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 |
|---|---|
| fitified | fit + -ified, subject to fits |
| fittiness | fitty + -ness, neatness, aptness |
| fittyfied | fitty + -fied, made neat or proper |
| fittyways | fitty + -ways, properly, suitably |
| fittywise | fitty + -wise, properly, suitably |
| flaggery | flag + -ery, flags collectively |
| flagrantness | flagrant + -ness |
| flaithship | flaith + -ship, Irish chieftainship |
| flamandization | Flamand + -ization, making Flemish |
| flamandize | Flamand + -ize, to make Flemish |
| flamboyantism | flamboyant + -ism |
| flamboyantize | flamboyant + -ize |
| flankard | flank + -ard, the flank part |
| flanky | flank + -y, having flanks |
| flashet | flash + -et, a small sluice or flash |
| flatulentness | flatulent + -ness |
| flavorfulness | flavorful + -ness |
| flavoriness | flavory + -ness |
| flavorousness | flavorous + -ness |
| fleay | flea + -y, flea-ridden |
| fledgy | fledge + -y, feathery |
| fleshful | flesh + -ful |
| flexity | flex + -ity, flexibility |
| flexuoseness | flexuose + -ness |
| fleyedly | fleyed + -ly (Scots fley, to frighten) |
| fleyedness | fleyed + -ness |
| flirtling | flirt + -ling, a little flirt |
| floatative | float + -ative, buoyant |
| floative | float + -ive, buoyant |
| floey | floe + -y, full of ice floes |
| floggingly | flogging + -ly |
| flossification | floss + -ification |
| flotative | flotate + -ive, able to float |
| flotorial | flotation + -orial, of floating |
| flowerist | flower + -ist, a florist |
| fluctuosity | fluctuous + -ity |
| fluidible | fluid + -ible |
| flunkeyite | flunkey + -ite |
| flunkeyize | flunkey + -ize |
| flunkyite | flunky + -ite |
| flunkyize | flunky + -ize |
| flurriment | flurry + -ment, agitation |
| fluxer | flux + -er |
| fluxibly | fluxible + -ly |
| foaly | foal + -y, of or like a foal |
| foeish | foe + -ish |
| fogramite | fogram + -ite, an old fogey |
| fogramity | fogram + -ity |
| fogyishness | fogyish + -ness |
| foiningly | foining + -ly, with a thrust |
| foldedly | folded + -ly |
| foldure | fold + -ure, a folding |
| foliator | foliate + -or |
| foliously | folious + -ly |
| folkmooter | folkmoot + -er |
| folkmoter | folkmot + -er |
| fondlike | fond + -like |
| foolhardiship | foolhardy + -ship |
| footingly | footing + -ly |
| fopperly | fopper + -ly, foppishly |
| fopship | fop + -ship |
| forbidal | forbid + -al |
| forcive | force + -ive, forcible |
| foreaccounting | fore- + accounting |
| foreaccustom | fore- + accustom |
| foreact | fore- + act |
| foreadapt | fore- + adapt |
| foreadvertise | fore- + advertise |
| foreadvice | fore- + advice |
| foreallege | fore- + allege |
| foreallot | fore- + allot |
| foreassurance | fore- + assurance |
| forebackwardly | fore- + backwardly |
| forebemoan | fore- + bemoan |
| forebespeak | fore- + bespeak |
| forebless | fore- + bless |
| forecatching | fore- + catching |
| forechamber | fore- + chamber |
| forechurch | fore- + church |
| forecomingness | fore- + comingness |
| forecommend | fore- + commend |
| foreconclude | fore- + conclude, to conclude beforehand |
| foreconsent | fore- + consent, consent given in advance |
| forecontrive | fore- + contrive, to contrive beforehand |
| forecool | fore- + cool, to cool in advance |
| forecooler | fore- + cooler, preliminary cooling vessel |
| forecounsel | fore- + counsel, counsel given beforehand |
| forecovert | fore- + covert, front wing-covert feather |
| foredefine | fore- + define, to define beforehand |
| foredenounce | fore- + denounce, to denounce in advance |
| foredescribe | fore- + describe, to describe beforehand |
| foredeserved | fore- + deserved, deserved beforehand |
| foredesignment | fore- + designment, prior design |
| foredestining | fore- + destining, destining in advance |
| foredestiny | fore- + destiny, predetermined fate |
| foredevised | fore- + devised, devised beforehand |
| foredevote | fore- + devote, to devote in advance |
| forediscern | fore- + discern, to discern beforehand |
| foredivine | fore- + divine, to divine beforehand |
| foredoomer | fore- + doomer, one who foredooms |
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