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Compound Words
Compound words are formed by two distinct words. Examples include: newspaper, anybody, eyebrow.
3,798 Questions
Two or more words put together to create a single complex idea is known as what?
Two or more words put together to create a single complex idea could be called a phrasal compound.
Kinds of compound words and their meaning?
There are three types of compound words:
closed compound word - two different words put together to make a new word
examples - boyfriend, without, mankind
hyphenated compound word - i.e. level-headed, fun-loving, mind-boggling
open compound word - two words that go together but there's a space between them examples: bus driver, candy cane, draft pick brown bag
10 examples of compound words?
- birthmark
- blackboard
- cattail
- mailbox
- nighttime
- upshot
- seesaw
- softball
- teapot
- waterfall
What are some 6 letter compound words?
- airway
- anyone
- anyway
- armpit
- backup
- become
- bedpan
- byline
- hotbox
- hotpot
- icebox
- indoor
- format
- lineup
- lockup
- madman
- outbox
- output
- outrun
- peanut
- pigsty
- runway
- seaman
- seaway
- seesaw
- subway
- Sunday
- suntan
- teabag
- teapot
- windup
What are compound words that have the word win in it?
Compound words that use the word 'win' are, winless, and winnable.
What are some compound words with the word dress?
- address
- dressmaker
- dressmaking
- headdress
- nightdress
- sundress
- wardress
Is private life a compound word or compound words?
'Private life' are two individual words, not compound.
What are some big words one can use to insult someone?
defenestrate: To throw out of a window.
Enfenestrate: To throw in a window.
So if you don't use this I am going to defenestrate you and the enfenestrate you.
What are some compound words with the word fast?
compound words beginning with fast:
- breakfast
- colorfast
- steadfast
ending with fast:
- fastball
What are compound words with the words home?
- homeboy
- hometown
- homecoming
- homebody
- homeroom
- homespun
- homemade
- homeland
- homework
- homesick
- homestretch
- homeward
- homemaker
Can you give 100 examples of compound nouns?
Examples of compound nouns:
- afterthought
- aluminum foil
- back door
- Baseball
- Basketball
- bathrobe
- bathtub
- bedroom
- best friend
- breakwater
- broomstick
- cartwheel
- cereal bowl
- cha-cha
- cheer-leading
- close-up
- cobweb
- cornflakes
- cure-all
- Diamondback Parkway (bicycle)
- Disneyland
- door stop
- down time
- driveway
- earlobes
- eggplant
- fact-finder
- football
- footstool
- front-runner
- grapevine
- grasshopper
- hairdo
- headache
- heartache
- highlight
- highway
- homework
- hot dog
- Johnson (originating from son of John)
- keepsake
- laugh lines
- living room
- lunchbox
- marshmallow
- moonbeam
- mother-in-law
- mothers-in-law
- mousetrap
- national anthem
- necktie
- notebook
- pancakes
- passer-by
- password
- pet shop
- photograph
- porthole
- postcard
- pothole
- raincoat
- roadway
- rocket ships
- school book
- self-help
- self assurance
- shortcakes
- sidewalks
- six-packs
- skating rink
- softball
- southpaw
- spendthrift
- spokesman
- Subway Sandwich Shop
- sweatshirt
- swimming pool
- swimsuit
- tennis racket
- tennis shoe
- The Grenbrier Classic (Golf tournament)
- The Homestead Act
- time line
- toadstool
- toenail
- toothpaste
- twelve-year-old
- U-turn
- understanding
- underworld
- video game
- voice mails
- waiting rooms
- Warwick New York (hotel)
- waterfall
- watermelon
- waterwheel
- Waterworld (movie title)
- Whitehall, New York
- windmill
What is the Compound word for kitchen cabinet for storing cups and plates?
cupboard as in a board for cups maybe?
- highway
- highlight
- highpoint
- highboy
- highball
- highbrow
- highland
- highlighter
- hightail
Compound nouns list from a to z?
A compound noun is a word made up of two or more words put together to make a word with its own meaning. Examples:
- airplane
- bedroom
- cottage cheese
- drive-in
- egg beater
- feedback
- grasshopper
- haircut
- Iceland
- jump-rope
- keepsake
- lunchroom
- makeup
- New York
- onlooker
- passer-by
- question mark
- rainfall
- sister-in-law
- train station
- underworld
- vegetable bin
- wallpaper
- x-ray
- yacht club
- zoo keeper
What are some compound words with birth?
- afterbirth
- birthday
- birthmark
- birth certificate
- birthright
- childbirth
- stillbirth
- birthplace
- birthstone
