Real Words Without Definition
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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 |
|---|---|
| vassalless | vassal + -less, having no vassals |
| vaticanical | Vatican + -ical, of the Vatican |
| vaticinatress | vaticinator + -ess, a prophetess |
| vaudism | Vaudois + -ism, Waldensianism |
| vauntiness | vaunty + -ness, boastfulness |
| vegetablewise | vegetable + -wise |
| vegetationally | vegetational + -ly |
| veldtsman | veldt + -s- + man, a man of the veld |
| vellincher | vellinch + -er, one who uses a valinch |
| vendibly | vendible + -ly |
| veneficness | venefic + -ness, poisoning or sorcery |
| venenately | venenate + -ly, poisonously |
| venenousness | venenous + -ness, poisonousness |
| venerativeness | venerative + -ness |
| venerealness | venereal + -ness |
| vengeancely | vengeance + -ly, extremely (obsolete) |
| vengeously | vengeous + -ly, revengefully |
| venisonivorous | venison + -ivorous, venison-eating |
| venomly | venom + -ly, venomously |
| venomness | venom + -ness, venomousness |
| venosal | venose + -al, of the veins |
| venousness | venous + -ness |
| ventoseness | ventose + -ness, windiness |
| ventripotence | ventripotent + -ence, big-belliedness |
| ventripotency | ventripotent + -ency, gluttony |
| verbenate | verbena + -ate, to strew with sacred boughs |
| verberative | verberate (to beat) + -ive, given to striking |
| verdugoship | verdugo (hangman) + -ship, the office of executioner |
| verecundness | verecund (bashful) + -ness |
| vergentness | vergent (inclining) + -ness |
| vergerless | verger + -less |
| vermicularly | vermicular + -ly |
| vermiculosity | vermiculose + -ity, wormy condition |
| vermilinguial | Vermilinguia + -al, of the anteaters |
| verminal | vermin + -al, of or like vermin |
| verminousness | verminous + -ness |
| vermiparousness | vermiparous + -ness, producing worms |
| vermivorousness | vermivorous + -ness, worm-eating |
| verriculated | verriculate + -ed, set with close brush-like bristles |
| verrucoseness | verrucose + -ness, wartiness |
| versableness | versable + -ness, capacity for being turned |
| versative | versate (to turn) + -ive, having a turning quality |
| verseward | verse + -ward, toward verse |
| versicler | versicle + -er, a writer of versicles |
| versifiaster | versifier + -aster, a paltry versifier |
| versiloquy | versi- (verse) + -loquy, speaking in verse |
| vertibleness | vertible (turnable) + -ness |
| verticordious | Latin verticordia (heart-turning) + -ous |
| vervainlike | vervain + -like |
| vervecean | Latin vervex (wether) + -ean, of sheep |
| vestmentary | vestment + -ary, relating to vestments |
| vestralization | vestral (of a vestry) + -ization, government by vestry |
| vestrical | vestry + -ical, of a vestry |
| vestrification | vestrify + -ication, turning into a vestry |
| vestrify | vestry + -ify, to make into a vestry |
| vestryhood | vestry + -hood |
| vestryish | vestry + -ish |
| vestryize | vestry + -ize |
| vestrymanly | vestryman + -ly |
| vetchlike | vetch + -like |
| vexillarious | vexillary + -ous, of a standard-bearer |
| viableness | viable + -ness |
| viandry | viand + -ry, provisions collectively |
| vibratiunculation | vibratiuncle (a minute vibration) + -ation |
| vicariateship | vicariate + -ship |
| vicety | vice + -ty, viciousness |
| viceversally | vice versa + -lly, conversely |
| vicissitudinousness | vicissitudinous + -ness |
| victless | vict- (victual) + -less, without food |
| victordom | victor + -dom |
| vidually | vidual (of widowhood) + -ly |
| viewlessness | viewless + -ness |
| viewster | view + -ster, one who views |
| viewworthy | view + -worthy, worth seeing |
| vigintiangular | viginti- (twenty) + angular, twenty-angled |
| vigorist | vigor + -ist, one who insists on vigor |
| vilipendious | vilipend (to disparage) + -ious |
| vilipenditory | vilipend + -itory, disparaging |
| villaette | villa + -ette, a small villa |
| villagelet | village + -let, a small village |
| villagy | village + -y, villagelike |
| villainist | villain + -ist |
| villeinhold | villein + -hold, land held in villeinage |
| vindicableness | vindicable + -ness |
| vindicably | vindicable + -ly |
| vindicatorship | vindicator + -ship |
| vintnership | vintner + -ship |
| violetwise | violet + -wise, after the manner of a violet |
| violinless | violin + -less |
| viperan | viper + -an, of vipers |
| viperian | viper + -ian, viperous |
| viragoship | virago + -ship |
| virginityship | virginity + -ship |
| virific | Latin vir (man) + -ific, making manly |
| virify | Latin vir (man) + -ify, to make manly |
| virilist | virile + -ist, one who upholds virility |
| virilocally | virilocal + -ly, anthropology, with the husband's kin |
| virtuless | virtue + -less, in the older e-less spelling |
| virtuouslike | virtuous + -like |
| viscidulous | viscid + -ulous, somewhat sticky |
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