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 |
|---|---|
| ignivomousness | ignivomous + -ness, vomiting fire |
| iliadize | Iliad + -ize, to sing in Homeric vein |
| illabile | il- + labile, not liable to lapse |
| illachrymable | il- + lachrymable, unable to weep |
| illachrymableness | illachrymable + -ness |
| illapsive | illapse + -ive, gliding in |
| illaudation | il- + laudation, want of praise |
| illudedly | illuded + -ly, in a deluded manner |
| illuminational | illumination + -al |
| illusible | illude + -ible, able to be deluded |
| illustricity | illustrious + -ity, illustriousness |
| imagilet | image + -let, a little image |
| immailed | im- + mailed, clad in mail |
| immaneness | immane + -ness, monstrousness |
| immanental | immanent + -al |
| immarble | im- + marble, to turn to marble |
| immarcibleness | immarcible + -ness, unfadingness |
| immatchless | im- + matchless, peerless |
| immaterialization | immaterialize + -ation |
| immatriculate | im- + matriculate, to enroll |
| immedial | im- + medial, not medial |
| immedicableness | immedicable + -ness |
| immethodize | im- + methodize, to make unmethodical |
| immetricalness | immetrical + -ness |
| immitigableness | immitigable + -ness |
| immodish | im- + modish, unfashionable |
| immonastered | im- + monastered, shut in a monastery |
| immortalisable | immortalise + -able |
| immotioned | im- + motioned, unmoved |
| immound | im- + mound, to enclose with a mound |
| immunist | immune + -ist, advocate of immunization |
| immusically | immusical + -ly |
| immutilate | im- + mutilate, unmutilated |
| immutual | im- + mutual, not mutual |
| impacability | impacable + -ity, not to be appeased |
| impactionize | impaction + -ize |
| imparkation | impark + -ation, enclosing as a park |
| impartability | impartable + -ity |
| impartivity | impartive + -ity, quality of imparting |
| impeachableness | impeachable + -ness |
| impedimentary | impediment + -ary |
| impeevish | im- + peevish, to make peevish |
| impenitentness | impenitent + -ness |
| imperativally | imperatival + -ly |
| imperceiverant | im- + perceiverant, not perceiving |
| imperformable | im- + performable |
| imperialisation | imperialise + -ation |
| imperish | im- + perish, to make imperishable |
| impermeated | im- + permeated, not permeated |
| impermixt | im- + permixt, unmixed |
| impersonify | im- + personify, to embody in a person |
| imperspicable | im- + perspicable, not discernible |
| impersuadability | impersuadable + -ity |
| impersuadableness | impersuadable + -ness |
| imperverse | im- + perverse, not perverse |
| impervestigable | im- + pervestigable, not searchable out |
| impetulant | im- + petulant, not petulant |
| impetulantly | impetulant + -ly |
| impitiably | impitiable + -ly, without pity |
| implasticity | im- + plasticity |
| impletive | implete + -ive, serving to fill |
| impliability | impliable + -ity, inflexibility |
| impliably | impliable + -ly |
| implicately | implicate + -ly, by implication |
| implicateness | implicate + -ness |
| implorable | implore + -able |
| impolished | im- + polished, unpolished |
| importableness | importable + -ness (arch., unbearable) |
| importment | import + -ment, significance |
| imposableness | imposable + -ness |
| impossibilification | impossibilify + -ication |
| imposturism | imposture + -ism |
| imprecant | imprecate + -ant, one who imprecates |
| impredicability | impredicable + -ity |
| imprescience | im- + prescience, lack of foresight |
| impressionalist | impressional + -ist |
| impressionality | impressional + -ity |
| impressionally | impressional + -ly |
| imprevalency | im- + prevalency, want of prevalence |
| impreventability | impreventable + -ity |
| imprevision | im- + prevision, want of foresight |
| improbabilize | improbable + -ize |
| improduction | im- + production, non-production |
| improlificical | im- + prolifical, unfruitful |
| impromptitude | im- + promptitude |
| impromptuary | impromptu + -ary |
| impromptuist | impromptu + -ist, an improviser |
| improportion | im- + proportion, disproportion |
| impropriatrice | impropriator + -trice (fem.) |
| improvisedly | improvised + -ly |
| impuritan | im- + puritan, a non-puritan |
| impuritanism | im- + puritanism |
| imputrescence | im- + putrescence, freedom from decay |
| imputrid | im- + putrid, not putrid |
| impy | imp + -y, impish |
| inabstracted | in- + abstracted, not abstracted |
| inabusively | inabusive + -ly |
| inaccentuated | in- + accentuated |
| inaccentuation | in- + accentuation, want of accent |
| inaccordantly | inaccordant + -ly |
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