Sometimes compound words are written separately (nail polish), sometimes with a hyphen (short-sighted) and sometimes as one word (eyelashes). Often new compounds are written as two separate words and, as they become more familiar, they are either connected with a hyphen (-) or made into one word.

8 letter words containing milk milkweed. milkmaid. foremilk. milkfish.

A more complicated kind of similarity is found in compound words. In this case the derived word is formed by combining two root words, as in password. In terms of word families, compounds represent a marriage of two families, so password unites the families of pass (passage, passer-by, etc.)

Orange juice (as it’s been used in this discussion) is entirely parallel to grapefruit juice, lemon juice, etc. It’s a noun-noun compound, with primary accent on the first word, meaning ‘juice of/from oranges’.

Compound words are made up of two or more smaller words that are combined to make a new word with its own meaning. Take the words milk and shake. If we fit these pieces together, we get the compound word milkshake.

When entered as a single word, some objects are recorded as compound phrases. GREENBEAN and PORKCHOP are saved in the history as GREEN BEAN and PORK CHOP, respectively. GREENBEANS and PORKCHOPS become GREEN BEAN and PORK CHOP this also happens with GREENBEANES and PORKCHOPES.

A compound-complex sentence with “apple juice” contains at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Compound nouns