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Compounding Rules Print solid combining forms and suffixes, except as indicated elsewhere.


 * portable
 * geography
 * procurement
 * coverage
 * manhood
 * innermost
 * operate
 * selfish
 * partnership
 * plebiscite
 * pumpkin
 * lonesome
 * twenty fold
 * meatless
 * homestead
 * spoonful
 * outlet
 * northward
 * kilogram
 * wavelike
 * clockwise

Print solid words ending in like, but use a hyphen to avoid tripling a consonant or when the first element is a proper name.


 * lifelike
 * lilylike
 * girllike
 * bell-like
 * Scotland-like
 * McArtor-like

Use a hyphen or hyphens to prevent mispronunciation, to ensure a definite accent on each element of the compound, or to avoid ambiguity.


 * anti-hog-cholera serum
 * co-occurrence
 * co-op
 * mid-decade
 * multi-ply (several plies)
 * non-civil-service position
 * non-tumor-bearing tissue
 * pre-midcourse review
 * pre-position (before)
 * pro-choice
 * pro-life
 * re-cover (cover again)
 * re-creation (create again)
 * re-lay (lay again)
 * re-sorting (sort again)
 * re-treat (treat again)
 * un-ionized
 * un-uniformity


 * but
 * rereferred
 * rereviewed

Use a hyphen to join duplicated prefixes.


 * re-redirect
 * sub-subcommittee
 * super-superlative

Print with a hyphen the prefixes ex, self, and quasi.


 * ex-governor
 * ex-serviceman
 * ex-son-in-law
 * ex-vice-president
 * self-control
 * self-educated
 * quasi-academic
 * quasi-argument
 * quasi-corporation
 * quasi-young


 * but
 * selfhood
 * selfsame