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 |
|---|---|
| overscurf | over- + scurf, to cover with scurf |
| overscutched | over- + scutched, much-beaten, worn out |
| overseated | over- + seated |
| oversecurely | over- + securely |
| oversecurity | over- + security |
| oversensibility | over- + sensibility |
| oversensibleness | over- + sensibleness |
| oversensibly | over- + sensibly |
| oversensitize | over- + sensitize |
| oversensitizing | over- + sensitizing |
| overserene | over- + serene |
| overserenely | over- + serenely |
| overserenity | over- + serenity |
| overservilely | over- + servilely |
| overservileness | over- + servileness |
| overservility | over- + servility |
| oversettle | over- + settle |
| oversettled | over- + settled |
| oversettlement | over- + settlement |
| oversettling | over- + settling |
| oversevereness | over- + severeness |
| overshelving | over- + shelving |
| overshined | over- + shined |
| overshortly | over- + shortly |
| overshortness | over- + shortness |
| overshoulder | over- + shoulder |
| oversilence | over- + silence |
| oversilently | over- + silently |
| oversilentness | over- + silentness |
| oversimpleness | over- + simpleness |
| overskeptically | over- + skeptically |
| overskepticalness | over- + skepticalness |
| overskipper | over- + skipper, one who overskips |
| overslander | over- + slander |
| overslavishness | over- + slavishness |
| overslidden | over- + slidden, past participle of overslide |
| overslope | over- + slope |
| overslowly | over- + slowly |
| overslur | over- + slur |
| oversmite | over- + smite |
| oversmitten | over- + smitten |
| oversoap | over- + soap |
| oversocial | over- + social |
| oversocially | over- + socially |
| oversolemnness | over- + solemnness |
| oversolidification | over- + solidification |
| oversolidified | over- + solidified |
| oversolidify | over- + solidify |
| oversolidifying | over- + solidifying |
| oversoothingly | over- + soothingly |
| oversorrowful | over- + sorrowful |
| oversorrowfully | over- + sorrowfully |
| oversorrowfulness | over- + sorrowfulness |
| oversound | over- + sound |
| oversourly | over- + sourly |
| oversourness | over- + sourness |
| overspaciously | over- + spaciously |
| oversparingness | over- + sparingness |
| overspeculatively | over- + speculatively |
| overspeculativeness | over- + speculativeness |
| overspeech | over- + speech |
| overspeediness | over- + speediness |
| oversplash | over- + splash |
| oversqueak | over- + squeak |
| oversqueamishly | over- + squeamishly |
| overstalely | over- + stalely |
| overstaleness | over- + staleness |
| overstalled | over- + stalled |
| oversteadfastly | over- + steadfastly |
| oversteadfastness | over- + steadfastness |
| oversteadily | over- + steadily |
| oversteadiness | over- + steadiness |
| overstiffen | over- + stiffen |
| overstiffly | over- + stiffly |
| overstimulatively | over- + stimulatively |
| overstimulativeness | over- + stimulativeness |
| overstoop | over- + stoop |
| overstoping | over- + stoping (mining excavation) |
| overstoutly | over- + stoutly |
| overstoutness | over- + stoutness |
| overstraight | over- + straight |
| overstraighten | over- + straighten |
| overstraightly | over- + straightly |
| overstraightness | over- + straightness |
| overstrait | over- + strait |
| overstraiten | over- + straiten |
| overstraitly | over- + straitly |
| overstraitness | over- + straitness |
| overstrengthen | over- + strengthen |
| overstridence | over- + stridence |
| overstridency | over- + stridency |
| overstridently | over- + stridently |
| overstridentness | over- + stridentness |
| overstring | over- + string |
| overstringing | over- + stringing |
| overstrongness | over- + strongness |
| overstud | over- + stud |
| oversuperstitiously | over- + superstitiously |
| oversuperstitiousness | over- + superstitiousness |
| oversured | over- + sured |
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