Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
A normal word with something added to the front or the back.
You can read these without being told what they mean. lifehood is life plus -hood. citydom is city plus -dom. musicproof is music plus -proof. Around 21,753 words in the list carry a prefix like un-, non-, over- or anti-.
Nothing is wrong with them. No dictionary bothered to list them because the meaning is obvious from the parts.
24,323 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| unbumptiously | un- + bumptiously |
| unbumptiousness | un- + bumptiousness |
| unburgessed | un- + burgessed, without burgesses |
| unburglarized | un- + burglarized |
| unburnableness | un- + burnableness |
| unburstableness | un- + burstableness |
| unbush | un- + bush, to clear of bushes |
| unbusiness | un- + business, not businesslike |
| unbusk | un- + busk, to remove a corset busk |
| unbuskin | un- + buskin, to take off the buskins |
| unbuttonment | un- + buttonment, an unbuttoning |
| unbuxomly | un- + buxomly |
| unbuyableness | un- + buyableness |
| uncacophonous | un- + cacophonous |
| uncajoling | un- + cajoling |
| uncalamitously | un- + calamitously |
| uncalculableness | un- + calculableness |
| uncalculatedly | un- + calculatedly |
| uncalculatedness | un- + calculatedness |
| uncalculative | un- + calculative |
| uncall | un- + call, to retract a call |
| uncallously | un- + callously |
| uncallousness | un- + callousness |
| uncallower | un- + callow + -er |
| uncalmative | un- + calmative |
| uncalorific | un- + calorific |
| uncalumniative | un- + calumniative |
| uncalumnious | un- + calumnious |
| uncalumniously | un- + calumniously |
| uncamerated | un- + camerated, not vaulted |
| uncampaigning | un- + campaigning |
| uncanonicity | un- + canonicity |
| uncanonisation | un- + canonisation |
| uncanonization | un- + canonization |
| uncantoned | un- + cantoned |
| uncantonized | un- + cantonized |
| uncanvassably | un- + canvassably |
| uncapably | un- + capably |
| uncapaciously | un- + capaciously |
| uncapaciousness | un- + capaciousness |
| uncapacitate | un- + capacitate |
| uncapering | un- + capering |
| uncapriciously | un- + capriciously |
| uncapriciousness | un- + capriciousness |
| uncapsuled | un- + capsuled |
| uncaptiously | un- + captiously |
| uncaptiousness | un- + captiousness |
| uncaptivate | un- + captivate |
| uncaptivative | un- + captivative |
| uncaramelised | un- + caramelised |
| uncarboned | un- + carboned |
| uncardinally | un- + cardinally |
| uncaressing | un- + caressing |
| uncaressingly | un- + caressingly |
| uncarnivorously | un- + carnivorously |
| uncarnivorousness | un- + carnivorousness |
| uncaroled | un- + caroled |
| uncarolled | un- + carolled |
| uncarousing | un- + carousing |
| uncartooned | un- + cartooned |
| uncascading | un- + cascading |
| uncaste | un- + caste, without caste |
| uncastigative | un- + castigative |
| uncasualness | un- + casualness |
| uncatastrophically | un- + catastrophically |
| uncatechisedness | un- + catechisedness |
| uncatechizedness | un- + catechizedness |
| uncategoricalness | un- + categoricalness |
| uncatenated | un- + catenated, not chained together |
| uncatering | un- + catering |
| uncathedraled | un- + cathedraled |
| uncatholical | un- + catholical |
| uncatholicalness | un- + catholicalness |
| uncatholicly | un- + catholicly |
| uncaucusable | un- + caucusable |
| uncausable | un- + causable |
| uncausatively | un- + causatively |
| uncausativeness | un- + causativeness |
| uncaustic | un- + caustic |
| uncaustically | un- + caustically |
| uncautelous | un- + cautelous, not wary or crafty |
| uncave | un- + cave, to bring out of a cave |
| uncavernous | un- + cavernous |
| uncavernously | un- + cavernously |
| uncaviling | un- + caviling |
| uncavilling | un- + cavilling |
| uncavitied | un- + cavitied, without cavities |
| uncelestialized | un- + celestialized |
| uncelibate | un- + celibate |
| uncellar | un- + cellar, to take out of a cellar |
| uncensurability | un- + censurability |
| uncensurableness | un- + censurableness |
| uncentric | un- + centric |
| uncentrical | un- + centrical |
| uncentripetal | un- + centripetal |
| uncephalic | un- + cephalic |
| uncerated | un- + cerated, not waxed |
| uncerebric | un- + cerebric |
| uncereclothed | un- + cereclothed, not wrapped in cerecloth |
| unceriferous | un- + ceriferous, not wax-bearing |
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