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 |
|---|---|
| nonveritableness | non- + veritableness |
| nonveritably | non- + veritably |
| nonverminously | non- + verminously |
| nonverminousness | non- + verminousness |
| nonversatility | non- + versatility |
| nonverticality | non- + verticality |
| nonverticalness | non- + verticalness |
| nonvesicularly | non- + vesicularly |
| nonvesture | non- + vesture |
| nonveterinaries | non- + veterinaries |
| nonvexatiously | non- + vexatiously |
| nonvexatiousness | non- + vexatiousness |
| nonvibrator | non- + vibrator |
| nonvicariously | non- + vicariously |
| nonvicariousness | non- + vicariousness |
| nonvigilance | non- + vigilance |
| nonvigilant | non- + vigilant |
| nonvigilantly | non- + vigilantly |
| nonvigilantness | non- + vigilantness |
| nonvillainously | non- + villainously |
| nonvillainousness | non- + villainousness |
| nonvindicable | non- + vindicable |
| nonvinosity | non- + vinosity |
| nonviolability | non- + violability |
| nonviolable | non- + violable |
| nonviolableness | non- + violableness |
| nonviolably | non- + violably |
| nonvirginally | non- + virginally |
| nonvirtuously | non- + virtuously |
| nonvirtuousness | non- + virtuousness |
| nonvirulently | non- + virulently |
| nonviscidity | non- + viscidity |
| nonviscidly | non- + viscidly |
| nonviscidness | non- + viscidness |
| nonviscously | non- + viscously |
| nonviscousness | non- + viscousness |
| nonvisibilities | non- + visibilities |
| nonvisibly | non- + visibly |
| nonvitality | non- + vitality |
| nonvitalized | non- + vitalized |
| nonvitally | non- + vitally |
| nonvitalness | non- + vitalness |
| nonvitiation | non- + vitiation |
| nonvitriolic | non- + vitriolic |
| nonvituperative | non- + vituperative |
| nonvituperatively | non- + vituperatively |
| nonviviparity | non- + viviparity |
| nonviviparously | non- + viviparously |
| nonviviparousness | non- + viviparousness |
| nonvocable | non- + vocable |
| nonvocality | non- + vocality |
| nonvocalization | non- + vocalization |
| nonvocalness | non- + vocalness |
| nonvocationally | non- + vocationally |
| nonvolatileness | non- + volatileness |
| nonvolubility | non- + volubility |
| nonvoluble | non- + voluble |
| nonvolubleness | non- + volubleness |
| nonvolubly | non- + volubly |
| nonvortically | non- + vortically |
| nonvulgarities | non- + vulgarities |
| nonvulgarity | non- + vulgarity |
| nonvulval | non- + vulval |
| nonwarrantable | non- + warrantable |
| nonwarrantably | non- + warrantably |
| nonwarranted | non- + warranted |
| nonwaxing | non- + waxing |
| nonwelcome | non- + welcome |
| nonwelcoming | non- + welcoming |
| nonwithering | non- + withering |
| nonwonder | non- + wonder |
| nonwondering | non- + wondering |
| nonwrinkleable | non- + wrinkleable |
| nonwrite | non- + write |
| nonzealously | non- + zealously |
| nonzealousness | non- + zealousness |
| nonzebra | non- + zebra |
| nonzonated | non- + zonated |
| nonzoologic | non- + zoologic |
| nonzoologically | non- + zoologically |
| norlandism | Norland + -ism, a northern idiom |
| normanly | Norman + -ly, in Norman fashion |
| norseler | norsel + -er, one who norsels a net |
| nosebanded | noseband + -ed, wearing a noseband |
| nosewort | nose + -wort, a plant name |
| nostrilsome | nostril + -some, wide-nostrilled |
| notariate | notary + -ate, the office of a notary |
| notchful | notch + -ful, as much as a notch holds |
| notchwort | notch + -wort, a Lophozia liverwort |
| notificational | notification + -al |
| noumenalism | noumenal + -ism, doctrine of noumena |
| noumenalist | noumenal + -ist |
| novantique | nov- + antique, at once new and antique |
| novatory | novate + -ory, innovating |
| novatrix | novator + -trix, a female innovator |
| noveletter | novelette + -er, writer of novelettes |
| novelless | novel + -less, without novels |
| novemdecillionth | novemdecillion + -th |
| novicery | novice + -ry, novitiate |
| nozzler | nozzle + -er, one who works a nozzle |
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