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 |
|---|---|
| incord | in- + cord, to bind with cords |
| incoronation | in- + coronation, a crowning |
| incorporalness | incorporal + -ness |
| incorporatorship | incorporator + -ship |
| incorporealness | incorporeal + -ness |
| incorrespondent | in- + correspondent, not corresponding |
| incorrosive | in- + corrosive, not corrosive |
| incourteous | in- + courteous, discourteous |
| incourteously | incourteous + -ly |
| incrash | in- + crash, to crash inward |
| increasedly | increased + -ly |
| increately | increate + -ly, in an uncreated manner |
| increative | in- + creative, not creative |
| increditability | in- + creditability, incredibility |
| incrystal | in- + crystal, crystal enclosed within |
| inculpative | inculpate + -ive |
| incurment | incur + -ment, the incurring of |
| incurrer | incur + -er, one who incurs |
| incurvous | in- + curvous, curved inward |
| indeficiently | indeficient + -ly, unfailingly |
| indefinitively | indefinitive + -ly |
| indeliberation | in- + deliberation, want of deliberation |
| indemnization | indemnize + -ation, indemnification |
| indentee | indent + -ee, one bound by indenture |
| independable | in- + dependable, not to be relied on |
| independing | in- + depending, independent |
| indeprivability | in- + deprivability |
| indevoted | in- + devoted, not devoted |
| indexlessness | indexless + -ness |
| indiadem | in- + diadem, to crown with a diadem |
| indiademed | in- + diademed |
| indical | indic- (index) + -al, of an index |
| indicially | indicial + -ly |
| indictableness | indictable + -ness |
| indictional | indiction + -al, of a 15-year cycle |
| indifferential | indifferent + -ial |
| indimensional | in- + dimensional, without dimensions |
| indimple | in- + dimple, to mark with dimples |
| indiscerptibleness | indiscerptible + -ness |
| indiscovered | in- + discovered, undiscovered |
| indiscretionary | indiscretion + -ary |
| indispellable | in- + dispellable, not to be dispelled |
| indissolute | in- + dissolute, undissolved |
| indistance | in- + distance, want of distance |
| indistant | in- + distant, not distant, close |
| indisturbed | in- + disturbed, archaic for undisturbed |
| inditch | in- + ditch, to bury in a ditch |
| indivertibly | indivertible + -ly |
| indocilely | indocile + -ly |
| indrape | in- + drape, to drape or wrap in |
| indubitatively | indubitative + -ly |
| inducedly | induced + -ly |
| indulgentially | indulgential + -ly |
| indulgentness | indulgent + -ness |
| indwellingness | indwelling + -ness |
| ineconomic | in- + economic, uneconomic |
| ineffectibly | ineffectible + -ly |
| ineffulgent | in- + effulgent, not shining forth |
| inelaborated | in- + elaborated, unelaborated |
| inelaborately | inelaborate + -ly |
| inelasticate | inelastic + -ate, to render inelastic |
| ineludibly | ineludible + -ly, unavoidably |
| inenarrability | inenarrable + -ity, inexpressibility |
| inenarrably | inenarrable + -ly, indescribably |
| inenucleable | in- + enucleable, not to be enucleated |
| inequitableness | inequitable + -ness |
| inerasableness | inerasable + -ness |
| inerasible | in- + erasible, not erasable |
| inerroneous | in- + erroneous, free from error |
| inerubescent | in- + erubescent, not blushing |
| inevadible | in- + evadible, unavoidable |
| inevadibly | inevadible + -ly |
| inevasibleness | inevasible + -ness |
| inevasibly | inevasible + -ly |
| inexcellence | in- + excellence, want of excellence |
| inexcitableness | inexcitable + -ness |
| inexcitably | inexcitable + -ly |
| inexclusive | in- + exclusive, not exclusive |
| inexclusively | inexclusive + -ly |
| inexcommunicable | in- + excommunicable |
| inexhaustively | inexhaustive + -ly |
| inexhaustless | in- + exhaustless, inexhaustible |
| inexistency | inexistent + -cy, nonexistence |
| inexpansive | in- + expansive, not expansive |
| inexpectance | in- + expectance, want of expectation |
| inexpectancy | in- + expectancy |
| inexposable | in- + exposable, not to be exposed |
| inexpungibility | inexpungible + -ity |
| inextinguished | in- + extinguished, unextinguished |
| infamiliar | in- + familiar, unfamiliar |
| infamiliarity | in- + familiarity |
| infantive | infant + -ive, infantile |
| infatuatedness | infatuated + -ness |
| infernalry | infernal + -ry |
| inferribility | inferrible + -ity, inferability |
| inferringly | inferring + -ly |
| infieldsman | infield + -sman, baseball infielder |
| infigured | in- + figured, figured or shaped within |
| infinitesimalism | infinitesimal + -ism |
| infirmable | infirm + -able, that may be invalidated |
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