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 |
|---|---|
| soughfully | soughful + -ly, with a sighing sound |
| soughless | sough + -less, without a sighing sound |
| sourceful | source + -ful, abounding in sources |
| sourcefulness | sourceful + -ness, resourcefulness |
| sourling | sour + -ling, a sour or morose person |
| soury | sour + -y, somewhat sour |
| sovietistic | soviet + -istic |
| sowish | sow + -ish, pig-like |
| spalder | spald (to split) + -er, one who splits or spalls |
| spanielship | spaniel + -ship, fawning servility |
| spaniolate | Spaniol + -ate, to make Spanish |
| spargefication | sparge + -fication, a sprinkling |
| sparily | spary + -ily, sparingly |
| spartanhood | Spartan + -hood |
| spartanically | Spartanical + -ly |
| spatangoidean | Spatangoidea + -an, a heart urchin |
| spatheful | spathe + -ful |
| spatialist | spatial + -ist |
| spatiation | spatiate + -ion, a walking about, rambling |
| spawler | spawl + -er, one who spits |
| speakably | speakable + -ly |
| speakless | speak + -less, speechless |
| speaklessly | speakless + -ly |
| speckedness | specked + -ness |
| spectry | spectre + -ry, spectres collectively |
| speedingness | speeding + -ness |
| spermacetilike | spermaceti + -like |
| spherable | sphere + -able, that can be made spherical |
| spheroidically | spheroidical + -ly |
| sphinxianness | sphinxian + -ness |
| sphinxine | sphinx + -ine, sphinxlike |
| spiceable | spice + -able |
| spicosity | spicose + -ity, spikiness |
| spicousness | spicous + -ness, spikiness |
| spindlage | spindle + -age, spindle capacity of a mill |
| spindleage | spindle + -age, number of spindles |
| spinsterial | spinster + -ial |
| spinsterous | spinster + -ous |
| spiraloid | spiral + -oid |
| spiritualship | spiritual + -ship |
| spirous | spire + -ous, spiral |
| splendorousness | splendorous + -ness |
| splurgily | splurgy + -ly |
| spoilment | spoil + -ment |
| spokester | spokes- + -ster, a spokesman |
| spongian | sponge + -ian, of sponges |
| spongiculture | spongi- + -culture, sponge farming |
| spongiferous | spongi- + -ferous, sponge-bearing |
| spongingly | sponging + -ly |
| spooneyly | spooney + -ly |
| spoonism | spoon + -ism, sentimental courting |
| sporaceous | spore + -aceous, spore-like |
| sportable | sport + -able |
| sportsmanlikeness | sportsmanlike + -ness |
| sportswomanly | sportswoman + -ly |
| sportswrite | sports- + write, back-formation from sportswriter |
| spousy | spouse + -y, spouse-like |
| spragger | sprag + -er, miner who sprags wheels |
| spratty | sprat + -y, abounding in sprats |
| sprayfully | sprayful + -ly |
| sprinklingly | sprinkling + -ly |
| spriteless | sprite + -less, spiritless |
| spritty | sprit + -y, full of sprits or splinters |
| sproutful | sprout + -ful |
| spruer | sprue + -er, in metal casting |
| spumification | spume + -ification, turning to foam |
| spumiform | spumi- + -form, foam-shaped |
| spumoid | spume + -oid, foam-like |
| spunklessly | spunkless + -ly |
| spunklessness | spunkless + -ness |
| spyer | spy + -er, one who spies |
| squabasher | squabash + -er, one who crushes or demolishes |
| squamy | squame + -y, scaly |
| squareage | square + -age, area in square measure |
| squarsonry | squarson + -ry, the squire-parson estate |
| squatterarchy | squatter + -archy, Australian rule by squatters |
| squattily | squatty + -ly |
| squatwise | squat + -wise, in a squatting fashion |
| squawkie | squawk + -ie, a squawking bird |
| squawler | squawl + -er, one who squalls |
| squeaklet | squeak + -let, a little squeak |
| squelchingness | squelching + -ness |
| squibling | squib + -ling, a little squib |
| squibster | squib + -ster, a writer of squibs |
| squintingness | squinting + -ness |
| squirage | squire + -age, the body of squires |
| squirearchical | squirearchy + -ical |
| squireocracy | squire + -ocracy, rule by squires |
| squiret | squire + -et, a petty squire |
| squirewise | squire + -wise, in a squire's manner |
| squirism | squire + -ism, the squire system |
| stabbingness | stabbing + -ness |
| stageableness | stageable + -ness |
| stageably | stageable + -ly |
| stagiritic | Stagirite + -ic, of Aristotle of Stagira |
| stagnantness | stagnant + -ness |
| stagnize | stagn- + -ize, to stagnate |
| stainably | stainable + -ly |
| stairy | stair + -y, having stairs |
| stalactital | stalactite + -al |
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