Real Words Without Definition
We're sure about this one.
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 |
|---|---|
| stroyers | stroyer + -s |
| stubbling | stubble + -ing, grazing stock on stubble |
| studdies | studdie + -s, Scots anvils |
| stypsises | stypsis + -es |
| subers | suber + -s, cork tissue |
| substratums | substratum + -s, English plural for substrata |
| sudors | sudor + -s, sweats |
| sudsmen | sudsman, plural in -men |
| suffaris | suffari + -s, safaris |
| sugaries | sugary + -ies, sugar-houses or refineries |
| sughed | sugh + -ed, sighed or soughed, of wind |
| sughing | sugh + -ing, soughing |
| sughs | sugh + -s, soughs |
| sulfatized | sulfatize + -ed |
| sulfatizing | sulfatize + -ing |
| sulfonals | sulfonal + -s |
| sulides | sulid + -es, gannets of the Sulidae |
| sulphatized | sulphatize + -ed |
| sulphatizing | sulphatize + -ing |
| sunglows | sunglow + -s |
| sunns | sunn + -s, sunn hemp plants |
| superstratums | superstratum + -s (for superstrata) |
| suppliancies | suppliancy + -ies |
| surgers | surger + -s, things that surge |
| surgier | surgy + -er |
| surgiest | surgy + -est |
| surnamers | surnamer + -s |
| suterberries | suterberry + -ies |
| svarajes | svaraj + -es (swaraj, self-rule) |
| svarajs | svaraj + -s |
| swails | swail + -s, variant of swales |
| sweenies | sweeny + -ies, shoulder atrophy in horses |
| sweepier | sweepy + -er |
| sweepiest | sweepy + -est |
| sweered | sweer + -ed, from Scots sweer, lazy or loath |
| sweltrier | sweltry + -er |
| sweltriest | sweltry + -est |
| swimmier | swimmy + -er |
| swimmiest | swimmy + -est |
| swouned | swoun + -ed, obsolete swooned |
| swouning | swoun + -ing, obsolete swooning |
| swouns | swoun + -s, obsolete swoons |
| sycones | sycon + -es, sponges of sycon type |
| symbiots | symbiot + -s, symbionts |
| synaxaries | synaxary + -ies |
| syncarpies | syncarpy + -ies |
| syncytiomas | syncytioma + -s |
| syncytiomata | syncytioma + -ta, the Greek plural |
| syndesises | syndesis + -es |
| syndesmies | syndesmy + -ies, ligamentous unions |
| synemata | synema + -ta, columns of united filaments |
| synergias | synergia + -s |
| synergidae | synergida + -ae, the synergid cells of the embryo sac |
| synesises | synesis + -es |
| tabbises | tabbis + -es |
| taborins | taborin + -s |
| tachisms | tachism + -s |
| tagrags | tagrag + -s |
| talcked | talck + -ed |
| talcking | talck + -ing |
| talenting | talent + -ing |
| tambacs | tambac + -s |
| tameins | tamein + -s |
| tampalas | tampala + -s |
| tangfishes | tangfish + -es |
| tangleberries | tangleberry + -ies |
| tanglefishes | tanglefish + -es |
| tapemen | tapeman, plural tapemen |
| targed | targe + -ed, Scots for cross-questioned |
| targing | targe + -ing, Scots for cross-questioning |
| tasajillos | tasajillo + -s |
| tattied | tatty + -ed, fitted with tatties, grass screens |
| tawneier | tawney + -er, comparative of the tawney spelling |
| tawneiest | tawney + -est |
| teamworks | teamwork + -s |
| teenfuls | teenful + -s |
| teethier | teethy + -er |
| teethiest | teethy + -est |
| teeting | teet + -ing, Scots for peeping |
| teetotalled | teetotal + -ed, with doubled l |
| telegonies | telegony + -ies |
| telerans | teleran + -s, television radar navigation systems |
| teleses | telesis + -es, plural |
| telfered | telfer + -ed, carried by telpher line |
| telfering | telfer + -ing |
| teniasises | teniasis + -es, double plural of taeniasis |
| tentier | tentie + -er, Scots for more watchful |
| tentiest | tentie + -est, Scots for most watchful |
| terahertzes | terahertz + -es |
| terned | terne + -ed, coated with terne alloy |
| terrases | terrasse + -s, old plural of terraces |
| tesserated | tesserate + -ed, formed of tesserae |
| testacies | testacy + -ies |
| tetracocci | tetracoccus + -i |
| thalamencephalons | thalamencephalon + -s |
| thaumatologies | thaumatology + -ies |
| thawier | thawy + -er |
| thawiest | thawy + -est |
| thawn | thaw + -n, archaic past participle |
| thebaines | thebaine + -s, an opium alkaloid |
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