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 |
|---|---|
| uncountess | un- + countess, to strip of that rank |
| uncouthie | un- + couthie (Scots, kindly) |
| uncouthsome | uncouth + -some |
| uncovenant | un- + covenant |
| uncoveredly | un- + coveredly |
| uncovetingly | un- + covetingly |
| uncow | un- + cow, to free from being cowed |
| uncoyly | un- + coyly |
| uncoyness | un- + coyness |
| uncraggy | un- + craggy |
| uncrampedness | un- + crampedness |
| uncream | un- + cream, to take the cream off |
| uncredulously | un- + credulously |
| uncredulousness | un- + credulousness |
| uncreeping | un- + creeping |
| uncrest | un- + crest, to strip of a crest |
| uncringing | un- + cringing |
| uncriticisably | un- + criticisably |
| uncriticism | un- + criticism |
| uncriticizably | un- + criticizably |
| uncrochety | un- + crochety (whimsical) |
| uncrookedly | un- + crookedly |
| uncrossly | un- + crossly |
| uncrudded | un- + crudded (crud, to curdle) |
| uncrudely | un- + crudely |
| uncrudeness | un- + crudeness |
| uncrudity | un- + crudity |
| uncruelly | un- + cruelly |
| uncruelness | un- + cruelness |
| uncrystaled | un- + crystaled |
| uncrystalled | un- + crystalled |
| uncubic | un- + cubic |
| uncubical | un- + cubical |
| uncubically | un- + cubically |
| uncubicalness | un- + cubicalness |
| uncullibility | un- + cullibility (gullibility) |
| uncullible | un- + cullible (gullible) |
| uncumbrously | un- + cumbrously |
| uncumbrousness | un- + cumbrousness |
| uncumulative | un- + cumulative |
| uncunningness | un- + cunningness |
| uncurbedly | un- + curbedly |
| uncurbing | un- + curbing |
| uncurd | un- + curd, to break up curd |
| uncurrently | un- + currently |
| uncurrentness | un- + currentness |
| uncurtailably | un- + curtailably |
| uncurving | un- + curving |
| uncuticulate | un- + cuticulate, without a cuticle |
| uncypress | un- + cypress, to strip of mourning crape |
| undaggled | un- + daggled (trailed in mud) |
| undaily | un- + daily |
| undaintily | un- + daintily |
| undamnified | un- + damnified (injured) |
| undampable | un- + dampable |
| undandiacal | un- + dandiacal |
| undangerously | un- + dangerously |
| undaringly | un- + daringly |
| undark | un- + dark |
| undaub | un- + daub |
| undaughter | un- + daughter, to disown as a daughter |
| undazing | un- + dazing |
| undeadlocked | un- + deadlocked |
| undebauchedness | un- + debauchedness |
| undebilitative | un- + debilitative |
| undebited | un- + debited |
| undecadently | un- + decadently |
| undecayableness | un- + decayableness |
| undecayedness | un- + decayedness |
| undeceitfulness | un- + deceitfulness |
| undeceivability | un- + deceivability |
| undeceptious | un- + deceptious (deceitful) |
| undeceptitious | un- + deceptitious |
| undeceptiveness | un- + deceptiveness |
| undeclaiming | un- + declaiming |
| undeclarative | un- + declarative |
| undeclinableness | un- + declinableness |
| undecreasingly | un- + decreasingly |
| undecrepit | un- + decrepit |
| undecretive | un- + decretive |
| undecretory | un- + decretory |
| undeductible | un- + deductible |
| undeductively | un- + deductively |
| undeepened | un- + deepened |
| undeeply | un- + deeply |
| undefamatory | un- + defamatory |
| undefaming | un- + defaming |
| undefeat | un- + defeat |
| undefectively | un- + defectively |
| undefendableness | un- + defendableness |
| undefendant | un- + defendant |
| undefending | un- + defending |
| undefense | un- + defense |
| undefensibleness | un- + defensibleness |
| undefensibly | un- + defensibly |
| undefensiveness | un- + defensiveness |
| undeferrably | un- + deferrably |
| undefiably | un- + defiably, not to be defied |
| undefiantly | un- + defiantly |
| undeficiently | un- + deficiently |
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