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Compounds that end with boat, house, book, room, side, yard, shop, mill, work, maker, holder, keeper, etc., are frequently printed with a hyphen, but when the words that so end are in common use they should be consolidated, as in


 * anteroom
 * bedroom
 * bedside
 * bookbinder
 * bookseller
 * breastworks
 * commonplace
 * daybreak
 * daylight
 * daytime
 * downstairs
 * drawbridge
 * earthworks
 * fireside
 * firewarden
 * foothills
 * framework
 * gamekeeper
 * groundwork
 * handbill
 * handbook
 * headwaters
 * hillside
 * hilltop
 * hotchpot
 * lawsuit
 * lifetime
 * network
 * outhouse
 * quitclaim
 * rainfall
 * roadside
 * sawmill
 * seaside
 * shoemaker
 * steamboat
 * stockholder
 * storehouse
 * storeroom
 * upstairs
 * warehouse
 * watercourse
 * wayfarer
 * wayside
 * workshop

It should be noted that most of the prefixes in these examples are words of one syllable. When the prefix consists of two syllables, as in canal-boat, ferry-house, dwelling-house, water-drop, etc., the words are more acceptable when connected with the hyphen.