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 |
|---|---|
| disembower | dis- + embower, to remove from a bower |
| disembrace | dis- + embrace, to release from embrace |
| disembroilment | dis- + embroilment |
| disemprison | dis- + emprison, to free from prison |
| disenablement | disenable + -ment |
| disenact | dis- + enact, to repeal |
| disenactment | dis- + enactment |
| disengirdle | dis- + engirdle, to ungird |
| disenmesh | dis- + enmesh |
| disennui | dis- + ennui, to relieve of boredom |
| disensoul | dis- + ensoul, to deprive of soul |
| disensure | dis- + ensure, to render unsure |
| disentrammel | dis- + entrammel, to free from trammels |
| disexcommunicate | dis- + excommunicate, to lift excommunication |
| disexercise | dis- + exercise, to cease exercising |
| disfaith | dis- + faith, want of faith |
| disfeaturement | disfeature + -ment |
| disfen | dis- + fen, to clear of fen or marsh |
| disfoliage | dis- + foliage, to strip of leaves |
| disfoliaged | dis- + foliaged, stripped of leaves |
| disfortune | dis- + fortune, misfortune |
| disframe | dis- + frame, to take out of a frame |
| disfrequent | dis- + frequent, to cease frequenting |
| disfriar | dis- + friar, to unfrock a friar |
| disgallant | dis- + gallant, to strip of gallantry |
| disgaveled | dis- + gaveled, freed from gavelkind tenure |
| disgaveling | dis- + gaveling |
| disgeneric | dis- + generic, of a different genus |
| disglut | dis- + glut, to relieve of a glut |
| disgood | dis- + good, to deprive of good |
| disgospel | dis- + gospel, to strip of gospel character |
| disgospelize | dis- + gospelize |
| disgracement | disgrace + -ment |
| disgross | dis- + gross, to reduce from the gross |
| disgulf | dis- + gulf, to cast out of a gulf |
| disguster | disgust + -er, one who disgusts |
| dishallucination | dis- + hallucination |
| disheathing | dis- + sheathing, unsheathing |
| disheaven | dis- + heaven, to cast out of heaven |
| dishellenize | dis- + hellenize |
| disheritment | disherit + -ment, disinheritance |
| dishevely | dishevel + -y, dishevelled in look |
| dishling | dish + -ling, a little dish |
| dishmonger | dish + -monger, a dealer in dishes |
| dishonourary | dis- + honourary (British spelling) |
| dishumanize | dis- + humanize, to dehumanize |
| disillusioniser | disillusionise + -er (British spelling) |
| disimitate | dis- + imitate, to react contrarily to a model |
| disimitation | dis- + imitation (psychology) |
| disimmure | dis- + immure, to free from confinement |
| disincrust | dis- + incrust, to remove scale from |
| disincrustant | disincrust + -ant, boiler antiscale agent |
| disincrustion | disincrust + -ion, removal of scale |
| disinfeudation | dis- + infeudation, feudal law |
| disinhabit | dis- + inhabit, to depopulate |
| disinsulation | dis- + insulation |
| disintegrationist | disintegration + -ist |
| disintertwine | dis- + intertwine |
| disintrench | dis- + intrench, to drive from entrenchments |
| disknow | dis- + know, to disown, refuse to know |
| dislade | dis- + lade, to unload |
| dislady | dis- + lady, to strip of the rank of lady |
| dislaurel | dis- + laurel, to strip of laurels |
| dislegitimate | dis- + legitimate, to delegitimize |
| dislevelment | dislevel + -ment, state of being out of level |
| dislicense | dis- + license, to withdraw a license from |
| dislive | dis- + live, to deprive of life |
| dislocability | dislocable + -ity, capacity of being dislocated |
| dislock | dis- + lock, to unlock |
| dislove | dis- + love, to cease to love |
| disluster | dis- + luster, to deprive of luster |
| dislustered | dis- + lustered |
| dislustering | dis- + lustering |
| dismarble | dis- + marble, to strip of marble |
| dismark | dis- + mark, to remove marks from |
| dismarket | dis- + market, to withdraw from market |
| dismarketed | dis- + marketed |
| dismarketing | dis- + marketing |
| dismarshall | dis- + marshal, to throw into disorder |
| dismaw | dis- + maw, to disgorge from the maw |
| dismayable | dismay + -able |
| dismayingness | dismaying + -ness |
| dismeasurable | dis- + measurable, immeasurable |
| dismeasured | dis- + measured, immoderate |
| dismerit | dis- + merit, demerit |
| dismettled | dis- + mettled, spiritless |
| disminion | dis- + minion, to remove from favor |
| disminister | dis- + minister, to deprive of ministry |
| disnatural | dis- + natural, unnatural |
| disnew | dis- + new, to deprive of newness |
| disniche | dis- + niche |
| disnosed | dis- + nosed, deprived of a nose |
| disnumber | dis- + number |
| disoccident | dis- + occident |
| disoccupied | dis- + occupied |
| disoccupy | dis- + occupy |
| disoccupying | dis- + occupying |
| disoppilate | dis- + oppilate, to unblock |
| disorchard | dis- + orchard |
| disordinated | dis- + ordinated |
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