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 |
|---|---|
| unhazardousness | un- + hazardousness |
| unhazily | un- + hazily |
| unhaziness | un- + haziness |
| unheader | unhead + -er, one who unheads a cask |
| unhealableness | un- + healableness |
| unhealthsomeness | un- + healthsomeness |
| unhearse | un- + hearse, to take from a hearse |
| unhearsed | un- + hearsed |
| unhearten | un- + hearten |
| unhectically | un- + hectically |
| unhedonistically | un- + hedonistically |
| unheelpieced | un- + heelpieced (fitted with a heelpiece) |
| unheler | unhele (to uncover) + -er |
| unhende | un- + hende (Middle English, courteous) |
| unhent | un- + hent (seized) |
| unherbaceous | un- + herbaceous |
| unherd | un- + herd |
| unhermitic | un- + hermitic |
| unhermitical | un- + hermitical |
| unhermitically | un- + hermitically |
| unheroicalness | un- + heroicalness |
| unheroicness | un- + heroicness |
| unheroize | un- + heroize |
| unheuristically | un- + heuristically |
| unhidableness | un- + hidableness |
| unhidably | un- + hidably |
| unhideably | un- + hideably |
| unhideboundness | un- + hideboundness |
| unhideously | un- + hideously |
| unhideousness | un- + hideousness |
| unhieratically | un- + hieratically |
| unhilariously | un- + hilariously |
| unhilariousness | un- + hilariousness |
| unhinderingly | un- + hinderingly |
| unhoaxability | un- + hoaxability |
| unhomicidal | un- + homicidal |
| unhomiletic | un- + homiletic |
| unhomiletical | un- + homiletical |
| unhomiletically | un- + homiletically |
| unhomologic | un- + homologic |
| unhomological | un- + homological |
| unhomologically | un- + homologically |
| unhomologized | un- + homologized, not made homologous |
| unhoopable | un- + hoopable, not able to be hooped |
| unhooper | unhoop + -er, one who takes the hoops off |
| unhopedly | un- + hopedly, unexpectedly |
| unhopedness | un- + hopedness, state of being unhoped for |
| unhopingly | un- + hopingly, without hoping |
| unhorizontally | un- + horizontally |
| unhoroscopic | un- + horoscopic |
| unhortative | un- + hortative, not urging |
| unhortatively | un- + hortatively |
| unhose | un- + hose, to strip of hose or stockings |
| unhospital | un- + hospital, inhospitable |
| unhostileness | un- + hostileness |
| unhumane | un- + humane, not humane |
| unhumanely | un- + humanely |
| unhumaneness | un- + humaneness |
| unhumidifying | un- + humidifying |
| unhumiliatingly | un- + humiliatingly |
| unhuskable | un- + huskable, not able to be husked |
| unhutched | un- + hutched, not put in a hutch |
| unhuzzaed | un- + huzzaed, not cheered |
| unhydraulic | un- + hydraulic |
| unhydrolized | un- + hydrolized, older spelling of hydrolyzed |
| unhygrometric | un- + hygrometric |
| unhyphenable | un- + hyphenable |
| unhypnotically | un- + hypnotically |
| unhypnotise | un- + hypnotise, British -ise spelling |
| unhypnotising | un- + hypnotising |
| unhypothetically | un- + hypothetically |
| uniambically | un- + iambically, not in iambs |
| unicing | un- + icing, taking the ice or icing off |
| uniconoclastic | un- + iconoclastic |
| uniconoclastically | un- + iconoclastically |
| unidealistically | un- + idealistically |
| unideated | un- + ideated, not formed as an idea |
| unideating | un- + ideating |
| unideational | un- + ideational |
| unidentically | un- + identically |
| unidentifiedly | un- + identifiedly, in an unidentified way |
| unideographical | un- + ideographical |
| unideographically | un- + ideographically |
| unidleness | un- + idleness |
| unidling | un- + idling |
| unidly | un- + idly, not idly |
| unidolised | un- + idolised |
| uniformation | uniform + -ation, a making uniform |
| unigenistic | Unigenist + -ic, of the Unigenitus party |
| unigniting | un- + igniting |
| unignominiously | un- + ignominiously |
| unignominiousness | un- + ignominiousness |
| unignorantly | un- + ignorantly |
| unilludedly | un- + illudedly, without being deluded |
| unilluminant | un- + illuminant, giving no light |
| unilluminative | un- + illuminative |
| unillustriousness | un- + illustriousness |
| unimbibing | un- + imbibing |
| unimboldened | un- + imboldened, old form of emboldened |
| unimbordered | un- + imbordered, without a border |
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