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Type 1: Typical compound Nouns STRESS ON the FIRST WORD

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Introduction 

Almost all of the examples on Pages 1 to 7 are NOUN 1 + NOUN 2 but a small number are ADJECTIVE + NOUN or some other word + NOUN. This is because sometimes it is more suitable to include these other word combinations within the main set of  NOUN 1 + NOUN 2 combinations because they all are examples of different kinds of NOUN 2. For example, a "stock market" and a "supermarket" are both examples of different kinds of markets.

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ABILITY

language ability

leadership ability

learning ability

 

ABUSE

child abuse

drug abuse

 

ACCIDENT

a mining accident

 

ACCOUNT

a bank account

a charge account

a cheque account (a check account)

a deposit account

a savings account

 

ACHE

a backache

a bellyache

a headache

a heartache

a stomach ache

a toothache

an earache

 

ACT

a balancing act

a circus act

a disappearing act  

a juggling act

a magic act

a song-and-dance act

a vanishing act

the ‘riot act’

 

ADAPTER

a power adapter

a video adaptor

 

ADDICTION (addict)

alcohol addiction

caffeine addiction

drug addiction

gambling addiction

internet addiction

nicotine addiction

a drug addict

 

ADDRESS

a billing address

an email address

 

AGE

a reading age

the Bronze Age

the digital age

the Ice Age

the Information Age

the Iron Age

the Nuclear Age

the Space Age

the Stone Age

school age

 

AGENT/AGENCY

an adoption agency

a booking agent

a credit agency

a dating agency

a KGB agent

a literary agent

a newsagent

a press agency

a press agent

a real-estate agent

a secret-service agent

a shipping agent

a travel agent

a travel agency

an advertising agency

an aid agency

an employment agency

an immigration agent

an introduction agency

 

AID

a band-aid

a hearing aid

a study aid

a teaching aid

a walking aid

 

ALARM

a burglar alarm

a fire alarm

a smoke alarm

an earthquake alarm

 

APPLE

a cooking apple

an eating apple

 

AREA

a catchment area

a conservation area

a disaster area

a no-go area

a picnic area

a rest area

a/the service area

a staging area

the penalty area

the surface area

 

ARM(S)

a firearm

a sidearm

small arms

 

ART

a black art

body art

clip art

calendar art

cave art

children's art

folk art

landscape art

performance art

pop art

 

ASSISTANT

a shop assistant

a teaching assistant

 

ASSOCIATION

The British Naturalists Association

The Canadian Booksellers Association

a motor sports association

a free trade association

a Parent-Teacher Association

 

ATTACK

a counterattack

cyber attacks

a ground attack

a heart attack

a shark attack

a terrorist attack

 

ATTEMPT

a takeover attempt

an assassination attempt

an escape attempt

 

AVERAGE

a batting average

 

AX

a battle ax

a pick ax

an ice ax

 

BAG

a beanbag

a body bag

a book bag

a boxing bag

a camera bag

a carpetbag

a carrier bag

a doggie bag

a duffel bag

a feedbag

a flight bag

a garbage bag

a garment bag

a gasbag (colloquial)

a goody bag

a handbag

a Jiffy bag

a mail bag

a nosebag

a punching bag (= a boxing bag)

a ragbag

a sand bag

a sandwich bag

a shopping bag

a shoulder bag

a sick bag

a sleeping bag

a tea bag

a tool bag

a travel bag

an air bag

 

BALANCE

a bank balance

a beam balance

a counterbalance

a trade balance

 

BALL

a baseball

a basketball

a beach ball

a billiard ball

a bowling ball

a cannonball

a fireball

a football

a fur ball

a golf ball

a hairball

handball

a highball

a meatball

a mothball

a ping-pong ball

a snowball

a soccer ball

a softball

a tennis ball

a volleyball

an eyeball

baseball  

basketball

eight ball

football

handball

hardball

softball

riceballs

 

BAN

a test ban

 

BAND(1)

a brake band

a hair band

a headband

a wedding band

a wristband

an armband

 

BAND(2)

a concert band

a dance band

a marching band

a rock band

 

BANK (1)

a cloud-bank

a fog bank

a river bank

a sandbank

a snow bank

 

BANK (2)

a data bank

a blood bank

a food bank

a savings bank

a sperm bank

an investment bank

a memory bank

 

BAR

candy bar

a crow bar

a coffee bar

a handlebar

a salad bar

a saloon bar

a sandwich bar

a scrollbar

a snack bar

a spacebar

a task bar

 

BAR (2)

a color bar

a sandbar 

 

BARON (=tycoon = magnate)

a press baron

an oil baron

 

BARREL

an oil barrel

a water barrel

 

