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 |
|---|---|
| unendemic | un- + endemic |
| unendowing | un- + endowing |
| unenforcedness | un- + enforcedness |
| unengagingness | un- + engagingness |
| unenglished | un- + englished |
| unenigmatically | un- + enigmatically |
| unenjoyableness | un- + enjoyableness |
| unenjoyably | un- + enjoyably |
| unenlarging | un- + enlarging |
| unenlightenment | un- + enlightenment |
| unensured | un- + ensured |
| unentering | un- + entering |
| unenterprised | un- + enterprised |
| unentertainingness | un- + entertainingness |
| unenticeable | un- + enticeable |
| unentitledness | un- + entitledness |
| unentitlement | un- + entitlement |
| unentrance | un- + entrance, to free from a trance |
| unentreatable | un- + entreatable |
| unentreating | un- + entreating |
| unenumerative | un- + enumerative |
| unenunciable | un- + enunciable |
| unenunciated | un- + enunciated |
| unenunciative | un- + enunciative |
| unenviedly | un- + enviedly |
| unenvyingly | un- + envyingly |
| unenwoven | un- + enwoven |
| unepauleted | un- + epauleted |
| unepauletted | un- + epauletted |
| unephemerally | un- + ephemerally |
| unepigrammatically | un- + epigrammatically |
| unepilogued | un- + epilogued |
| unepitomised | un- + epitomised |
| unepochal | un- + epochal |
| unequability | un- + equability |
| unequalise | un- + equalise |
| unequalised | un- + equalised |
| unequalising | un- + equalising |
| unequatorial | un- + equatorial |
| unequilaterally | un- + equilaterally |
| unequivalently | un- + equivalently |
| unequivocating | un- + equivocating |
| uneradicative | un- + eradicative |
| unerodent | un- + erodent |
| uneroding | un- + eroding |
| unerosive | un- + erosive |
| unerrantly | un- + errantly |
| unerroneousness | un- + erroneousness |
| unescaladed | un- + escaladed, not scaled by ladder |
| unescalloped | un- + escalloped |
| unescheatable | un- + escheatable |
| uneschewably | un- + eschewably |
| unespousable | un- + espousable |
| unestimableness | un- + estimableness |
| uneternized | un- + eternized |
| unethereally | un- + ethereally |
| unetherealness | un- + etherealness |
| unethnologic | un- + ethnologic |
| unethnologically | un- + ethnologically |
| unetymologic | un- + etymologic |
| uneugenical | un- + eugenical |
| uneugenically | un- + eugenically |
| uneuphemistical | un- + euphemistical |
| uneuphemistically | un- + euphemistically |
| unevading | un- + evading |
| unevanescently | un- + evanescently |
| unevangelically | un- + evangelically |
| unevaporate | un- + evaporate |
| unevaporative | un- + evaporative |
| unevasively | un- + evasively |
| unevasiveness | un- + evasiveness |
| uneversible | un- + eversible, not turnable outward |
| unevilly | un- + evilly |
| unevincible | un- + evincible |
| unevirated | un- + evirated (obsolete evirate, to unman) |
| unevocable | un- + evocable |
| unevolutional | un- + evolutional |
| unexacerbating | un- + exacerbating |
| unexactedly | un- + exactedly |
| unexactly | un- + exactly |
| unexaggerative | un- + exaggerative |
| unexaggeratory | un- + exaggeratory |
| unexcellently | un- + excellently |
| unexceptable | un- + exceptable (obsolete, open to exception) |
| unexceptionality | un- + exceptionality |
| unexcessively | un- + excessively |
| unexcessiveness | un- + excessiveness |
| unexchangeableness | un- + exchangeableness |
| unexcitableness | un- + excitableness |
| unexcogitative | un- + excogitative |
| unexcrescent | un- + excrescent |
| unexcrescently | un- + excrescently |
| unexculpable | un- + exculpable |
| unexculpably | un- + exculpably |
| unexcursively | un- + excursively |
| unexcusedness | un- + excusedness |
| unexecutorial | un- + executorial |
| unexemptable | un- + exemptable |
| unexempting | un- + exempting |
| unexercise | un- + exercise |
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