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 |
|---|---|
| intertrace | inter- + trace |
| intertraced | inter- + traced |
| intertracing | inter- + tracing |
| intertrafficked | inter- + trafficked |
| intertrafficking | inter- + trafficking |
| intertrinitarian | inter- + Trinitarian, between Persons of the Trinity |
| intertwistingly | intertwisting + -ly |
| interveinous | inter- + veinous, between the veins |
| intervertebra | inter- + vertebra |
| intervolute | inter- + volute, rolled up together |
| interwarred | inter- + warred |
| interwarring | inter- + warring |
| interweld | inter- + weld |
| interwhiff | inter- + whiff |
| interwhile | inter- + while, in the meanwhile |
| interwhistle | inter- + whistle |
| interwhistled | inter- + whistled |
| interwhistling | inter- + whistling |
| interwinded | inter- + winded, past of interwind |
| interwish | inter- + wish |
| interworry | inter- + worry |
| intestineness | intestine (adj., inward) + -ness |
| intimidity | in- + timidity, absence of timidity |
| intinctivity | in- + tinctivity, lack of tinging power |
| intitulation | intitule + -ation, act of entitling |
| intoothed | in- + toothed, set with teeth |
| intower | in- + tower, to shut up in a tower |
| intoxicantly | intoxicant + -ly |
| intoxicatively | intoxicative + -ly |
| intrabred | intra- + bred, bred within a group |
| intracanonical | intra- + canonical |
| intracommunication | intra- + communication |
| intracosmic | intra- + cosmic, within the universe |
| intracosmical | intra- + cosmical |
| intracosmically | intracosmical + -ly |
| intradepartment | intra- + department |
| intraecclesiastical | intra- + ecclesiastical |
| intraline | intra- + line, within a line |
| intralogical | intra- + logical |
| intramachine | intra- + machine, within one machine |
| intramatrically | intramatrical + -ly, within the matrix |
| intrametropolitan | intra- + metropolitan |
| intramuralism | intramural + -ism |
| intransferrable | in- + transferrable |
| intraparochial | intra- + parochial |
| intrapsychical | intra- + psychical |
| intrarelation | intra- + relation |
| intraselection | intra- + selection, selection within the organism |
| introactive | intro- + active, acting inwardly |
| introconversion | intro- + conversion, mutual conversion |
| introconvertibility | introconvertible + -ity |
| introconvertible | intro- + convertible, mutually convertible |
| introflex | intro- + flex, to bend inward |
| introinflection | intro- + inflection, a bending inward |
| introjective | introject + -ive |
| intromissibility | intromissible + -ity |
| intromissible | intromit + -ible, admissible within |
| intropulsive | intro- + pulsive, driving inward |
| introsensible | intro- + sensible, perceptible inwardly |
| introsentient | intro- + sentient |
| introspector | introspect + -or |
| introsuction | intro- + suction, a drawing inward |
| introtraction | intro- + traction, a drawing inward |
| introversibility | introversible + -ity |
| introvision | intro- + vision, inward sight |
| introvolution | intro- + volution, a rolling inward |
| intuicity | intui- + -city, quality of being intuitive |
| inunctuosity | in- + unctuosity, want of oiliness |
| inunctuous | in- + unctuous, not oily |
| inunderstandable | in- + understandable |
| inutilely | inutile + -ly, uselessly |
| inutilized | in- + utilized, not put to use |
| invaginable | invaginate + -able |
| invalued | in- + valued, not valued |
| invaried | in- + varied, unvaried |
| invein | in- + vein, to enclose in a vein |
| invendibility | in- + vendibility, unsalableness |
| invendibleness | invendible + -ness |
| inventibility | inventible + -ity |
| inventibleness | inventible + -ness |
| inventional | invention + -al |
| inverminate | in- + verminate, to fill with vermin |
| invernacular | in- + vernacular, not vernacular |
| inversatile | in- + versatile, not versatile |
| inversedly | inversed + -ly, inversely |
| invertebrateness | invertebrate + -ness |
| invertile | invert + -ile, capable of being inverted |
| invillage | in- + village, to form into a village |
| invivid | in- + vivid, not vivid |
| involatility | in- + volatility, non-volatility |
| involutedly | involuted + -ly |
| inwandering | in- + wandering |
| inwedged | in- + wedged, wedged in |
| inweight | in- + weight, inherent weight |
| inyoke | in- + yoke, to yoke in |
| ipsedixitish | ipse dixit + -ish, dogmatic |
| iricize | Iric + -ize, to make Irish |
| ironly | iron + -ly |
| irrarefiable | ir- + rarefiable |
| irreciprocity | ir- + reciprocity |
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