This is a list of autological words, words which describe themselves.

• en:autological
• : Autological words describe themselves, thus "autological" can with equal consistency be taken to be either autological or not autological (but not both).
• en:drawable, en:pronounceable, en:enunciable...
• : These words all derive from actions the average human being can perform.
• en:English, en:terrestrial...
• : Words that come from what they are describing are autological.
• en:sensical
• : The word itself makes sense.
• en:nonelectric, en:nonnumerical...
• : ''In general, any heterological word prefixed with "non-" and their synonyms.
• en:postindustrial, en:post-impressionist...
• : Any word that has been created after the period without the "post-" prefix.
• en:tonic, en:stressed
• : The phonetic meaning of both of these words express a basic feature of a word, that it is accented.
• en:polysyllabic, en:pentasyllabic
• : Polysyllabic is autological because the word includes more than one syllable.
• en:cognitive, en:coherent, en:comprehensible, en:intelligible, en:understandable...
• : This may depend on the way these words are expressed.
• en:prefixed, en:suffixed, en:circumfixed
• : The prefix in "prefixed" is "pre-", the suffix in "suffixed" is "-ed" and the affixes in "circumfixed" are "circum-" and "-ed".
• en:derived
• : "Derived" came from Old French, which came from Latin.
• en:neologistic
• : At least currently neologistic is a neologism, even if a widely known one.
• en:finite
• : The word finite is a finite word, it does not go on forever.