Compounding Rules
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6.30.
Print solid combining forms and suffixes, except as indicated elsewhere.
- portable
- geography
- procurement
- coverage
- manhood
- innermost
- operate
- selfish
- partnership
- plebiscite
- pumpkin
- lonesome
- twenty fold
- meatless
- homestead
- spoonful
- outlet
- northward
- kilogram
- wavelike
- clockwise
6.31.
Print solid words ending in like, but use a hyphen to avoid tripling a consonant or when the first element is a proper name.
- lifelike
- lilylike
- girllike
- bell-like
- Scotland-like
- McArtor-like
6.32.
Use a hyphen or hyphens to prevent mispronunciation, to ensure a definite accent on each element of the compound, or to avoid ambiguity.
- anti-hog-cholera serum
- co-occurrence
- co-op
- mid-decade
- multi-ply (several plies)
- non-civil-service position
- non-tumor-bearing tissue
- pre-midcourse review
- pre-position (before)
- pro-choice
- pro-life
- re-cover (cover again)
- re-creation (create again)
- re-lay (lay again)
- re-sorting (sort again)
- re-treat (treat again)
- un-ionized
- un-uniformity
- but
- rereferred
- rereviewed
6.33.
Use a hyphen to join duplicated prefixes.
- re-redirect
- sub-subcommittee
- super-superlative
6.34.
Print with a hyphen the prefixes ex, self, and quasi.
- ex-governor
- ex-serviceman
- ex-son-in-law
- ex-vice-president
- self-control
- self-educated
- quasi-academic
- quasi-argument
- quasi-corporation
- quasi-young
- but
- selfhood
- selfsame
