Real Words Without Definition
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A plural or a tense of a word that is already obscure, so the whole thing disappears twice over.
logoes is logo plus -es. landslided is landslide plus -ed. furiouser is furious plus -er. clanning is clan plus -ing.
Dictionaries list the base word and expect you to work out the rest. That works for a reader and not at all for a lookup script.
2,925 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 | The base word |
|---|---|
| queachiest | queachy + -est |
| queensberries | queensberry + -ies |
| quillaias | quillaia + -s, soapbark trees |
| quillajas | quillaja + -s |
| quininas | quinina + -s, doses of quinine |
| quinolas | quinola + -s, knaves of hearts at cards |
| quinsyberries | quinsyberry + -ies, black currants |
| quotieties | quotiety + -ies |
| racemisms | racemism + -s |
| rachitides | rachitis + -ides, plural of rachitis |
| radded | rad + -ed, dialect rad, to comb or clear |
| radding | rad + -ing, dialect rad, to comb or clear |
| radiotelemetries | radiotelemetry + -ies |
| ragees | ragee + -s, ragi millet |
| rainwears | rainwear + -s |
| rakees | rakee + -s, servings of raki |
| rammier | rammy + -er, ranker smelling |
| rammiest | rammy + -est, rankest smelling |
| ramosities | ramosity + -ies, branchednesses |
| rampoled | rampole + -ed |
| rampoling | rampole + -ing |
| ramtils | ramtil + -s, niger seed plants |
| ranaria | ranarium + -a, places for keeping frogs |
| raptest | rapt + -est |
| rastled | rastle + -ed, dialect wrestled |
| rastling | rastle + -ing, dialect wrestling |
| ratherest | rather + -est, archaic soonest or most of all |
| raucities | raucity + -ies, hoarsenesses |
| razeing | raze + -ing, older spelling of razing |
| rebeldoms | rebeldom + -s |
| rebops | rebop + -s, early name for bebop |
| rebosos | reboso + -s, shawls (rebozos) |
| reded | rede + -ed, archaic advised |
| relationals | relational + -s |
| renegated | renegate + -ed, obs. renegate, to turn renegade |
| renegating | renegate + -ing |
| rennases | rennase + -s, milk-curdling enzymes |
| reprievers | repriever + -s |
| respondencies | respondency + -ies |
| retems | retem + -s, the desert broom shrub |
| rexen | rex + -en, jocular plural of rex |
| rhaphae | rhaphe (raphe) + -ae, plural |
| rhedae | rheda + -ae, Latin four-wheeled carriages |
| rhedas | rheda + -s |
| rhinencephalons | rhinencephalon + -s |
| rhizopi | rhizopus + -i, Latin plural |
| rhizopuses | rhizopus + -es |
| rhuses | rhus + -es, sumacs |
| ribbier | ribby + -er, more ribbed |
| ribbiest | ribby + -est |
| ribosos | riboso + -s, rebozos |
| ribozos | ribozo + -s, rebozos |
| ricecars | ricecar + -s |
| richeted | richet + -ed |
| richeting | richet + -ing |
| richetted | richet + -ted |
| richetting | richet + -ting |
| rifenesses | rifeness + -es |
| rifleries | riflery + -ies |
| ringbones | ringbone + -s |
| ringtaws | ringtaw + -s |
| rippermen | ripperman, plural in -men |
| risuses | risus + -es, Latin laughs |
| riveled | rivel + -ed, wrinkled |
| riverines | riverine + -s |
| rizzomed | rizzom + -ed, Scots |
| robotisms | robotism + -s |
| robotries | robotry + -ies |
| rockabies | rockaby + -ies, lullabies |
| roentgenologies | roentgenology + -ies |
| roentgenometries | roentgenometry + -ies |
| roentgenoscopies | roentgenoscopy + -ies |
| ronnels | ronnel + -s, an organophosphate insecticide |
| roodles | roodle + -s, poker rounds at raised stakes |
| roosers | rooser + -s, Scots praisers or flatterers |
| rooving | roove + -ing, riveting with roves |
| ropinesses | ropiness + -es |
| rotamen | rotaman, plural in -men |
| roupier | roupy + -ier, hoarser |
| roupiest | roupy + -iest, hoarsest |
| rowths | rowth + -s, Scots plenty, abundance |
| rubaboos | rubaboo + -s, a voyageur soup |
| rubaces | rubace + -s, stained quartz imitating ruby |
| rubbaboos | rubbaboo + -s, variant of rubaboo |
| rubier | ruby + -er, more ruby in colour |
| rubigos | rubigo + -s, plant rust |
| ruers | ruer + -s, those who rue |
| rumaged | rumage + -ed, rummaged |
| rumaging | rumage + -ing, rummaging |
| rumplier | rumply + -ier |
| rumpliest | rumply + -iest |
| rusines | rusine + -s, deer of the genus Rusa |
| sabeing | sabe + -ing, understanding, savvying |
| sabing | sabe + -ing, spelled without the e |
| saganashes | saganash + -es |
| saguranes | saguran + -es |
| sahras | sahra + -s, Arabic deserts |
| saladangs | saladang + -s, the seladang or Malayan gaur |
| salsillas | salsilla + -s, an edible Bomarea tuber |
| saltnesses | saltness + -es |
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