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 |
|---|---|
| unpendent | un- + pendent, not overhanging |
| unpending | un- + pending |
| unpendulous | un- + pendulous |
| unpendulously | un- + pendulously |
| unpendulousness | un- + pendulousness |
| unpenetrably | un- + penetrably |
| unpenetrant | un- + penetrant |
| unpenetratingly | un- + penetratingly |
| unpenetratively | un- + penetratively |
| unpenitential | un- + penitential |
| unpenitentially | un- + penitentially |
| unpenitentness | un- + penitentness |
| unpennoned | un- + pennoned, flying no pennon |
| unpensionableness | un- + pensionableness |
| unpensioning | un- + pensioning |
| unpenuriously | un- + penuriously |
| unpenuriousness | un- + penuriousness |
| unperceivability | un- + perceivability |
| unperceptibleness | un- + perceptibleness |
| unperceptional | un- + perceptional |
| unperceptual | un- + perceptual |
| unperceptually | un- + perceptually |
| unperdurable | un- + perdurable, not lasting |
| unperdurably | un- + perdurably |
| unperemptorily | un- + peremptorily |
| unperemptoriness | un- + peremptoriness |
| unperfectedly | un- + perfectedly |
| unperfectible | un- + perfectible |
| unperfective | un- + perfective |
| unperfectively | un- + perfectively |
| unperfectiveness | un- + perfectiveness |
| unperfectly | un- + perfectly |
| unperfidiously | un- + perfidiously |
| unperfidiousness | un- + perfidiousness |
| unperforable | un- + perforable |
| unperforating | un- + perforating |
| unperforative | un- + perforative |
| unperformability | un- + performability |
| unperilously | un- + perilously |
| unperiodically | un- + periodically |
| unperipheral | un- + peripheral |
| unperipherally | un- + peripherally |
| unperiphrastically | un- + periphrastically |
| unperjuring | un- + perjuring |
| unpermeant | un- + permeant, not passing through |
| unpermeating | un- + permeating |
| unpermeative | un- + permeative |
| unpermissibly | un- + permissibly |
| unpermit | un- + permit, to withhold permission |
| unpermits | un- + permits |
| unpermitting | un- + permitting |
| unpermixed | un- + permixed, unmingled |
| unperniciously | un- + perniciously |
| unperpendicularly | un- + perpendicularly |
| unperpetuable | un- + perpetuable |
| unperpetuating | un- + perpetuating |
| unpersecuting | un- + persecuting |
| unpersecutive | un- + persecutive |
| unperseveringness | un- + perseveringness |
| unpersonalised | un- + personalised |
| unpersonalising | un- + personalising |
| unpersonalizing | un- + personalizing |
| unpersonally | un- + personally |
| unperspicuousness | un- + perspicuousness |
| unperspired | un- + perspired |
| unpersuadability | un- + persuadability |
| unpersuasibility | un- + persuasibility |
| unpersuasibleness | un- + persuasibleness |
| unpertinently | un- + pertinently |
| unperturbing | un- + perturbing |
| unperusable | un- + perusable |
| unpervading | un- + pervading |
| unpervasive | un- + pervasive |
| unpervasively | un- + pervasively |
| unpervasiveness | un- + pervasiveness |
| unperversely | un- + perversely |
| unperversive | un- + perversive |
| unpervertedly | un- + pervertedly |
| unperviously | un- + perviously |
| unperviousness | un- + perviousness |
| unpesterous | un- + pesterous, not troublesome |
| unpestilent | un- + pestilent |
| unpestilently | un- + pestilently |
| unpetulantly | un- + petulantly |
| unphenomenally | un- + phenomenally |
| unphilologic | un- + philologic |
| unphlegmatical | un- + phlegmatical |
| unphonographed | un- + phonographed, not recorded |
| unphosphatised | un- + phosphatised |
| unphotographic | un- + photographic |
| unphrasableness | un- + phrasableness |
| unphysicianlike | un- + physicianlike |
| unpictorialise | un- + pictorialise |
| unpictorialised | un- + pictorialised |
| unpictorialising | un- + pictorialising |
| unpictorialize | un- + pictorialize |
| unpictorialized | un- + pictorialized |
| unpictorializing | un- + pictorializing |
| unpioneering | un- + pioneering |
| unpiously | un- + piously |
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