nudo-, nudi-, nud- +
(Latin: naked, uncovered)
denudate
To denude or to make bare.
denude, denudation
1. To divest of covering; to make bare or to strip someone or something bare.
2. To strip away the vegetation that covers an area.
3. In geology, to remove soil from an area or expose underlying layers of rock by weathering and erosion.
gynonudomania
An over-whelming urge to tear off a woman’s clothes.
hypnudism
The practice of, or obsession, for sleeping in the nude.
iatronudia
The desire on the part of a woman to expose herself to a physician under the pretext of being ill.
nude
1. Wearing no clothes, naked.
2. Intended for, or done by, people wearing no clothes.
3. Bare or plain, with no covering or decoration.
4. In law, lacking a legal requisite such as supporting evidence or a contract.
5. An unclothed person, especially a naked figure in a painting or other artistic work.
nudely
1. Descriptive of an unclothed human figure.
2. A reference to a condition of being unclothed.
nudeness
1. Naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
2. Without the usual coverings, furnishings, etc.; bare: "There was a nude stretch of land which was laid waste by brush fires."
3. A reference to a photograph, painting, statue, etc.; being or prominently displaying a representation of the nude human figure.
nudibrachiate
A reference to polyps that have arms or tentacles which are not covered with cilia.
nudibranch
A mollusc of the order Nudibranchiata, having naked gills and no shell.
nudicaul, nudicaulous
In botany, having leafless stems.
nudification
Making nude.
nudiped
1. Having naked feet.
2. A bare-footed animal.
nudiphobia
An abnormal fear of nakedness or nudity.
nudism
1. Going without clothes as a social practice.
2. The belief in, or practice of going nude in social, nonsexualized and frequently mixed-gender groups; specifically, in cultures where going nude is not considered normal in the social situation.
3. The cult or practice of living unclothed sometimes for reasons of health.
In psychology it may refer to a morbid tendency of an individual to remove his or her clothing.
A related "naked, nude; uncovered" word family:
gymno-, gymn-.