BARRIER

a crash barrier

a fire barrier

a language barrier

a trade barrier

an import barrier

the sound barrier

 

BARROW

a handbarrow

a wheelbarrow

 

BASE (1)

an airbase

a naval base

 

BASE (2)

a database

a user-base

 

BASKET

a laundry basket

a picnic basket

a shopping basket

a waste-basket

a wastepaper basket (or, a wastepaper basket)

 

BATH

a baby bath

a bird bath

a blood bath

a bubble bath

a foot bath

a mud bath

a sponge bath

a steam bath

an eye bath

 

BATTLE

a gun battle

a street battle

 

BAY

a loading bay

 

BEAM

a balance beam

a cross beam

a moonbeam

a sunbeam

 

BEAN

a black bean

a butterbean

a coffee bean

a green bean

a kidney bean

a lima bean

a soybean

a string bean

 

BEAT  

a drumbeat

a heartbeat 

 

BEATER

a carpet beater

a wife beater

a world-beater

an egg beater

 

BED

a bunk bed

a deathbed

a flowerbed

a riverbed

a seedbed

a waterbed

an airbed

the seabed

 

BEE (1)

a bumble bee

a honey bee

a worker bee

 

BEE  (2)

a spelling bee

 

BELL

a diving bell

a barbell

a bluebell

a doorbell

a dumbbell

an alarm bell

 

BELT

a cartridge belt

a conveyor belt

a fan belt

a garter belt

a lifebelt

a safety belt

a seat belt

the bible belt

the wheat belt

 

BENEFIT (= money)

a death benefit

a disability benefit

a invalidity benefit

a retirement benefit

a sickness benefit

a spouse benefit

an unemployment benefit

 

BERRY

a blackberry  (Br.)

a blackberry (U.S.)

a blueberry

a cranberry

a gooseberry

a mulberry

a raspberry

a strawberry

 

BIKE

a dirt bike

a minibike

a motorbike

a mountain bike

a pushbike

a street bike

a trail bike

an exercise bike

 

BILL

a doctor's bill

a handbill

a heating bill

a hospital bill 

a medical bill

a telephone bill  

a water bill

an electricity bill

a restaurant bill

 

BIN

theloony bin

a bread bin

a dustbin

a flour bin

a garbage bin

a money bin

a rubbish bin

a trash bin

a waste bin

recycling bin

 

BINDER/BINDING

a bookbinder

a ring binder

a spellbinder

 

BIRD

a blackbird

a bowerbird

a game bird

a humming bird (see Type 9)

a jailbird (slang)

a ladybird

a mynah bird

a song bird

a wading bird (see Type 9)

a water bird

     

BITE

an insect bite

a dog bite

a love bite

a mosquito bite

a snake bite

 

BLADE

a knife blade

a razor blade

a roller blade

a rotor blade

a rudder blade

a saw blade

a shoulder blade

a switch-blade

a wiper blade

 

BLAST / BLASTING

a bomb blast

a fire blast

a windblast

an air blast

sandblasting

 

BLAZER

a hell blazer

a star blazer

a trail-blazer

 

BLOCK (1) (= bloackage)

a filter block

a roadblock

a supply block

a writer's block

an air block

sun block

 

BLOCK (2)

a building block

a butcher's block

a cellblock

a chopping block

a cinderblock

a starting block

a stumbling block

a tower block

a trade block

an apartment block

an auction block

an engine block

an office block

 

BLOSSOM

a peach blossom

a lemon blossom

an orange blossom

a cherry blossom

 

BLOW

a body blow

a death blow

a hammer blow

 

BLOWING / BLOWER

a glassblower

whistle blowing

a whistle blower

 

BOARD

a backboard

a baseboard

a billboard

a blackboard

a breadboard

a bulletin board

a chalkboard

a checkerboard

a chopping-board

a cheese board

a chessboard

a circuit board

a clapperboard

a clipboard

a cupboard (Note the unusual pronunciation of this common word)

a cutting board

a dartboard

a dashboard

a diving board

a drawing board

a draining board

a fingerboard

a floorboard

a footboard

a headboard

a keyboard

a kickboard

a leaderboard

a message board

a mortarboard

a motherboard

a notice board

a pegboard

plasterboard

a sand board / sand boarding

a sailboard

a scoreboard

a sideboard

a skateboard

a skirting board

a snowboard

a sounding board

a springboard

a surfboard

a switchboard

a whiteboard

an emery board

an indicator board

an ironing board

cardboard

chipboard

fibre board (fiber board)

weatherboard

 

BOAT

a canal boat

a dreamboat

a fishing boat

a gravy boat

a houseboat

a lifeboat

a longboat

a motorboat

a paddle boat

a pleasure boat

a powerboat

a rowing boat

a sailing boat

a showboat

a speedboat

a tug boat

 

