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 |
|---|---|
| vulvitises | vulvitis + -es |
| wabblier | wabbly + -er, variant of wobblier |
| wabbliest | wabbly + -est, variant of wobbliest |
| wadmels | wadmel + -s, coarse woollen cloth |
| wadmols | wadmol + -s, coarse woollen cloth |
| waenesses | waeness + -es, Scots woefulness |
| waffies | waffie + -s, Scots vagabonds |
| wamefous | wamefou + -s, Scots bellyfuls |
| wanier | wany + -er, more marked by wane (of timber) |
| waniest | wany + -est, most marked by wane |
| wantages | wantage + -s, deficiencies |
| warsled | warsle + -ed, Scots wrestled |
| warslers | warsler + -s, Scots wrestlers |
| warsles | warsle + -s |
| warsling | warsle + -ing |
| warstled | warstle + -ed, Scots wrestled |
| warstles | warstle + -s |
| warstling | warstle + -ing |
| wasteries | wasterie + -s, extravagances |
| wastries | wastrie + -s, extravagances |
| watapes | watape + -s, plural of watap |
| watchcries | watchcry + -ies |
| wattapes | wattape + -s, a spelling of watap |
| waxinesses | waxiness + -es |
| waygoings | waygoing + -s, departures |
| waymen | plural of wayman, a traveller or road worker |
| weatherstrippers | weatherstripper + -s |
| wefted | weft + -ed, provided with a weft |
| weiring | weir + -ing, damming with a weir |
| wellaways | wellaway + -s, cries of alas |
| weneth | wene (ween) + -eth, he supposes |
| wennier | wenny + -er, more covered with wens |
| wenniest | wenny + -est, most covered with wens |
| whealed | wheal + -ed, marked with weals |
| whealing | wheal + -ing, raising weals |
| wheelabrated | wheelabrate + -ed |
| wheelabrating | wheelabrate + -ing |
| wheeped | wheep + -ed |
| wheeping | wheep + -ing |
| wheeps | wheep + -s |
| whelkier | whelky + -er, more covered with whelks |
| whelkiest | whelky + -est |
| whiffleries | whifflery + -ies |
| whigmaleeries | whigmaleery + -ies |
| whimmier | whimmy + -er, more full of whims |
| whimmiest | whimmy + -est |
| whinnier | whinny + -er, more overgrown with whins |
| whinniest | whinny + -est |
| whishted | whisht + -ed, hushed |
| whishting | whisht + -ing |
| whishts | whisht + -s |
| whiskerandos | whiskerando + -s |
| whistlefishes | whistlefish + -es, rocklings |
| whitracks | whitrack + -s, Scots weasels |
| whooses | whoose + -s, informal thingamajigs |
| whoosies | whoosy + -ies, thingamajigs |
| whoosises | whoosis + -es, thingamajigs |
| whosises | whosis + -es, thingamajigs |
| whuttering | whutter + -ing |
| wickapes | wickape + -s, leatherwood |
| wicopies | wicopy + -ies, leatherwood |
| wifedoms | wifedom + -s |
| windburning | windburn + -ing |
| windfishes | windfish + -es |
| wineier | winey + -er |
| wineiest | winey + -est |
| wingbows | wingbow + -s |
| wingier | wingy + -er |
| wingiest | wingy + -est |
| winnocks | winnock + -s, Scots windows |
| wirinesses | wiriness + -es |
| witchering | witcher + -ing, bewitching |
| withins | within + -s, inner parts |
| withouts | without + -s, outer parts |
| wizes | wize + -s, Scots wise, to guide or direct |
| wizzens | wizzen + -s, Scots, the throat or windpipe |
| woadwaxes | woadwax + -es, dyer's greenweed |
| woalds | woald + -s, weld, the dyer's plant |
| woenesses | woeness + -es |
| woldes | wold + -es, old plural of wold |
| wombier | womby + -er, more hollow |
| wombiest | womby + -est |
| wongen | wong + -en, old plural of wong, a meadow |
| wonners | wonner + -s, Scots wonders |
| woodlores | woodlore + -s |
| woodwaxes | woodwax + -es, dyer's greenweed |
| wooralis | woorali + -s, curare |
| wooraris | woorari + -s, curare |
| wormroots | wormroot + -s |
| wornnesses | wornness + -es |
| worses | worse + -s, from the obsolete verb to worse |
| worsets | worset + -s, dialectal worsted yarn |
| wrangs | wrang + -s, Scots wrongs |
| xenobiologies | xenobiology + -ies |
| xenogamies | xenogamy + -ies, cross-pollination |
| xenogenies | xenogeny + -ies |
| xeromata | xeroma + -ta, abnormal dryness of the eye |
| xeruses | xerus + -es, African ground squirrels |
| xiphosterna | xiphosternum + -a, Latin plural |
| xylotomies | xylotomy + -ies |
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