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 |
|---|---|
| covisit | co- + visit, to visit jointly |
| covotary | co- + votary, a fellow votary |
| cowishness | cowish + -ness, cowardliness |
| coxcombess | coxcomb + -ess, a female coxcomb |
| coxcombhood | coxcomb + -hood |
| coxcombity | coxcomb + -ity, coxcombry |
| crackableness | crackable + -ness |
| crackpotism | crackpot + -ism |
| craggedly | cragged + -ly, craggily |
| crammingly | cramming + -ly |
| cranely | crane + -ly, like a crane |
| cranemanship | craneman + -ship, skill in working a crane |
| crankly | crank + -ly, in a crank manner |
| crannoger | crannog + -er, dweller in a crannog |
| crapulency | crapulent + -ency, drunken excess |
| craylet | cray(fish) + -let, a small crayfish |
| credencive | credence + -ive, phrenological term |
| credenciveness | credencive + -ness, faculty of belief |
| creditive | credit + -ive, giving belief |
| creedist | creed + -ist |
| cressed | cress + -ed, overgrown with cress |
| cretionary | cretion + -ary |
| cretism | Crete + -ism, lying like a Cretan |
| cretize | Crete + -ize, to lie like a Cretan |
| crewelist | crewel + -ist, a crewel-worker |
| crewellery | crewel + -lery, crewel work |
| crocodiline | crocodile + -ine |
| crocodiloid | crocodile + -oid |
| crofterize | crofter + -ize, to settle with crofters |
| cronish | crone + -ish |
| cronkness | cronk (unsound) + -ness |
| crosswiseness | crosswise + -ness |
| crownal | crown + -al |
| crownling | crown + -ling, a petty crowned one |
| cruciformity | cruciform + -ity |
| cruisingly | cruising + -ly |
| crumlet | crum(b) + -let, a small crumb |
| crummable | crum(b) + -able |
| crummer | crum(b) + -er |
| crumper | crump + -er |
| crunchingness | crunching + -ness |
| crushableness | crushable + -ness |
| crustedly | crusted + -ly |
| crustific | crust + -ific, crust-forming |
| crustification | crust + -ification |
| cryable | cry + -able |
| cryptarch | crypt(o)- + -arch, a secret ruler |
| cryptoagnostic | crypto- + agnostic |
| cryptoanalytically | crypto- + analytically |
| cryptoanalytics | crypto- + analytics |
| cryptoclimate | crypto- + climate, indoor climate |
| cryptoclimatology | crypto- + climatology |
| cryptocommercial | crypto- + commercial |
| cryptodeist | crypto- + deist |
| cryptodouble | crypto- + double |
| cryptodynamic | crypto- + dynamic |
| cryptoheresy | crypto- + heresy |
| cryptoheretic | crypto- + heretic |
| cryptoinflationist | crypto- + inflationist |
| cryptolunatic | crypto- + lunatic |
| cryptopapist | crypto- + papist |
| cryptoproselyte | crypto- + proselyte |
| cryptoproselytism | crypto- + proselytism |
| cryptosplenetic | crypto- + splenetic |
| cryptous | crypt + -ous, hidden |
| cubistically | cubistic + -ally |
| cuffyism | Cuffy + -ism (dated US racial term) |
| cullionry | cullion + -ry, rascally conduct |
| culminative | culminate + -ive |
| culmy | culm + -y, full of culm |
| culottic | culotte + -ic, breeches-wearing |
| culottism | culotte + -ism |
| cultistic | cultist + -ic |
| cultivably | cultivable + -ly |
| cultivative | cultivate + -ive |
| culturine | culture + -ine |
| culveriner | culverin + -er, gunner of a culverin |
| cumulately | cumulate + -ly |
| cumulatist | cumulate + -ist, one who accumulates |
| cupeler | cupel + -er, one who cupels |
| curatize | curate + -ize, to act as curate |
| curdly | curd + -ly, curd-like |
| curledly | curled + -ly |
| cursement | curse + -ment, a cursing |
| curstful | curst + -ful, ill-tempered |
| curstfully | curstful + -ly |
| curtailedly | curtailed + -ly |
| curval | curve + -al, pertaining to a curve |
| curvesomeness | curvesome + -ness |
| curvous | curv- + -ous, bent, curved |
| cushioniness | cushiony + -ness |
| customance | custom + -ance, customary usage |
| cuttler | cuttle + -er, one who cuttles |
| cyclar | cycl- + -ar, cyclic, circular |
| cyclian | cycle + -ian, of the epic Cycle |
| cyclicalness | cyclical + -ness |
| cyclistic | cyclist + -ic |
| cylindricule | cylinder + -icule, a small cylinder |
| cymbaline | cymbal + -ine, cymbal-like |
| dabblingness | dabbling + -ness |
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