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 |
|---|---|
| unfeminise | un- + feminise |
| unfeminised | un- + feminised |
| unfeminising | un- + feminising |
| unfended | un- + fended |
| unfenestral | un- + fenestral |
| unfermentableness | un- + fermentableness |
| unfermentably | un- + fermentably |
| unfermentative | un- + fermentative |
| unferreted | un- + ferreted |
| unferreting | un- + ferreting |
| unfertileness | un- + fertileness |
| unfertilisable | un- + fertilisable |
| unfertilising | un- + fertilising |
| unfertilizing | un- + fertilizing |
| unfervently | un- + fervently |
| unfervidly | un- + fervidly |
| unfester | un- + fester |
| unfestering | un- + festering |
| unfestival | un- + festival |
| unfeudally | un- + feudally |
| unfew | un- + few, not few |
| unfibbed | un- + fibbed |
| unfiber | un- + fiber |
| unfibered | un- + fibered |
| unfibred | un- + fibred (British spelling of fibered) |
| unfibrously | un- + fibrously |
| unfictitiously | un- + fictitiously |
| unfictitiousness | un- + fictitiousness |
| unfiducial | un- + fiducial |
| unfiend | un- + fiend |
| unfiendlike | un- + fiendlike |
| unfiercely | un- + fiercely |
| unfilm | un- + film, to strip a film from |
| unfimbriated | un- + fimbriated |
| unfineable | un- + fineable |
| unfinicalness | un- + finicalness |
| unfiscal | un- + fiscal |
| unfiscally | un- + fiscally |
| unfishing | un- + fishing |
| unfistulous | un- + fistulous |
| unfitty | un- + fitty (dialect, neat or fitting) |
| unfixative | un- + fixative |
| unflagitious | un- + flagitious |
| unflagrantly | un- + flagrantly |
| unflaking | un- + flaking |
| unflame | un- + flame |
| unflank | un- + flank |
| unflated | un- + flated (blown up), not inflated |
| unflatted | un- + flatted |
| unflaunting | un- + flaunting |
| unflauntingly | un- + flauntingly |
| unflavorous | un- + flavorous |
| unflavourous | un- + flavourous |
| unflead | un- + flead (flayed) |
| unfledge | un- + fledge |
| unflintify | un- + flintify |
| unflippantly | un- + flippantly |
| unflirtatiousness | un- + flirtatiousness |
| unflitched | un- + flitched |
| unflock | un- + flock |
| unfloor | un- + floor |
| unfloundering | un- + floundering |
| unfluctuant | un- + fluctuant |
| unfluently | un- + fluently |
| unfluked | un- + fluked |
| unflunked | un- + flunked |
| unfluvial | un- + fluvial |
| unfluxile | un- + fluxile (fusible) |
| unfoamed | un- + foamed |
| unfolden | un- + folden (archaic past participle of fold) |
| unfoldure | unfold + -ure, an unfolding |
| unfoodful | un- + foodful (yielding food) |
| unfoolishly | un- + foolishly |
| unfoolishness | un- + foolishness |
| unfootsore | un- + footsore |
| unforbade | un- + forbade |
| unforbidded | un- + forbidded (forbidden) |
| unforbiddenness | un- + forbiddenness |
| unforcibleness | un- + forcibleness |
| unforcing | un- + forcing |
| unfordableness | un- + fordableness |
| unforensically | un- + forensically |
| unforesee | un- + foresee |
| unforewarnedness | un- + forewarnedness |
| unforfeiting | un- + forfeiting |
| unforgetfully | un- + forgetfully |
| unforkedness | un- + forkedness |
| unformalistic | un- + formalistic |
| unformalness | un- + formalness |
| unformidableness | un- + formidableness |
| unformidably | un- + formidably |
| unformularizable | un- + formularizable |
| unformularize | un- + formularize |
| unfortuitousness | un- + fortuitousness |
| unforwardly | un- + forwardly |
| unfostering | un- + fostering |
| unfoughten | un- + foughten (archaic past participle of fight) |
| unfoully | un- + foully |
| unfoundering | un- + foundering |
| unfountained | un- + fountained |
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