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 |
|---|---|
| concordity | concord + -ity |
| concordly | concord + -ly |
| concubinehood | concubine + -hood |
| concubitancy | concubitant + -cy |
| concubitous | concubitus + -ous, of sexual union |
| concussant | concuss + -ant, shaking |
| concyclically | concyclic + -ally |
| condensity | condense + -ity, degree of condensation |
| condescensive | condescension + -ive |
| condescensively | condescensive + -ly |
| condescensiveness | condescensive + -ness |
| condiddlement | condiddle (Scots, purloin) + -ment |
| condigness | condign + -ness |
| condistillation | con- + distillation |
| condivision | con- + division |
| condominate | con- + dominate, to rule jointly |
| conduceability | conduce + -ability |
| conducingly | conducing + -ly |
| conductility | conductile + -ity |
| coneighboring | co- + neighboring |
| confederatize | confederate + -ize |
| confessionalian | confessional + -ian |
| confidentiary | confidential + -ary, a confidant |
| confirmity | confirm + -ity, confirmation |
| confirmment | confirm + -ment |
| conflexure | con- + flexure, a bending together |
| confluxibility | confluxible + -ity |
| confluxible | conflux + -ible, able to flow together |
| confluxibleness | confluxible + -ness |
| confriar | con- + friar, fellow friar |
| congealer | congeal + -er |
| conglobately | conglobate + -ly |
| congreet | con- + greet, to greet mutually |
| congreganist | congregation + -ist, member of a sodality |
| congresser | congress + -er |
| congressionalist | congressional + -ist |
| congressionist | congression + -ist |
| congressist | congress + -ist |
| congustable | con- + gustable, tastable together |
| conicle | cone + -icle, a little cone |
| conification | cone + -ification, forming into a cone |
| conjecturableness | conjecturable + -ness |
| conjugably | conjugable + -ly |
| conjurership | conjurer + -ship |
| connectibility | connectible + -ity |
| connectibly | connectible + -ly |
| connectival | connective + -al |
| connivantly | connivant + -ly |
| connotively | connotive + -ly |
| conoidically | conoidical + -ly |
| cononintelligent | co- + nonintelligent |
| conourish | co- + nourish |
| conplane | con- + plane, lying in one plane |
| consentive | consent + -ive, agreeing |
| consentively | consentive + -ly |
| consequency | consequent + -cy, consequence |
| consignificate | con- + significate, to signify jointly |
| consignificator | con- + significator |
| consimilarity | con- + similarity |
| consistible | consist + -ible |
| consonantise | consonant + -ise, to make consonantal |
| constatory | constate + -ory, declaratory |
| consubsistency | con- + subsistency |
| consubstantive | con- + substantive |
| contactile | contact + -ile, relating to touch |
| contactually | contactual + -ly |
| containedly | contained + -ly |
| contangential | con- + tangential |
| contemnibly | contemnible + -ly |
| contemplance | contemplate + -ance, contemplation |
| contemplatedly | contemplated + -ly |
| contendress | contend + -ress, female contender |
| contestableness | contestable + -ness |
| contestless | contest + -less |
| contextive | context + -ive |
| contingentialness | contingential + -ness |
| continuateness | continuate + -ness |
| contortional | contortion + -al |
| contortioned | contortion + -ed |
| contortively | contortive + -ly |
| contrabandery | contraband + -ery |
| contracapitalist | contra- + capitalist |
| contracivil | contra- + civil |
| contractibly | contractible + -ly |
| contractionist | contraction + -ist |
| contractively | contractive + -ly |
| contractiveness | contractive + -ness |
| contractly | contract + -ly |
| contradebt | contra- + debt |
| contradiscriminate | contra- + discriminate |
| contradivide | contra- + divide |
| contraflexure | contra- + flexure, point of contraflexure |
| contrafocal | contra- + focal |
| contraorbital | contra- + orbital |
| contraorbitally | contraorbital + -ly |
| contrapolarization | contra- + polarization |
| contraposit | contra- + posit |
| contraprogressist | contra- + progressist |
| contrapuntalist | contrapuntal + -ist |
| contraregular | contra- + regular |
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