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 |
|---|---|
| rillock | rill + -ock, a small stream |
| rimery | rime + -ery, rhymes collectively |
| ringbarker | ringbark + -er, one who rings trees |
| ringleaderless | ringleader + -less |
| riotingly | rioting + -ly |
| riotistic | riot + -istic, given to rioting |
| riotocracy | riot + -ocracy, rule by rioting |
| ripelike | ripe + -like |
| risper | risp + -er, a rasper (Scots risp, to grate) |
| rivalable | rival + -able |
| riverly | river + -ly, like a river |
| riversider | riverside + -er, one who lives by a river |
| rivingly | riving + -ly, in a rending manner |
| roamage | roam + -age, a roaming |
| robustfulness | robust + -fulness |
| robustic | robust + -ic |
| rockerthon | rocker + -thon, a rocking-chair marathon |
| rocketor | rocket + -or, one that rockets |
| rockety | rocket + -y, like a rocket |
| roey | roe + -y, figured like roe, of wood |
| roiledness | roiled + -ness |
| rollerer | roller + -er, one who works a roller |
| romancealist | romance + -alist, a writer of romances |
| romanceish | romance + -ish |
| romanceishness | romanceish + -ness |
| romanceress | romancer + -ess, a woman romancer |
| romaniform | roman + -iform, of Roman letter form |
| romanite | Roman + -ite, a Romanist |
| romanticalism | romantical + -ism |
| romanticality | romantical + -ity |
| romantist | romant- + -ist, a writer of romance |
| romipetal | Rome + -ipetal, tending toward Rome |
| rompee | romp + -ee, one who is romped with |
| ronsardize | Ronsard + -ize, to write in Ronsard's manner |
| roomthily | roomthy + -ily, spaciously |
| roomthiness | roomthy + -ness, spaciousness |
| roquist | roque + -ist, a player of roque |
| rosetty | rosette + -y, set with rosettes |
| roseways | rose + -ways, in the fashion of a rose |
| rotarianize | Rotarian + -ize |
| rotativism | rotative + -ism, rotation in office |
| rotundify | rotund + -ify, to make round |
| roughhousy | roughhouse + -y |
| rougy | rouge + -y, of the nature of rouge |
| roundeleer | roundel + -eer, a singer of roundels |
| rousedness | roused + -ness |
| routhiness | routhy + -ness, plenty |
| royetness | royet + -ness, wildness |
| royetously | royetous + -ly, riotously |
| rubberwise | rubber + -wise |
| rubbishingly | rubbishing + -ly |
| rubbler | rubble + -er, a mason who works in rubble |
| rubricize | rubric + -ize |
| rubywise | ruby + -wise |
| rucky | ruck + -y, full of creases |
| ruddish | ruddy + -ish, somewhat red |
| ruesomeness | ruesome + -ness, pitifulness |
| runkly | runkle + -y, wrinkled |
| russolatrous | Russo- + -latrous, worshipping things Russian |
| russolatry | Russo- + -latry, worship of things Russian |
| russomaniacal | Russomania + -cal |
| russophobiac | Russophobia + -ac |
| rusticial | rustic + -ial, rural |
| rustlingness | rustling + -ness |
| sabaist | Sabaism + -ist, a worshipper of the stars |
| sabbaticalness | sabbatical + -ness |
| saccharineish | saccharine + -ish |
| sacramenter | sacrament + -er, one who administers a sacrament |
| sacrarial | sacrarium + -al, of a sacrarium |
| sadduceeist | Sadducee + -ist |
| saintologist | saint + -ologist, a student of the saints |
| salaamlike | salaam + -like |
| salientness | salient + -ness |
| saltatorily | saltatory + -ly, by leaping |
| saltimbankery | saltimbank + -ery, mountebankery |
| saltireways | saltire + -ways, in the manner of a saltire |
| salutatious | salutation + -ous, given to greetings |
| salvy | salve + -y, greasy like salve |
| samesome | same + -some, monotonous |
| sammer | sam + -er, one who sams or soaks hides |
| samsoness | Samson + -ess, a woman of great strength |
| samsonistic | Samson + -istic, in the manner of Samson |
| sanctifiably | sanctifiable + -ly |
| sanctionableness | sanctionable + -ness |
| sandblindness | sand-blind + -ness, half-blindness |
| sandiferous | sand + -iferous, sand-bearing |
| sanguinuity | sanguin- + -ity, blood kinship (cf. consanguinity) |
| sanjakship | sanjak + -ship, the office of a sanjak |
| saporifical | saporific + -al, producing taste |
| satable | sate + -able, that may be sated |
| satanophil | Satan + -ophil, devil-loving |
| satanship | Satan + -ship, a mock title for the devil |
| satellitarian | satellite + -arian, of satellites |
| satellitian | satellite + -ian |
| satellitoid | satellite + -oid, satellite-like |
| satiableness | satiable + -ness |
| satiably | satiable + -ly |
| satinite | satin + -ite, a satin-like material |
| satinity | satin + -ity, satiny quality |
| satisfactionist | satisfaction + -ist, holder of that doctrine |
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