100 Examples of Compound Words (hyphenated and unscripted)

Hyphenated and unscripted compound words

A compound word is one that is made up of two or more simple words that come together to form a new meaning. For example: opens (simple word) + can (simple word) = can opener (compound word)

How are compound words written?

Hyphenated nouns

Nouns + adjectives joined by hyphen

Examples of hyphenated compound words

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academic-professional	Franco-Germanic	cost benefit
Arab-Israeli	German-Soviet	economic-social
artistic-literary	Hispanic-Argentine	epic-lyrical
artistic-musical	Hispano-Roman	school workshop
artistic-political	historical-administrative	physical-political
Asturian-Leonese	historical-artistic	physiochemical
audio-book	historical-critical	French-Bulgarian
plane-hospital	english-german	French-German
booby trap	Italian-French	vedette-actress
price quality	kilometer-hour	vocal-musician
Cantabrian-Asturian	Mathematical logician	North South
Chilean-Argentine	Portuguese-Spanish	Pereira-Cano
Chinese Japanese	Madrid-Malaga	power-truth
Cinema theatre	Marxist-Leninist	reality-fiction
conservative-liberal	medical-surgical	healing-tibetan
Contentious-administrative	morphological-semantic	social democrat

Examples of compound words without hyphens

bottle opener	two-step	snack
letter opener	stain remover	tentative
easy open	nightstand	figurehead
can opener	snowplow	carousel
airport	cassette player	slingshot
in addition	skyscraper	stumble
approval	rectilinear	sway
welcome	grasshopper	twenty
turning	screensaver	videogame
crestfallen	life jacket	Congratulations
sing mornings	safe passage	Photography
penknife	desktop	photomontage
four-engine	deaf-mute	sunflower
bedspread	Supermarket	seaplane
seventeenth	weave	Bad mood
democracy	spiderweb	I thought wrong

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