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Old 16-Mar-2006, 19:32
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What´s the name of the words that are form with a (-).
For example:
flat-footed
cycle boom-bust
hrad-nosed
out-of-the-box thinking
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Old 16-Mar-2006, 22:10
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Hello PWV

They're compound words. You can tell they're compound words because they're hyphenated.

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