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 |
|---|---|
| anthesteriac | Anthesteria + -ac, of the Athenian festival |
| anthracitiferous | anthracite + -iferous |
| anthracitious | anthracite + -ious |
| antiagglutinant | anti- + agglutinant |
| antiagglutination | anti- + agglutination |
| antiagglutinative | anti- + agglutinative |
| antiaggressively | anti- + aggressively |
| antiaggressiveness | anti- + aggressiveness |
| antiangular | anti- + angular |
| antiapostle | anti- + apostle |
| antiaristocracies | anti- + aristocracies |
| antiaristocratical | anti- + aristocratical |
| antiaristocratically | anti- + aristocratically |
| antiastronomical | anti- + astronomical |
| antiatheistical | anti- + atheistical |
| antiatheistically | anti- + atheistically |
| antibalm | anti- + balm |
| antibasilican | anti- + basilican |
| antibibliolatry | anti- + bibliolatry |
| antibridal | anti- + bridal |
| anticalcimine | anti- + calcimine |
| anticapitalistically | anti- + capitalistically |
| anticardiac | anti- + cardiac |
| anticatalytically | anti- + catalytically |
| anticaustic | anti- + caustic |
| anticensorial | anti- + censorial |
| anticensorious | anti- + censorious |
| anticensoriously | anti- + censoriously |
| anticensoriousness | anti- + censoriousness |
| anticentralism | anti- + centralism |
| anticentralist | anti- + centralist |
| anticeremonially | anti- + ceremonially |
| anticeremonious | anti- + ceremonious |
| anticeremoniously | anti- + ceremoniously |
| anticeremoniousness | anti- + ceremoniousness |
| antichance | anti- + chance |
| anticheater | anti- + cheater |
| antichorus | anti- + chorus |
| antichrome | anti- + chrome |
| antichronically | anti- + chronically |
| antichurchian | anti- + church + -ian |
| anticivilian | anti- + civilian |
| anticlassicalism | anti- + classicalism |
| anticlassicalist | anti- + classicalist |
| anticlassically | anti- + classically |
| anticlassicalness | anti- + classicalness |
| anticoagulator | anti- + coagulator |
| anticogitative | anti- + cogitative |
| anticolic | anti- + colic |
| anticomet | anti- + comet |
| anticomment | anti- + comment |
| anticommercialist | anti- + commercialist |
| anticommercialistic | anti- + commercialistic |
| anticommerciality | anti- + commerciality |
| anticommercially | anti- + commercially |
| anticommercialness | anti- + commercialness |
| anticommunistical | anti- + communistical |
| anticommunistically | anti- + communistically |
| anticomplex | anti- + complex |
| anticonductor | anti- + conductor |
| anticonfederationism | anti- + confederationism |
| anticonfederative | anti- + confederative |
| anticonformities | anti- + conformities |
| anticonscience | anti- + conscience |
| anticonscriptive | anti- + conscriptive |
| anticonservatism | anti- + conservatism |
| anticonservatively | anti- + conservatively |
| anticonstitutionalism | anti- + constitutionalism |
| anticontagiously | anti- + contagiously |
| anticontagiousness | anti- + contagiousness |
| anticonvention | anti- + convention |
| anticonventionalist | anti- + conventionalist |
| anticonventionally | anti- + conventionally |
| anticorn | anti- + corn (as in anti-Corn-Law) |
| anticorrosively | anti- + corrosively |
| anticorrosiveness | anti- + corrosiveness |
| anticosmetics | anti- + cosmetics |
| anticreational | anti- + creational |
| anticreatively | anti- + creatively |
| anticreativeness | anti- + creativeness |
| anticreep | anti- + creep (rail device preventing creep) |
| anticreeper | anti- + creeper |
| anticreeping | anti- + creeping |
| anticrepuscular | anti- + crepuscular (antitwilight) |
| anticrepuscule | anti- + crepuscule |
| anticritically | anti- + critically |
| anticriticalness | anti- + criticalness |
| anticrochet | anti- + crochet |
| anticryptically | anti- + cryptically |
| anticyclically | anti- + cyclically |
| anticynic | anti- + cynic |
| anticynical | anti- + cynical |
| anticynically | anti- + cynically |
| anticynicism | anti- + cynicism |
| antidecalogue | anti- + decalogue |
| antidemocracies | anti- + democracies |
| antidiffuser | anti- + diffuser |
| antidogmatical | anti- + dogmatical |
| antidogmatically | anti- + dogmatically |
| antidogmatist | anti- + dogmatist |
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