The phrase "a compound word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing words that are formed by combining two or more words to create a new meaning.
Example: "The word 'toothbrush' is an example of a compound word."
Alternatives: "a combined word" or "a composite word".
It is a compound word that this newspaper will not print.
BERLIN — Germany, of course, has already concocted a compound word for it: Handyüberwachung.
Touregalo, a compound word, is easily translated by glancing at the restaurant's logo: a rooster standing atop a bull.
Given three words — "trip," "house" and "goal," for example — find a fourth that will complete a compound word with each.
If you absolutely must use a compound word for a parameter, use underscores for a function and CamelCase (with first letter lower case) for methods.
Functions which are not methods in a class should use either lowercase or lowercase with underscores (when the function name is a compound word).
As stimuli, we used the compound remote associate problems [43], where each problem consists of three test words (e.g., back, clip, wall) and the subject needs to generate a solution word (paper), which forms a valid compound word or phrase with each of the three test words (paperback, paperclip, wallpaper).
We recorded, in a passive-listening oddball paradigm, electrical brain responses to stimuli which, in their presentation context, formed a meaningful compound word that was opaque or transparent, or a meaningless pseudo-compound.
I imagine there must be a long compound word in German for the pleasure that can attach itself to a certain variety of tolerable, low-grade melancholia, and that's fine by me.
Ausonius refers to the puzzle as Ostomachion, a Greek compound word formed from the roots of (osteon, bone) and (machē – fight).
The gill rakers of American paddlefish are composed of extensive comb-like filaments believed to have inspired the etymology of the genus name, Polyodon, a Greek compound word meaning "many toothed".
