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 |
|---|---|
| cointensity | co- + intensity |
| cointerest | co- + interest |
| cointerred | co- + interred |
| cointerring | co- + interring |
| cointers | co- + inters |
| cokie | coke + -ie, a cocaine user |
| cokneyfy | cokney (cockney) + -fy |
| colicker | colic + -er, one subject to colic |
| collatress | collator + -ess, a female collator |
| colleaguesmanship | colleagues + -manship |
| collegatary | col- + legatary, a joint legatee |
| collegese | college + -ese, college jargon |
| collegialism | collegial + -ism |
| collegiation | collegiate + -ion, formation into a college |
| collinal | colline (hill) + -al, of hills |
| collingly | colling + -ly, embracingly |
| colliquativeness | colliquative + -ness |
| collocationable | collocation + -able |
| colloider | colloid + -er, a colloid-forming agent |
| colloquializer | colloquialize + -er |
| colossuswise | colossus + -wise |
| colourationally | colourational + -ly |
| colove | co- + love, to love jointly |
| columnarian | columnar + -ian |
| columnation | column + -ation, arrangement in columns |
| comade | co- + made, made jointly |
| comagistracy | co- + magistracy |
| comake | co- + make |
| comaking | co- + making |
| combatter | combat + -er, one who combats |
| combustively | combustive + -ly |
| cometoid | comet + -oid, comet-like |
| comicocratic | comico- + cratic, of comic rule |
| comicocynical | comico- + cynical |
| comicodidactic | comico- + didactic |
| comicoprosaic | comico- + prosaic |
| comism | com(ic) + -ism, comic quality |
| commaterial | com- + material, of the same material |
| commeddle | com- + meddle, to mingle together |
| commentarialism | commentarial + -ism |
| commercialness | commercial + -ness |
| commilitant | com- + militant, fellow soldier |
| comminister | com- + minister, fellow minister |
| commoderate | com- + moderate, to moderate jointly |
| commoditable | commodity + -able, marketable |
| communalizer | communalize + -er |
| communital | community + -al |
| communitary | community + -ary, communal |
| comolecule | co- + molecule |
| comourn | co- + mourn, to mourn together |
| comourner | co- + mourner |
| comournful | co- + mournful |
| compactile | compact + -ile, capable of being compacted |
| companyless | company + -less |
| compassability | compass + -ability |
| compassivity | compassive + -ity |
| compassment | compass + -ment, a contriving |
| compellability | compellable + -ity (law) |
| compendency | compendent + -ency, a hanging together |
| compenetration | com- + penetration, mutual penetration |
| compileable | compile + -able, var. of compilable |
| complementative | complement + -ative |
| complexionably | complexionable + -ly |
| complexionist | complexion + -ist, judger by complexion |
| compliableness | compliable + -ness |
| compliably | compliable + -ly |
| complimentalness | complimental + -ness |
| complimentation | compliment + -ation |
| compoer | compo + -er, one who applies compo |
| composal | compose + -al, act of composing |
| compotationship | compotation + -ship, drinking together |
| compresbyter | com- + presbyter, fellow presbyter |
| compresbyterial | com- + presbyterial |
| compriest | com- + priest, fellow priest |
| comprizable | comprize + -able (comprisable) |
| comprizal | comprize + -al (comprisal) |
| comproduce | co- + produce |
| compromitment | compromit + -ment, submission to arbiters |
| comptness | compt (neat, trim) + -ness |
| compunctionary | compunction + -ary |
| compupil | com- + pupil, fellow pupil |
| computatively | computative + -ly |
| comurmurer | co- + murmurer |
| conationalistic | conational + -istic, of striving (psych.) |
| conaxial | con- + axial, coaxial |
| concarnation | con- + carnation, union in the flesh |
| concatenary | concatenate + -ary, of a chain |
| concentralization | con- + centralization |
| concentralize | con- + centralize |
| concentricate | concentric + -ate, to make concentric |
| concertiser | concertise + -er |
| concertment | concert + -ment |
| concettist | concetti + -ist, writer of conceits |
| concinnously | concinnous + -ly |
| concludence | conclude + -ence, inference |
| concludently | concludent + -ly |
| concoagulate | con- + coagulate |
| concoagulation | con- + coagulation |
| conconscious | co- + conscious (psychology) |
| concordably | concordable + -ly |
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