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 |
|---|---|
| gadroonage | gadroon + -age, gadrooned ornament |
| gageable | gage + -able, measurable |
| gagelike | gage + -like |
| gagership | gager + -ship |
| galliardize | galliard + -ize, gaiety, merriment |
| gallify | gall + -ify, to make bitter as gall |
| gallinulelike | gallinule + -like |
| gallish | gall + -ish, bitter, irritable |
| galloman | Gallo- + man, a lover of things French |
| gallused | gallus + -ed, wearing suspenders |
| gamblesomeness | gamblesome + -ness |
| gamboler | gambol + -er, one who gambols |
| gamogenetical | gamogenetic + -al |
| ganderess | gander + -ess |
| gaolage | gaol + -age, jail fees |
| gaolering | gaoler + -ing, acting as jailer |
| gaolerness | gaoler + -ness |
| gaposis | gap + -osis, mock-medical gaping of a garment |
| garnetlike | garnet + -like |
| gashliness | gashly (ghastly) + -ness |
| gaslightness | gaslight + -ness |
| gasogenic | gas + -ogenic, gas-producing |
| gasoliery | gasolier + -y, gas-fixture works |
| gaufferer | gauffer + -er, one who crimps cloth |
| gaugeably | gaugeable + -ly |
| gaumlike | gaum + -like, smeary or daubed |
| gaunty | gaunt + -y, somewhat gaunt |
| gausterer | gauster + -er, a blusterer |
| gavelage | gavel + -age, payment of feudal rent |
| gawkihood | gawky + -hood |
| gazetteerage | gazetteer + -age |
| geckoid | gecko + -oid |
| gelatinigerous | gelatin + -igerous, bearing gelatin |
| gemmiferousness | gemmiferous + -ness |
| genarchaship | genarcha + -ship |
| genarchship | genarch + -ship |
| generableness | generable + -ness |
| generalate | general + -ate, the office of a general |
| generalific | general + -ific, producing generals |
| genethliacally | genethliacal + -ly, as to nativities |
| genethliacism | genethliac + -ism, casting of nativities |
| genetoid | genet + -oid, civet-like |
| gentianal | gentian + -al, of the gentians |
| gentlewomanish | gentlewoman + -ish |
| geoagronomic | geo- + agronomic |
| geometricism | geometric + -ism |
| geometricist | geometric + -ist |
| geopolar | geo- + polar |
| geopolitist | geopolit(ics) + -ist, a geopolitician |
| germifuge | germ + -ifuge, agent expelling germs |
| germigene | germ + -igene, a germ-producer |
| germigenous | germ + -igenous, germ-producing |
| germinance | germinant + -ance, germination |
| germinancy | germinant + -cy, power of germinating |
| gesticulacious | gesticulate + -acious, given to gesturing |
| gesticularious | gesticular + -ious, full of gesticulation |
| gesturist | gesture + -ist, one who gestures |
| getling | get + -ling, an offspring |
| gettableness | gettable + -ness |
| ghostlikeness | ghostlike + -ness |
| giantlikeness | giantlike + -ness |
| gibbetwise | gibbet + -wise |
| gibboseness | gibbose + -ness |
| giftlike | gift + -like |
| gigantal | gigant- + -al, giantlike |
| giganticidal | giganticide + -al, giant-killing |
| gigmaness | gigman + -ess, a female gigman |
| gigmanhood | gigman + -hood |
| gigmania | gigman + -ia, Carlyle's respectability |
| gigmanic | gigman + -ic |
| gigmanically | gigmanic + -ally |
| gigsman | gig + -sman, one who rows a ship's gig |
| gildedness | gilded + -ness |
| gildship | gild (guild) + -ship |
| gimmaled | gimmal + -ed, jointed like a gimmal ring |
| gimper | gimp + -er, one who makes gimp |
| ginward | gin + -ward, toward the gin |
| gipsyesque | gipsy + -esque |
| gipsyfy | gipsy + -fy |
| gipsyhood | gipsy + -hood |
| gipsyry | gipsy + -ry, gypsydom |
| giraffesque | giraffe + -esque |
| girdingly | girding + -ly |
| girdlingly | girdling + -ly |
| girllikeness | girllike + -ness |
| glaciable | glaci- + -able, able to be frozen |
| glacification | glacify + -ation, turning to ice |
| gladify | glad + -ify |
| glarily | glary + -ly, glaringly |
| glasslikeness | glasslike + -ness |
| glazement | glaze + -ment, a glazed coating |
| glideness | glide + -ness |
| globical | globe + -ical, spherical |
| globousness | globous + -ness |
| globuloid | globule + -oid |
| glossingly | glossing + -ly |
| gluelikeness | gluelike + -ness |
| gluishness | gluish + -ness |
| glutinize | glutin- + -ize, to make glutinous |
| gnathonically | gnathonical + -ly, flatteringly |
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