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 |
|---|---|
| diversicolored | diversi- + colored |
| divertedly | diverted + -ly |
| divertibility | divertible + -ity |
| dividableness | dividable + -ness |
| dividualism | dividual + -ism |
| dividuity | dividual + -ity, divisibility |
| divinability | divinable + -ity |
| dizenment | dizen + -ment, dressing up |
| docentship | docent + -ship |
| doctorization | doctorize + -ation |
| doctrinate | doctrine + -ate, to indoctrinate |
| doctrinist | doctrine + -ist |
| documentize | document + -ize |
| dodlet | dod + -let, a small rounded knob |
| dogberrydom | Dogberry + -dom, officious stupidity |
| doggereler | doggerel + -er, writer of doggerel |
| doggoner | doggone + -er |
| dolently | dolent + -ly, sorrowfully |
| dolmenic | dolmen + -ic |
| domesticative | domesticate + -ive |
| domically | domical + -ly |
| domoid | dome + -oid, dome-shaped |
| doomfulness | doomful + -ness |
| dopster | dope + -ster, a giver of tips |
| doricize | Doric + -ize, to make Doric |
| dorize | Dor(ic) + -ize, to make Doric |
| doubtably | doubtable + -ly, doubtfully |
| doubtedly | doubted + -ly, as is doubted |
| dovelikeness | dovelike + -ness |
| dovetailwise | dovetail + -wise, in the manner of a dovetail |
| doweral | dower + -al, pertaining to dower |
| drachmal | drachma + -al, of the drachma |
| draggily | draggy + -ly, in a dragging manner |
| draggletailedly | draggletailed + -ly |
| dragomanate | dragoman + -ate, office of a dragoman |
| dragoonable | dragoon + -able |
| dragoonage | dragoon + -age, action of dragooning |
| dramalogue | drama + -logue, a dramatic dialogue |
| dramaticle | dramatic + -le, a little drama |
| drawnly | drawn + -ly, in a drawn or haggard way |
| dreamage | dream + -age, the stuff of dreams |
| dreamingful | dreaming + -ful, full of dreaming |
| dreamwise | dream + -wise, in the manner of a dream |
| drearfully | drearful + -ly, dismally |
| drearisomely | drearisome + -ly |
| drearisomeness | drearisome + -ness |
| drearly | drear + -ly, drearily (archaic poetic) |
| dredgeful | dredge + -ful, a dredgeful of material |
| dreggily | dreggy + -ly, in a dreggy way |
| dressership | dresser + -ship, office of a dresser |
| dressmakership | dressmaker + -ship |
| dribblement | dribble + -ment, a dribbling |
| drinkably | drinkable + -ly |
| drinkproof | drink + -proof, proof against drink |
| drivage | drive + -age, mining, footage driven |
| drivership | driver + -ship, office of a driver |
| dronage | drone + -age, drudgery, drone's work |
| dropling | drop + -ling, a little drop |
| droppage | drop + -age, amount dropped |
| droppy | drop + -y, dripping, showery |
| dropsicalness | dropsical + -ness |
| drowsihood | drowsy + -hood, drowsiness |
| drudgism | drudge + -ism, the condition of a drudge |
| druidology | druid + -ology, the study of druids |
| drunkenwise | drunken + -wise, in a drunken manner |
| drusedom | Druse + -dom, the Druse community |
| drydenism | Dryden + -ism, a Dryden mannerism |
| duarch | duo- + -arch, one of two joint rulers |
| dubitatingly | dubitate + -ingly, doubtingly |
| ducklingship | duckling + -ship, state of being a duckling |
| duecentist | duecento + -ist, 13th-c. Italian artist |
| duellistic | duellist + -ic |
| duellize | duel + -ize, to fight a duel |
| dulcetness | dulcet + -ness |
| dullify | dull + -ify |
| dullity | dull + -ity, dullness |
| dumbbeller | dumbbell + -er |
| dumfounderment | dumfounder + -ment |
| dummyism | dummy + -ism |
| duodial | duo- + dial, having two dials |
| duodrama | duo- + drama, play for two actors |
| duopod | duo- + -pod, two-footed |
| dupedom | dupe + -dom |
| duplification | duplify + -ication, a doubling |
| duringly | during + -ly, continuously |
| dyarchical | dyarchic + -al, of a dyarchy |
| dykage | dyke + -age, cost of dyking |
| dynamitically | dynamitical + -ly |
| earthkin | earth + -kin, a little earth |
| earwigginess | earwiggy + -ness |
| eastlander | eastland + -er, dweller in the east |
| easygoingly | easygoing + -ly |
| easylike | easy + -like |
| ebriously | ebrious + -ly, drunkenly |
| ecclesiasticalism | ecclesiastical + -ism |
| ecclesiasticalness | ecclesiastical + -ness |
| ecclesiastry | ecclesiast + -ry, the clergy |
| echowise | echo + -wise |
| ecliptically | ecliptical + -ly |
| eclogic | eclogue + -ic, pastoral |
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