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 |
|---|---|
| undefiniteness | un- + definiteness |
| undefinitively | un- + definitively |
| undefinitiveness | un- + definitiveness |
| undeflectability | un- + deflectability |
| undeflective | un- + deflective |
| undeformedness | un- + deformedness |
| undeftly | un- + deftly |
| undeftness | un- + deftness |
| undegenerateness | un- + degenerateness |
| undegenerative | un- + degenerative |
| undeistical | un- + deistical |
| undejectedly | un- + dejectedly |
| undejectedness | un- + dejectedness |
| undelated | un- + delated (delate, to report or accuse) |
| undelectability | un- + delectability |
| undeleteriously | un- + deleteriously |
| undeleteriousness | un- + deleteriousness |
| undeliberatingly | un- + deliberatingly |
| undeliberatively | un- + deliberatively |
| undeliberativeness | un- + deliberativeness |
| undeliciously | un- + deliciously |
| undelightedly | un- + delightedly |
| undelineable | un- + delineable |
| undelineative | un- + delineative |
| undelinquent | un- + delinquent |
| undelinquently | un- + delinquently |
| undeliriously | un- + deliriously |
| undelivery | un- + delivery |
| undeludedly | un- + deludedly |
| undelusively | un- + delusively |
| undelusiveness | un- + delusiveness |
| undelusory | un- + delusory |
| undemonstrableness | un- + demonstrableness |
| undemonstrational | un- + demonstrational |
| undemurely | un- + demurely |
| undemureness | un- + demureness |
| undenotative | un- + denotative |
| undenotatively | un- + denotatively |
| undenunciated | un- + denunciated |
| undenunciatory | un- + denunciatory |
| undepartableness | un- + departableness |
| undepartably | un- + departably, inseparably |
| undeprecating | un- + deprecating |
| undeprecatingly | un- + deprecatingly |
| undeprecative | un- + deprecative |
| undeprecatively | un- + deprecatively |
| undepreciable | un- + depreciable |
| undepreciative | un- + depreciative |
| undepreciatory | un- + depreciatory |
| undepressive | un- + depressive |
| undepressively | un- + depressively |
| undepressiveness | un- + depressiveness |
| underabyss | under- + abyss |
| underaccident | under- + accident, a subordinate accident |
| underadmiral | under- + admiral |
| underadventurer | under- + adventurer |
| underagency | under- + agency |
| underaim | under- + aim, to aim too low |
| underair | under- + air, the air below |
| underalderman | under- + alderman |
| underaldermen | under- + aldermen |
| underbalance | under- + balance |
| underbalancing | under- + balancing |
| underbank | under- + bank |
| underbarber | under- + barber, an assistant barber |
| underbasal | under- + basal |
| underbeak | under- + beak, the lower mandible |
| underbeam | under- + beam |
| underbedding | under- + bedding |
| underbeing | under- + being, a lower order of being |
| underbeveling | under- + beveling |
| underbevelling | under- + bevelling |
| underbillow | under- + billow |
| underbishop | under- + bishop, a suffragan |
| underbishopric | under- + bishopric |
| underbitted | under- + bitted, ear-marked from below |
| underboated | under- + boated, short of boats |
| underboom | under- + boom |
| underborn | under- + born, of low birth |
| underbough | under- + bough |
| underbowed | under- + bowed |
| underbowser | under- + bowser, an assistant bowser |
| underbox | under- + box |
| underboy | under- + boy, a junior or subordinate boy |
| underbridged | under- + bridged |
| underbridging | under- + bridging |
| underbrigadier | under- + brigadier, a junior brigadier |
| underbubble | under- + bubble |
| underbud | under- + bud, to bud beneath |
| underbudded | under- + budded |
| underbudding | under- + budding |
| underbuds | under- + buds |
| underbuoy | under- + buoy |
| underbursar | under- + bursar, an assistant bursar |
| undercanvass | under- + canvass |
| undercap | under- + cap, a cap worn beneath |
| undercarder | under- + carder, a subordinate wool carder |
| undercarried | under- + carried |
| undercarry | under- + carry |
| undercarrying | under- + carrying |
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