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Compounding Examples
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land
#base
 -based (u.m.)
#bird
 borne
 fall
 fast
 fill
 flood
 form
 grabber
 -grant (u.m.)
 holding
 lady
 locked
 look
 lord
 lubber
 mark
 mass
 mine
#office
 owner
 -poor (u.m.)
 right
 scape
 sick
 side
 slide
 slip
 spout
 storm
 wash
 wire
 wrack
lantern-jawed (u.m.)
lap
 belt
 -lap
 robe
 streak
 top
 weld (v.)
 -welded (u.m.)
 -welding (u.m.)
large
 -eyed
 -handed (u.m.)
 -minded (u.m.)
 mouthed
 -scale (u.m.)
lark
 -colored (u.m.)
 spur
laryngo (c.f.)
all one word
last
 -born (u.m.)
 -cited (u.m.)
 -ditcher
 -named (u.m.)
latch
 bolt
 key
 string
late
 -born (u.m.)
 comer
 -lamented (u.m.)
 -maturing (u.m.)
latero (c.f.)
all one word
lath-backed (u.m.)
lathe-bore (v.)
latter
 -day (u.m.)
 most
lattice
#stitch
 work
laughing
#gas
 stock
launch
#pad
 site
laundry#room
law
 -abiding (u.m.)
 book
 breaker
 -fettered (u.m.)
 giver
#office
 suit
lawnmower
lay
 away (n.,u.m.)
 back (n., u.m.)
 -by (n.)
 down (n., u.m.)
 -minded (u.m.)
 off (n., u.m.)
 on (n., u.m.)
 out (n., u.m.)
 up (n., u.m.)
layer
 -on
 -out
 -over
 -up
lazy
 bones
 boots
#guy
 legs
lead
 -alpha
 -burn (v.)
 -filled (u.m.)
 -gray (u.m.)
 -in (n., u.m.)
 line
#line (medical, naut. only)
 off (n., u.m.)
 out (n., u.m.)
#pencil
 time
leaden
 -eyed (u.m.)
 pated
 -souled (u.m.)
leader#line
leaf
 bud
 -clad (u.m.)
 -eating (u.m.)
 -shaped (u.m.)
 stalk
lean
 -faced (u.m.)
 -looking (u.m.)
 -to (n.,u.m.)
leap
 frog
#year
lease
 back (n., u.m.)
 hold
leased-line
leather
 back
 -backed (u.m.)
 -bound (u.m.)
 -brown (u.m.)
 -covered (u.m.)
 head
 neck
 side
 ware
leavetaking
lee-bow (v.)
leech
 eater
#rope
left
 -bank (v.)
#field (sports)
 -hand (u.m.)
 -handed (u.m.)