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 |
|---|---|
| patheticate | pathetic + -ate, to render pathetic |
| patheticly | pathetic + -ly |
| pathicism | pathic + -ism |
| pathment | path + -ment, a made path |
| patriolatry | patri- + -latry, worship of the fatherland |
| patriotly | patriot + -ly |
| patripassianly | patripassian + -ly |
| patristicalness | patristical + -ness |
| patterist | patter + -ist, one who patters |
| paucify | pauci- + -fy, to make few |
| pauliad | Paul + -iad, an epic on St. Paul |
| paulinistically | Paulinistic + -ally |
| paulinity | Pauline + -ity, Pauline character |
| pauperiser | pauperise + -er |
| pauperitic | pauper + -itic, of pauperism |
| pausably | pausable + -ly |
| pausement | pause + -ment, a pausing |
| paynimhood | paynim + -hood, heathendom |
| peachify | peach + -ify |
| peacockly | peacock + -ly |
| peaiism | peai + -ism, Carib shamanism |
| peakedly | peaked + -ly |
| peakishly | peakish + -ly |
| pealer | peal + -er, one that peals |
| peaselike | pease + -like |
| peatship | peat + -ship, condition of being a pet |
| peccantness | peccant + -ness |
| peckage | peck + -age, measurement by the peck |
| pectizable | pectize + -able |
| pectoralist | pectoral + -ist, wearer of a pectoral |
| pecuniosity | pecunious + -ity, wealthiness |
| pedagogish | pedagogue + -ish |
| pedagoguish | pedagogue + -ish |
| pedagoguism | pedagogue + -ism |
| pedalism | pedal + -ism |
| pedalist | pedal + -ist, one who works pedals |
| pedantesque | pedant + -esque |
| pedanthood | pedant + -hood |
| peddlerism | peddler + -ism |
| peddlingly | peddling + -ly |
| pedologistical | pedologist + -ical |
| pedologistically | pedologistical + -ly |
| pedometrist | pedometer + -ist, one who uses a pedometer |
| peeledness | peeled + -ness |
| peelism | Peel + -ism, the politics of Sir Robert Peel |
| peerling | peer + -ling, a petty peer |
| peerly | peer + -ly, like a peer |
| pelagianizer | Pelagianize + -er |
| pelmanist | Pelman + -ist, adherent of Pelmanism |
| pelmanize | Pelman + -ize, to train the memory |
| peltish | pelt + -ish, inclined to pelt |
| penalisable | penalise + -able |
| penancer | penance + -er, one who imposes penance |
| penancy | penance + -cy, state of doing penance |
| pencilry | pencil + -ry |
| pendragonish | Pendragon + -ish |
| pensefulness | penseful + -ness |
| pensionry | pension + -ry, a system of pensions |
| pentametrize | pentameter + -ize |
| pentasyllabism | penta- + syllabism |
| peoplement | people + -ment, a peopling |
| peoplet | people + -et, a small people |
| peppercornish | peppercorn + -ish |
| pepperproof | pepper + -proof |
| peptonelike | peptone + -like |
| peracidity | per- + acidity, excessive acidity |
| percentable | percent + -able |
| percentably | percentable + -ly |
| percentaged | percentage + -ed, reckoned as a percentage |
| perceptionalism | perceptional + -ism |
| percolable | percolate + -able |
| percompound | per- + compound, a per-salt |
| percrystallization | per- + crystallization |
| percussioner | percussion + -er |
| percussionize | percussion + -ize, to fit a percussion lock |
| perdiligence | per- + diligence, great diligence |
| perdiligent | per- + diligent, very diligent |
| peregrinative | peregrinate + -ive, given to travelling |
| perfectedly | perfected + -ly |
| perfectibilitarian | perfectibility + -arian |
| perfectionation | perfectionate + -ion |
| perfectionator | perfectionate + -or |
| perfectioner | perfection + -er, one who perfects |
| perfectionizement | perfectionize + -ment |
| perfectionizer | perfectionize + -er |
| perfectism | perfect + -ism |
| perfectist | perfect + -ist, a perfectionist |
| perfectuation | perfectuate + -ion, a bringing to perfection |
| perforationproof | perforation + -proof |
| perforatory | perforate + -ory, a perforating instrument |
| perforcedly | perforced + -ly, of necessity |
| perfunctorize | perfunctory + -ize |
| perfuncturate | perfunctory + -ate, to do perfunctorily |
| periodicalism | periodical + -ism |
| peripatetian | Peripatetic + -an, an Aristotelian |
| peripatize | peripat(etic) + -ize, to philosophize walking |
| peristrephical | peristrephic + -al, turning about |
| perjinkly | perjink + -ly, Scots precisely |
| perjuredly | perjured + -ly |
| perjuredness | perjured + -ness |
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