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What are Compound Words?

Compound words are made by joining two or more words; the combination creates a new word. They can be formed using two nouns, e.g. basketball, two non-nouns, e.g. blowup, or a noun and non-noun, e.g. sunrise. It is important to note that the words do not always keep their original meaning, e.g. breakfast. Our list of compound words contains 500 words.

There are three types of compound words:

• Closed compound words, e.g., football, peanut,
• Open compound words, e.g., cell phone, high school, and
• Hyphenated compound words, e.g., in-depth, runner-up.

List of Compound Words

To determine if a compound word is one word, two words or hyphenated, use a dictionary to look up the word or our lists below. The list below excludes both fractions and compound numbers from 21 to 91. These words are hyphenated, e.g., two-thirds, one-half, thirty-nine and ninety-one.

Closed Words

These words have no spaces. Our list contains hundreds of words, so we organized them in alphabetical order. Click on a letter below to obtain a list of those compound words.

Open Words

Open compound words have a space between the words. The following are open compound words:

Hyphenated Words

The list below excludes spelled out fractions and compound numbers from 21 to 91. Please note you hyphenate all spelled out fractions, e.g., two-thirds, one-half, and compound numbers from 21 to 91, e.g., thirty-nine, ninety-one. The following are hyphenated compound words:

Source: Fry, E. B., Ph.D. & Kress, J.E., Ed.D. (2006). The Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists 5th Edition. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

Merriam-Webster Children’s Dictionary, 3rd Edition 2008.

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noun Music.

metrical time beaten so that three beats are counted as one; time in which each beat is divisible by three.

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Origin of compound time

First recorded in 1840–50

Words nearby compound time

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How to use compound time in a sentence

• Since the 1950s, fluoride has adapted itself to the prevailing concerns of the time.

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• But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

  In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.

  Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• As far as I can tell, this magazine spent as much time making fun of French politicians as it did of Muslims or Islam.

  Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

• Thus, more time is spent organization and obtaining ones free of failings.

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• It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'

  The Wave|Algernon Blackwood

• The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.

  The Wave|Algernon Blackwood

• About this time the famous Philippine painter, Juan Luna (vide p. 195), was released after six monthsʼ imprisonment as a suspect.

  The Philippine Islands|John Foreman

• I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

• Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

  Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl

British Dictionary definitions for compound time

compound time

noun

See compound 1 (def. 16a)

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Sentence with the word "time"

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