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 |
|---|---|
| chartlet | chart + -let, a small chart |
| chatelainry | chatelain + -ry, the office of a chatelain |
| chattation | chat + -ation, chattering |
| cheatableness | cheatable + -ness |
| checkery | check + -ery, a chequered pattern |
| cheepily | cheep + -ily, with a cheeping sound |
| cheepiness | cheep + -iness |
| cheesemongerly | cheesemonger + -ly |
| chefdoms | chef + -dom + -s, the domain of a chef |
| cheniller | chenille + -er, a chenille maker |
| chickery | chick + -ery, a place for rearing chickens |
| chidingness | chiding + -ness |
| chiefish | chief + -ish, somewhat chieflike |
| childage | child + -age, childhood |
| childward | child + -ward, toward children |
| chiliadal | chiliad + -al, of a thousand |
| chiliadic | chiliad + -ic, of a thousand |
| chimericalness | chimerical + -ness |
| chinafy | China + -fy, to make Chinese |
| chinchillette | chinchilla + -ette, imitation chinchilla fur |
| chinchiness | chinchy + -ness, stinginess |
| chinner | chin (to chat) + -er, a chatterer |
| chinners | chin + -er + -s, chatterers |
| chinologist | Chino- + -logist, a sinologist |
| chipling | chip + -ling, a small chip |
| chirpling | chirp + -ling, to chirp faintly |
| chirrupper | chirrup + -er, one that chirrups |
| chiselly | chisel + -ly, chisel-like, gritty |
| chlorotically | chlorotic + -ally |
| chokage | choke + -age, a choking or obstruction |
| chokeable | choke + -able |
| choosableness | choosable + -ness |
| choragy | choragus + -y, the office of choragus |
| choregy | choregus + -y, office of the choregus |
| choriambize | choriamb + -ize, to write in choriambs |
| chorically | choric + -ally, as a chorus |
| choristership | chorister + -ship |
| choristry | chorist(er) + -ry, choir singing |
| chorizontal | chorizont- + -al, of the Homeric separatists |
| chorizontic | chorizont- + -ic |
| chorizontist | chorizont- + -ist, a Homeric separatist |
| chouanize | Chouan + -ize, to act as a Chouan |
| chowderheadedness | chowderheaded + -ness |
| chrismary | chrism + -ary, vessel for chrism |
| chrismatine | chrismat- + -ine, of chrism |
| chrismatize | chrism + -atize, to anoint with chrism |
| christed | Christ + -ed, made Christ |
| christianogentilism | Christiano- + gentilism |
| christianography | Christian + -ography, description of Christendom |
| christianopaganism | Christiano- + paganism |
| chromatician | chromatic + -ian, one versed in colour |
| chronanagram | chron- + anagram, anagram yielding a date |
| chrysalidal | chrysalid + -al |
| chrysalidian | chrysalid + -ian |
| chrysoaristocracy | chryso- + aristocracy, rule of wealth |
| chubbedness | chubbed + -ness |
| chuffer | chuff + -er |
| chumpiness | chumpy + -ness |
| churchwardenism | churchwarden + -ism |
| churchwardenize | churchwarden + -ize |
| churled | churl + -ed, made churlish |
| churlhood | churl + -hood |
| cicatrizer | cicatrize + -er |
| ciceronianize | Ciceronian + -ize |
| ciceronically | Ciceronic + -ally |
| ciceronize | cicerone + -ize, to act as a guide |
| cilicism | Cilicia + -ism, a Cilician idiom |
| cinemese | cinema + -ese, film jargon |
| circuitable | circuit + -able |
| circumaction | circum- + action, a turning round |
| circumagitation | circum- + agitation |
| circumantarctic | circum- + antarctic |
| circumaviate | circum- + aviate, to fly around |
| circumaviation | circum- + aviation |
| circumaviator | circum- + aviator |
| circumbasal | circum- + basal, round the base |
| circumdiction | circum- + diction, circumlocution |
| circumitineration | circum- + itineration, a going about |
| circummeridional | circum- + meridional |
| circummigrate | circum- + migrate |
| circummigration | circum- + migration |
| circumnatant | circum- + natant, swimming round |
| circumpacific | circum- + Pacific |
| circumplication | circum- + plication, a folding round |
| circumspangle | circum- + spangle |
| circumstantiability | circumstantiable + -ity |
| circumundulation | circum- + undulation |
| cisalpinism | Cisalpine + -ism |
| cismontanism | cismontane + -ism |
| cisted | cist + -ed, laid in a cist |
| citramontane | citra- + montane, on this side of the mountains |
| citronize | citron + -ize, to flavour with citron |
| citycism | city + -cism, city manner, after Atticism |
| citydom | city + -dom |
| civical | civic + -al |
| civilisatory | civilise + -atory |
| civilisedness | civilised + -ness |
| civilizade | civilize + -ade, a civilizing crusade |
| clabbery | clabber + -y, like curdled milk |
| clamorist | clamor + -ist |
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