Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
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 |
|---|---|
| moilingly | moiling + -ly |
| moistiness | moisty + -ness |
| moistishness | moistish + -ness |
| moldableness | moldable + -ness |
| molehillish | molehill + -ish |
| moleism | mole + -ism |
| molestfully | molestful + -ly |
| mollifyingness | mollifying + -ness |
| molluscousness | molluscous + -ness |
| molochship | Moloch + -ship |
| monachate | monach + -ate, monkhood |
| monarchally | monarchal + -ly |
| monarchomachist | monarchomachy + -ist, opponent of monarchs |
| monatomism | mon- + atomism |
| monepiscopal | mon- + episcopal, rule by one bishop |
| mongreliser | mongrelise + -er |
| monisher | monish + -er |
| monitorish | monitor + -ish |
| monkeyry | monkey + -ry |
| monkliness | monkly + -ness |
| monochordize | monochord + -ize |
| monochromical | monochromic + -al |
| monodize | monody + -ize |
| monogenesist | monogenesis + -ist |
| monogerm | mono- + germ, seed with a single germ |
| monomail | mono- + mail, of a single piece of mail armor |
| mononymization | mononymize + -ation |
| mononymize | mononym + -ize |
| monosynthetic | mono- + synthetic |
| monsieurship | monsieur + -ship |
| monsoonishly | monsoonish + -ly |
| moonlikeness | moonlike + -ness |
| moonwards | moon + -wards |
| moorburner | moorburn + -er |
| moorship | Moor + -ship |
| mootworthy | moot + -worthy |
| mopheadedness | mopheaded + -ness |
| morassic | morass + -ic |
| morganize | Morgan + -ize, to abduct or make away with |
| morigerously | morigerous + -ly |
| morigerousness | morigerous + -ness |
| morological | morology + -ical, of foolish talk |
| morologically | morological + -ly |
| morologist | morology + -ist |
| moroncy | moron + -cy |
| moronry | moron + -ry |
| morphized | morph + -ize + -ed, given form |
| morphizing | morph + -ize + -ing |
| morphous | morph + -ous, having definite form |
| mortalwise | mortal + -wise, in a mortal manner |
| mortarize | mortar + -ize |
| mortific | mort- + -ific, death-causing |
| moschatelline | moschatel + -ine, of the moschatel |
| mosquelet | mosque + -let, a small mosque |
| mountebankly | mountebank + -ly |
| mouseship | mouse + -ship |
| mouslingly | mousling + -ly, from mousle to handle roughly |
| mouthishly | mouth + -ish + -ly, in a mouthy way |
| muckment | muck + -ment, filth, refuse |
| muddleproof | muddle + -proof |
| muggery | mugger + -y, a mugger's trade |
| mulctation | mulct + -ation, the imposing of a fine |
| mulctative | mulct + -ative, imposing a fine |
| mulctatory | mulct + -atory, punitive by fine |
| mulierine | mulier + -ine, of a woman or wife |
| mulism | mule + -ism, mulishness |
| mulletry | mullet + -ry, mullets collectively |
| multangularly | multangular + -ly |
| multangularness | multangular + -ness |
| multangulous | mult- + angulous, many-angled |
| multichanneled | multi- + channeled |
| multichrome | multi- + -chrome, many-colored |
| multicircuited | multi- + circuited |
| multifibrous | multi- + fibrous |
| multiinfection | multi- + infection |
| multilaned | multi- + laned |
| multimarble | multi- + marble |
| multimetallist | multi- + metallist |
| multiplated | multi- + plated |
| multipliableness | multipliable + -ness |
| multiregister | multi- + register |
| multiresin | multi- + resin |
| multisonic | multi- + sonic |
| multisonorous | multi- + sonorous |
| multisonorously | multi- + sonorously |
| multisonorousness | multi- + sonorousness |
| multispindled | multi- + spindled |
| multisyllability | multi- + syllability, polysyllabism |
| multitagged | multi- + tagged |
| multiviewing | multi- + viewing |
| multiwords | multi- + words |
| municipalist | municipal + -ist |
| munificentness | munificent + -ness |
| munitionary | munition + -ary |
| muscoseness | muscose + -ness, mossiness |
| muscovadite | muscovad(o) + -ite |
| museist | museum + -ist, one devoted to museums |
| musery | muse + -ery, a musing |
| musiciana | musician + -a(na), musical collectanea |
| musicofanatic | musico- + fanatic |
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