BODY

an antibody

a busybody

a dogsbody

a homebody

ore bodies

 

BOMB

an atom bomb (or, an atomic bomb)

a car bomb

a cluster bomb

a firebomb

a letter bomb

a neutron bomb

a parcel bomb

a petrol bomb

a smart bomb

a smoke bomb

a stink bomb

a suicide bomb

a time bomb

a water bomb

 

BOND

a treasury bond

a savings bond

 

BONE

a backbone

a breastbone

a cheekbone

a fish bone

a herringbone

a jaw bone

a leg bone

a thigh bone

a wishbone

an ankle bone

an arm bone

the funny bone

 

BOOK

a bank book

a casebook

a cash book

a cheque book (U.S. = check book)

a coloring book

a comic book

a cookery book (Br.) = a cookbook (U.S.)

a copybook

a guest book

a guidebook

a handbook

a matchbook

a notebook

a passbook

a phone book

a phrasebook

a picture book

a pocketbook

a record book 

a reference book

a schoolbook

a scrapbook

a sketchbook

a telephone book

a textbook

a visitor's book

a workbook

a writing book

a yearbook

an account book

an address book

an appointment book

an audio book

an exercise book  

 

BOOTS

construction boots

gumboots

a hiking boot

rain boots

ski boots

 

BOTTLE

a feeding bottle

 

BOW

a crossbow

an elbow

a longbow (also = Type 3, adjective + noun joined)

a rainbow

a violin bow

 

BOWL

a dustbowl

a fishbowl

a mixing bowl

a salad bowl

a soup bowl

a sugar bowl

a wash bowl

 

BOX

a ballot box

a breadbox

a call box

a cat box

a chatterbox

a checkbox

a collection box

a donation box

a fare box

a fire box

a hatbox

a hotbox

an icebox

a jewelry box

a jukebox

a jury box

a letter box

a litter box

a lunch box

a mail box

a matchbox

a moneybox

a pillar box

a phone box

a press box

a sandbox

a sentry box

a shoebox

a tool box

a voice box

 

BOXING

shadow boxing

 

BOY

a ball boy

a bellboy

a bully boy

a busboy

a cabin boy

a choirboy

a city boy

a country boy

a courier boy

a cowboy

a delivery boy

a farm boy

a lover boy

a newsboy

a pageboy

a paper boy

a schoolboy

a stable boy

a water boy

a whipping boy

an altar boy

an office boy

 

BRAKE

an air brake

a disc brake

a footbrake

a handbrake

an emergency brake

 

BRANCH

a bank branch

an olive branch

 

BREAD

crisp bread

shortbread

sweetbread

 

BREAK

a cigarette break

a coffee break

a fire break

a jailbreak

a lunch break

a service break

a tax break

a tea break

daybreak

heartbreak

 

BREAKER

a circuit breaker

a code breaker

a groundbreaker

a law-breaker

a rock breaker

a strike breaker

a tie-breaker

an icebreaker

 

BREEDER

a bird breeder

a cat breeder

a dog breeder

a stock breeder

 

BRIDGE

a drawbridge

a footbridge

a suspension bridge

a weighbridge

 

BROKER

an insurance broker

a pawnbroker

a peace broker

a power broker

a real-estate broker

a stockbroker

 

BROTHER

a blood brother

a half-brother

a step brother

 

BRUSH

a clothes brush

a hairbrush

a nail brush

a paintbrush

a scrubbing brush

a toothbrush

an airbrush

 

BUG

a bedbug

a computer bug

a firebug

a ladybug

a leaf bug

a litter bug

a water bug

the ‘love bug’  

the ‘travel bug’

 

BUGGY

a beach buggy

a dune buggy

 

BUILDING (1)

an administration building

an apartment building

an exhibition building

an office building

a recreation building

a residential building

 

BUILDING (2)

body building (a body builder)

brain building

bridge building

character building

nation building

ship building

team building

 

BULB

a flashbulb

a light bulb

 

BULLETIN

an information bulletin

a news bulletin

 

BUREAU

the tax bureau

the weather bureau

 

BURGER

a cheeseburger

a hamburger

 

BURN

a cigarette burn

a friction burn

a rope burn

a sideburn

heartburn

a powder burn

sunburn

 

BURNER / BURNING

a back burner

a coal burner

an after burner

an incense burner

wood-burning

 

BUSINESS

agribusiness

e-business

"funny business"

show business

the airline business

the computer business

the fashion business

 

BUTTON

a belly button

a call button

a coat button

a reset button

a shirt button

the fast-forward button

the ‘panic button’

the start button

the stop button

 

BUYER

a car buyer

a home buyer

a property buyer

 

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