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 |
|---|---|
| unfowllike | un- + fowllike |
| unfractiously | un- + fractiously |
| unfractiousness | un- + fractiousness |
| unframableness | un- + framableness |
| unframably | un- + framably |
| unfraternised | un- + fraternised |
| unfraternized | un- + fraternized |
| unfraudulently | un- + fraudulently |
| unfreakishness | un- + freakishness |
| unfreehold | un- + freehold |
| unfreeingly | un- + freeingly |
| unfreight | un- + freight, to unload |
| unfreighting | un- + freighting |
| unfrequentable | un- + frequentable |
| unfrequentative | un- + frequentative |
| unfrequentness | un- + frequentness |
| unfretfully | un- + fretfully |
| unfretty | un- + fretty (heraldry, covered with a fret) |
| unfriableness | un- + friableness |
| unfricative | un- + fricative |
| unfrictional | un- + frictional |
| unfrictionally | un- + frictionally |
| unfrictioned | un- + frictioned |
| unfrightenedness | un- + frightenedness |
| unfrigidity | un- + frigidity |
| unfrigidly | un- + frigidly |
| unfrigidness | un- + frigidness |
| unfringe | un- + fringe |
| unfringing | un- + fringing |
| unfrisking | un- + frisking |
| unfrittered | un- + frittered |
| unfrivolousness | un- + frivolousness |
| unfrizzly | un- + frizzly |
| unfrost | un- + frost |
| unfrothed | un- + frothed |
| unfrothing | un- + frothing |
| unfrounced | un- + frounced (curled or wrinkled) |
| unfrowardly | un- + frowardly |
| unfrugality | un- + frugality |
| unfrugalness | un- + frugalness |
| unfugal | un- + fugal |
| unfugally | un- + fugally |
| unfugitive | un- + fugitive |
| unfugitively | un- + fugitively |
| unfulgent | un- + fulgent |
| unfulgently | un- + fulgently |
| unfulminant | un- + fulminant |
| unfulminating | un- + fulminating |
| unfuming | un- + fuming |
| unfunctioning | un- + functioning |
| unfundamentally | un- + fundamentally |
| unfunereally | un- + funereally |
| unfungible | un- + fungible |
| unfusibility | un- + fusibility |
| unfusibleness | un- + fusibleness |
| unfusibly | un- + fusibly |
| ungaining | un- + gaining |
| ungainlike | un- + gainlike (handy), awkward |
| ungainsomely | un- + gainsomely (conveniently) |
| ungaited | un- + gaited |
| ungalleried | un- + galleried |
| ungalloping | un- + galloping |
| ungambled | un- + gambled |
| ungambling | un- + gambling |
| ungamboled | un- + gamboled |
| ungamboling | un- + gamboling |
| ungambolled | un- + gambolled |
| ungambolling | un- + gambolling |
| ungamy | un- + gamy |
| ungangrenous | un- + gangrenous |
| ungaping | un- + gaping |
| ungarrulously | un- + garrulously |
| ungarrulousness | un- + garrulousness |
| ungastric | un- + gastric |
| ungaudily | un- + gaudily |
| ungaudiness | un- + gaudiness |
| ungelatinous | un- + gelatinous |
| ungelatinously | un- + gelatinously |
| ungelatinousness | un- + gelatinousness |
| ungeneralising | un- + generalising |
| ungeneralizing | un- + generalizing |
| ungenerically | un- + generically |
| ungenitive | un- + genitive (grammar) |
| ungenitured | un- + genitured; Shakespeare, lacking generative power |
| ungenteely | un- + genteely (genteelly) |
| ungentilize | un- + gentilize |
| ungeodetic | un- + geodetic |
| ungeodetical | un- + geodetical |
| ungeodetically | un- + geodetically |
| ungeologically | un- + geologically |
| ungeometricalness | un- + geometricalness |
| ungerminant | un- + germinant |
| ungerminative | un- + germinative |
| ungermlike | un- + germlike |
| ungerontic | un- + gerontic |
| ungesticular | un- + gesticular |
| ungesticulating | un- + gesticulating |
| ungesticulative | un- + gesticulative |
| ungesticulatory | un- + gesticulatory |
| ungesting | un- + gesting (telling gests or tales) |
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