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Compounding Examples
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 fitter
 layer
 line
 -shaped (u.m.)
 stem
 walker
 welder
pisci (c.f.)
all one word
pistol-whipped (v.)
piston
 head
#pin
#rod
#valve
pit
#boss
#bull
 -eyed (u.m.)
 fall
 head
 -headed (u.m.)
 hole
 mark
 -marked (u.m.)
 -rotted (u.m.)
 saw
 side
pitch
 -black (u.m.)
 blende
#box
 -colored (u.m.)
 -dark (u.m.)
#darkness
 fork
 hole
 -lined (u.m.)
 man
 -marked (u.m.)
 out (n., u.m.)
#pipe
 up (n., u.m.)
place
 card
 kick
plague-infested (u.m.)
plain
 back (fabric)
 -bodied (u.m.)
 clothes (u.m.)
 clothesman
 -headed (u.m.)
 -looking (u.m.)
 -spoken (u.m.)
 woven (u.m.)
plane
#curve
 load
 -mile
 -parallel (u.m.)
 table (surveying)
plani (c.f.)
all one word
piano (c.f.)
all one word
plant
#food
 life
 site
 plasterboard
plate
 cutter
#glass
 -incased (u.m.)
 layer
 mark
#proof (printing)
 -roll (v.)
 -rolled (u.m.)
platy (c.f.)
all one word
play
 -act (v.)
 back (n., u.m.)
 bill
 book
 boy
 broker
 day
 down (n., u.m.)
 fellow
 goer
 going
 ground
 mate
 off (n., u.m.)
 pen
 reader
 room
 script
 suit
 thing
 time
 wright
#yard
pleasure
 -bent (u.m.)
#boat
 -seeking (u.m.)
 -tired (u.m.)
 -weary (u.m.)
pleo (c.f.)
all one word
pleuro (c.f.)
all one word
plow
 back (n., u.m.)
 -bred (u.m.)
 hand
 horse
 pan
 point
 -shaped (u.m.)
 share
 shoe
 sole
 staff
#tail
 wright
plug
 -and-play
 hole
 -in (n., u.m.)
 tray
 -ugly (n., u.m.)
plumbline
plume-crowned (u.m.)
pluri (c.f.)
all one word
pluto (c.f.)
all one word
pneumato (c.f.)
 -hydato-genetic (u.m.)
rest one word
pneumo (c.f.)
all one word
pock
 mark
 -marked (u.m.)
 -pit (v.)
pocket
 book (purse)
#book (book)
 -eyed (u.m.)
 knife
 -sized (u.m.)
 -veto (v.)
poet
 -artist
#laureate
 -painter
pointblank
Point-to -Point
poison-dipped (u.m.)
pole
 arm
 -armed (u.m.)