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
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| Word, sorted Z to A | How it is built |
|---|---|
| viscometrical | viscometric + -al |
| viscontial | Visconti + -al, of the Milanese Visconti |
| visitative | visit + -ative, inclined to visit |
| visitoress | visitor + -ess, a female visitor |
| visory | visor + -y, of or like a visor |
| vitaminization | vitamin + -ization, fortifying with vitamins |
| vitaminologist | vitaminology + -ist |
| vitiable | vitiate + -able, capable of being vitiated |
| vitrailist | vitrail (stained glass) + -ist, a stained-glass artist |
| vitrescibility | vitrescible + -ity, capacity for being made into glass |
| vitriolizer | vitriolize + -er |
| vituperance | vituper + -ance, abuse |
| vitupery | vituper + -y, abuse |
| vivifical | vivific + -al, life-giving |
| vizardless | vizard + -less, without a mask |
| vizardlike | vizard + -like |
| vocably | vocable + -ly, in words, orally |
| vocalizable | vocalize + -able |
| vocicultural | voci- (voice) + cultural, of voice training |
| volantly | volant + -ly, flyingly |
| volapuker | Volapük + -er, a speaker of Volapük |
| volapukism | Volapük + -ism |
| volapukist | Volapük + -ist |
| volational | volation + -al, of flying |
| volcanologize | volcanology + -ize, to study volcanoes |
| volently | volent (exercising will) + -ly, willingly |
| volipresent | voli- (will) + present, present by an act of will |
| volleyingly | volleying + -ly |
| volplanist | volplane + -ist, one who volplanes, a glider pilot |
| voltairianize | Voltairian + -ize |
| voltize | volt + -ize, to subject to voltage |
| voluntarious | voluntar(y) + -ious, willful |
| vomitiveness | vomitive + -ness |
| votally | votal (of a vow) + -ly |
| vouchable | vouch + -able |
| voucherable | voucher + -able |
| voucheress | voucher + -ess, a female voucher |
| vulcanalial | Vulcanalia + -al, of the Roman festival of Vulcan |
| vulcanalian | Vulcanalia + -an, of the festival of Vulcan |
| vulgarlike | vulgar + -like |
| vulgarwise | vulgar + -wise, in the vulgar manner |
| vulnifical | vulnific + -al, inflicting wounds |
| wabbliness | wabbly + -ness, variant of wobbliness |
| wabblingly | wabbling + -ly |
| wafflike | waff (a puff, a glimpse) + -like |
| waffness | waff (Scots, worthless) + -ness |
| waggably | waggable + -ly |
| wagglingly | waggling + -ly |
| waggonable | waggon + -able, that can be carried by waggon |
| waglike | wag (a joker) + -like |
| wainer | wain + -er, one who drives a wain |
| waitressless | waitress + -less |
| wakerifeness | wakerife (Scots, wakeful) + -ness |
| waky | wake + -y, wakeful |
| waldgravine | waldgrave + -ine, the wife of a waldgrave |
| wallowishly | wallowish (insipid) + -ly |
| wallowishness | wallowish (insipid) + -ness |
| wallwise | wall + -wise |
| wanely | wane + -ly, scantily, defectively |
| wangrace | wan- (privative) + grace, gracelessness |
| wankliness | wankly (dialect, unsteady) + -ness |
| wanruly | wan- (privative) + ruly, unruly |
| wanshape | wan- (privative) + shape, misshapenness |
| wansome | wan- (privative) + -some, troublesome |
| wantonlike | wanton + -like |
| wanwit | wan- (privative) + wit, a witless person |
| warderer | warder + -er, one who wards or guards |
| wareship | ware (cautious) + -ship, wariness |
| wariance | wary + -ance, wariness |
| warmedly | warmed + -ly |
| warmthlessness | warmthless + -ness |
| warnage | warn + -age, the act of warning |
| warrer | war + -er, one who wars |
| warriorwise | warrior + -wise |
| warsler | warsle (Scots, to wrestle) + -er |
| waspen | wasp + -en, of or like a wasp |
| wassailous | wassail + -ous, festive |
| wastely | waste + -ly, wastefully |
| wastement | waste + -ment, a wasting |
| wasterfully | wasterful (Scots, wasteful) + -ly |
| wasterfulness | wasterful (Scots, wasteful) + -ness |
| wastern | waste + -ern, of or like a waste |
| watchment | watch + -ment, the act of watching |
| watchwise | watch + -wise |
| wateringly | watering + -ly |
| waterlogger | waterlog + -er, one that waterlogs |
| wavably | wavable + -ly |
| wavement | wave + -ment, a waving |
| waxingly | waxing + -ly |
| wayfaringly | wayfaring + -ly |
| waylaidlessness | waylaidless + -ness, freedom from ambush |
| wazirate | wazir + -ate, the office of a wazir |
| weakishly | weakish + -ly |
| wealsome | weal + -some, beneficial |
| weanyer | wean + -yer, one who weans (cf. sawyer) |
| weariableness | weariable + -ness |
| wearishly | wearish (sickly, insipid) + -ly |
| weaselship | weasel + -ship |
| weaselwise | weasel + -wise |
| weathercockism | weathercock + -ism, fickleness |
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