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 |
|---|---|
| undertenter | under- + tenter, an assistant tenter |
| undertenure | under- + tenure, a subordinate tenure |
| underterrestrial | under- + terrestrial, beneath the earth |
| underthane | under- + thane, a subordinate thane |
| underthaw | under- + thaw, to thaw from beneath |
| underthief | under- + thief, an accomplice thief |
| underthirst | under- + thirst, an underlying thirst |
| underthroating | under- + throating, a drip groove below a sill |
| underthrob | under- + throb, a throb felt beneath |
| undertided | under- + tided |
| undertied | under- + tied, tied beneath |
| undertitle | under- + title, a secondary title |
| undertrade | under- + trade, to trade below the market |
| undertraded | under- + traded |
| undertrader | under- + trader, a petty trader |
| undertrading | under- + trading |
| undertread | under- + tread, to tread underfoot |
| undertruck | under- + truck, a truck beneath |
| undertruss | under- + truss, a truss beneath |
| undertub | under- + tub, a tub placed beneath |
| undertune | under- + tune, to tune too low |
| undertuned | under- + tuned |
| undertuning | under- + tuning |
| underturf | under- + turf, beneath the turf |
| undertying | under- + tying |
| undervalve | under- + valve, a lower valve |
| undervassal | under- + vassal, a subordinate vassal |
| undervaulted | under- + vaulted, vaulted beneath |
| undervaulting | under- + vaulting, vaulting below |
| underventilating | under- + ventilating |
| undervillain | under- + villain, a lesser villain |
| undervinedresser | under- + vinedresser, an assistant vinedresser |
| undervocabularied | under- + vocabularied, of scant vocabulary |
| underwaist | under- + waist, a bodice worn beneath |
| underwaistcoat | under- + waistcoat |
| underwaists | under- + waists, plural |
| underwalk | under- + walk, to walk beneath |
| underward | under- + ward, a subordinate ward |
| underwarmth | under- + warmth, a latent warmth |
| underwarp | under- + warp, the lower warp |
| underwatch | under- + watch, a subordinate watch |
| underwatcher | under- + watcher, an assistant watchman |
| underwave | under- + wave, a wave below the surface |
| underwaving | under- + waving |
| underweapon | under- + weapon, a secondary weapon |
| underweft | under- + weft, the lower weft in weaving |
| underwheel | under- + wheel, a lower wheel |
| underwhistle | under- + whistle, a low whistle |
| underwitch | under- + witch, a subordinate witch |
| underyield | under- + yield, to yield too little |
| underzealot | under- + zealot, a lesser zealot |
| underzealous | under- + zealous, insufficiently zealous |
| underzealously | under- + zealously |
| underzealousness | under- + zealousness |
| undescendable | un- + descendable |
| undescendent | un- + descendent |
| undescendible | un- + descendible |
| undescending | un- + descending |
| undesert | un- + desert, lack of merit |
| undesiccated | un- + desiccated |
| undesignative | un- + designative |
| undespaired | un- + despaired |
| undespotically | un- + despotically |
| undestitute | un- + destitute |
| undestructibleness | un- + destructibleness |
| undestructibly | un- + destructibly (archaic for indestructibly) |
| undestructiveness | un- + destructiveness |
| undetachment | un- + detachment |
| undeteriorative | un- + deteriorative |
| undeterminableness | un- + determinableness |
| undeterminably | un- + determinably |
| undeterminedly | un- + determinedly |
| undeterrability | un- + deterrability |
| undetestability | un- + detestability |
| undetestableness | un- + detestableness |
| undetestably | un- + detestably |
| undetracting | un- + detracting |
| undetractingly | un- + detractingly |
| undetractive | un- + detractive |
| undetractively | un- + detractively |
| undetractory | un- + detractory |
| undetrimentally | un- + detrimentally |
| undevastatingly | un- + devastatingly |
| undevelopmental | un- + developmental |
| undevelopmentally | un- + developmentally |
| undeviation | un- + deviation |
| undewily | un- + dewily |
| undewiness | un- + dewiness |
| undexterousness | un- + dexterousness |
| undextrousness | un- + dextrousness (dexterousness variant) |
| undiabetic | un- + diabetic |
| undiagramed | un- + diagramed |
| undiagrammatic | un- + diagrammatic |
| undiagrammatical | un- + diagrammatical |
| undiagrammatically | un- + diagrammatically |
| undiametric | un- + diametric |
| undiametrical | un- + diametrical |
| undiametrically | un- + diametrically |
| undiaphanously | un- + diaphanously |
| undiaphanousness | un- + diaphanousness |
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