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Compounding Examples
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 stead
 straw
 time
bee
 bread
 -eater
 herd
 hive
 keeper
 line
 way
beechnut
beef
 eater
#extract
 -faced (u.m.)
 head
 steak
 tongue
bees
 wax
 wing
beet
 field
#sugar
beetle
 -browed (u.m.)
 head
 stock
before
 -cited (u.m.)
 hand
 -mentioned (u.m.)
 -named (u.m.)
behindhand
bell
 -bottomed (u.m.)
 crank
 -crowned (u.m.)
 hanger
 hop
 mouthed
 ringer
 wether
belly
 ache
 band
 buster
 button
 fed (u.m.)
 pinch
belowstairs
belt
 -driven (u.m.)
 saw
bench
 fellow
 -hardened (u.m.)
 made (u.m.)
 mark (nonliteral)
#mark (surveying)
 warmer
bentwing (n., u.m.)
benzo (c.f.)
all one word
berry-brown (u.m.)
best
#man
 seller (n.)
beta
 -glucose
 tron
between
 decks
 whiles
bi (pref.)
 -iliac
rest one word
big
 -eared (u.m.)
 -eyed (u.m.)
 head (ego)
 horn (sheep)
 -horned (u.m.)
 -leaguer
 mouthed
 name (top rank) (n., u.m.)
bill
 back
 beetle
 broker
 fold
 head
 hook
 poster
 sticker
billet
 -doux
 head
billingsgate
bio (c.f.)
 -aeration
 -osmosis
rest one word
birchbark
bird
 bath
 bander
 cage
 call
 catcher
#dog (literal)
 dog (nonliteral)
 -eyed (u.m.)
 -faced (u.m.)
 life
 lime
 lore
 mouthed
 seed
 shot
 watcher
bird's
 -eye
#nest (literal) (n.)
 -nest (n.,u.m., v.)
birth
 bed
#date
 day
 mark
 place
 right
#year
biscuit-shaped (u.m.)
bismuto (c.f.)
all one word
bit
 stock
 -mapped
bitter
 -ender
 head
 sweet
 -tongued (u.m.)
black
 ball (nonliteral)
 -bordered (u.m.)
 -eyed (u.m.)
 guard
 jack
 leg
 list
 mail
 mark
#market (n.)
 -market (u.m., v.)
 -marketer
 out (n., u.m.)
 plate (printing)
 print
 -robed (u.m.)
#sheep (all meanings)
 shirted
 snake
 strap (n.)
 -tie (u.m.)
 top
#widow