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 |
|---|---|
| prealliance | pre- + alliance |
| preallied | pre- + allied |
| preallies | pre- + allies |
| preallow | pre- + allow |
| preallowable | pre- + allowable |
| preallowably | pre- + allowably |
| preallowance | pre- + allowance |
| preallude | pre- + allude |
| prealluded | pre- + alluded |
| prealluding | pre- + alluding |
| preallusion | pre- + allusion |
| preally | pre- + ally |
| preallying | pre- + allying |
| prealphabetically | pre- + alphabetically |
| prealtar | pre- + altar |
| prealteration | pre- + alteration |
| preambition | pre- + ambition |
| preambitious | pre- + ambitious |
| preambitiously | pre- + ambitiously |
| preannex | pre- + annex |
| preanterior | pre- + anterior |
| preanticipate | pre- + anticipate |
| preanticipated | pre- + anticipated |
| preanticipating | pre- + anticipating |
| preappearance | pre- + appearance |
| preappearances | pre- + appearances |
| preapperception | pre- + apperception |
| preapprehend | pre- + apprehend |
| preapprise | pre- + apprise |
| preapprised | pre- + apprised |
| preapprising | pre- + apprising |
| preapprize | pre- + apprize |
| preapprized | pre- + apprized |
| preapprizing | pre- + apprizing |
| preapprobation | pre- + approbation |
| preaptitude | pre- + aptitude |
| prearrestment | pre- + arrestment |
| preascetic | pre- + ascetic |
| preassert | pre- + assert |
| preassure | pre- + assure |
| preassured | pre- + assured |
| preassuring | pre- + assuring |
| preattune | pre- + attune |
| preattuned | pre- + attuned |
| preattuning | pre- + attuning |
| preaver | pre- + aver |
| preaverred | pre- + averred |
| preaverring | pre- + averring |
| preavers | pre- + avers |
| preavowal | pre- + avowal |
| prebade | pre- + bade, past tense of prebid |
| prebalance | pre- + balance |
| prebalanced | pre- + balanced |
| prebalancing | pre- + balancing |
| preballoted | pre- + balloted |
| prebaptize | pre- + baptize |
| prebarbaric | pre- + barbaric |
| prebarbarically | pre- + barbarically |
| prebarbarous | pre- + barbarous |
| prebarbarously | pre- + barbarously |
| prebarbarousness | pre- + barbarousness |
| prebelief | pre- + belief |
| prebelieve | pre- + believe |
| prebelieved | pre- + believed |
| prebelieving | pre- + believing |
| prebenediction | pre- + benediction |
| prebeneficiaries | pre- + beneficiaries |
| prebeneficiary | pre- + beneficiary |
| prebenefit | pre- + benefit |
| prebenefited | pre- + benefited |
| prebenefiting | pre- + benefiting |
| prebeset | pre- + beset |
| prebesetting | pre- + besetting |
| prebestow | pre- + bestow |
| prebestowal | pre- + bestowal |
| prebetray | pre- + betray |
| prebetrayal | pre- + betrayal |
| prebidding | pre- + bidding |
| preblockaded | pre- + blockaded |
| preblockading | pre- + blockading |
| preboast | pre- + boast |
| preboding | pre- + boding |
| preboyhood | pre- + boyhood |
| prebreathe | pre- + breathe |
| prebreathed | pre- + breathed |
| prebreathing | pre- + breathing |
| prebromidic | pre- + bromidic |
| prebronze | pre- + bronze |
| prebrute | pre- + brute |
| precantation | pre- + cantation, a singing beforehand |
| precanvass | pre- + canvass |
| precaptured | pre- + captured |
| precapturing | pre- + capturing |
| precartilage | pre- + cartilage, tissue preceding cartilage |
| precausation | pre- + causation |
| precedentable | precedent + -able |
| precelebrant | pre- + celebrant |
| precensure | pre- + censure |
| precensured | pre- + censured |
| precensuring | pre- + censuring |
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