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Type 1: Typical compound Nouns STRESS ON the FIRST WORD

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CABINET

a china cabinet

a file cabinet

a filing cabinet

a medicine cabinet

 

CAGE

a birdcage

a lion’s cage

the ribcage

 

CAKE

a birthday cake

a cattle cake

a cheesecake

a chocolate cake

a Christmas cake

a cream cake

a cupcake

a fruitcake

 hotcakes

an oatcake

a pancake

a pound cake

a rock cake

a sponge cake

a wedding cake

angel cake

beefcake (slang)

oilcake

 

CALL

bird calls

a clarion call

a catcall

a conference call

a courtesy call

a curtain call

a house call

a judgment call

a phone call = a telephone call

a reverse-charge call

("Reverse-charge" is a Type 2 noun, a rare example of a Type 2 that is written with a hyphen. The first noun has the main stress, which is on the second word here.)

a roll call

a wake-up call

 

CAMERA

a TV camera

a movie camera

a video camera

 

CAMP (1)

a base camp

a boot camp

a boy scout camp

a concentration camp

a construction camp

a death camp

a fat camp

a holiday camp

a labour camp

a mining camp

a motor camp

a prison camp

a refugee camp

a scout camp

a summer camp  (not Type 4)

a training camp

a transit camp

an army camp

 

CAMP (2)

the communist camp

the conservative camp

the socialist camp

 

CAMPAIGN

a culling campaign

a publicity campaign

a smear campaign

a whispering campaign

an advertising campaign

an election campaign

 

CAN

a garbage can

a gas can (= a petrol can)

a spray can

a trash can

a watering can

an aerosol can

an oil can

 

CAP

a baseball cap

a bathing cap

a blasting cap

a filler cap

a hubcap

a shower cap

a swimming cap

an ice cap

foolscap

"thinking cap"

 

CAR

a boxcar

a bumper car

a cable car

a courtesy car

a dining car

a dodgem car

a hire car

a motorcar

a passenger car  

a patrol car

a racing car

a rental car

a restaurant car

a saloon car (U.S. = a sedan)

a sidecar

a sleeping car

a sports car

a squad car

a stock car

a streetcar

a trolley car

an estate car

an observation car

 

CARD

a bank card

a baseball card

a birthday card

a boarding card

a business card

a calling card

a cash card

a charge card

a Christmas card

a courtesy card

a credit card

a cricket card

a cue card

a debit card

a discount card

a face card

a flashcard

a gold card

a graphics card

a green card

a greetings card

an identity card

an index card

an integrated circuit card

a key card

a library card

a membership card

a PC card

a phone card

a picture card

a place card

a playing card

a postcard

a punch card

a ration card

a report card

a score card

a scratch card

a SIM card

a smart card

a sound card

a swipe card

a sympathy card

a tarot card

a test card

a timecard

a trading card

a visiting card

a wild card

an ATM card

 

Exceptions:

a "red card" and "a yellow card" are Type 2]

 

CARE

childcare

daycare

dental care

foster care

haircare

hand care

healthcare

medical care

postnatal care

pre-natal care

skin care

 

CARRIER

a car carrier

a cargo carrier

a lantern carrier

a mail carrier

a people carrier

a personnel carrier

a spear carrier

a troop carrier

a water carrier

an aircraft carrier

an infant carrier

an ore carrier

 

CARRIAGE

a baby carriage

a freight carriage

a gun carriage

a train carriage

a smoking carriage

the undercarriage

 

CART

a dog cart

a dustcart

a goat cart

a go-cart

a golf cart

a handcart

a serving cart

a shopping cart

a tea cart

a water cart

 

CARVING

bone carving

ice carving

rock carving

(a) woodcarving

a woodcarver

 

CASE (1)

an attaché case

a bookcase

a briefcase

a cigarette case

a crankcase

a notecase

a packing case

a pencil-case

a pillowcase

a showcase

a staircase

a suitcase

a vanity case

 

CASE (2)

a basket case (colloquial)

a nutcase (slang)

a test case

 

CASSETTE

a video cassette

 

CAT

an alley cat

a bearcat

a hell cat

a house cat

a kitty cat

a pussy cat

 

CATCHER

a cowcatcher

a dogcatcher

a dust catcher

a flycatcher

a grass catcher

a mouse catcher

a rat catcher

an eye catcher

 

CELL

blood cells

a brain cell

 

 

CELLAR

a beer cellar

a coal cellar

a cold cellar

a wine cellar

 

CENTRE (= CENTER)

a breeding centre

a business centre

a call centre

a community centre

a computing centre = a computer centre

a data centre

a day-care centre

a detention centre

a first-aid centre

a fitness centre

a garden centre

a health centre

a leisure centre

a manufacturing centre

a medical centre

a recreation centre

a research centre

a service centre

a shopping centre

a sports centre

a study centre

a trade centre

a training centre

an arts centre

an employment centre

an exhibition centre

an information centre

the financial centre

 

CEREMONY

a coming-of-age ceremony

a flag-raising ceremony

a graduation ceremony

a groundbreaking ceremony

a marriage ceremony

a naming ceremony

a tea ceremony

a wedding ceremony

an induction ceremony

 

CERTIFICATE

a birth certificate 

a death certificate

a marriage certificate

a medical certificate

 

CHAIN

a bicycle chain

a discount chain

a door chain

a drive chain

the food chain

a key chain

a retail chain

a mountain chain

a supermarket chain

 

CHAIR

an armchair

a bath chair

a beach chair

a deckchair

an easy chair

a highchair  

a potty chair

a rocking chair

a sedan chair

a wheelchair

 

CHAMBER

a combustion chamber

a gas chamber

a torture chamber

 

CHAMPION

a chess champion

a swimming champion

a ping-pong champion

a table tennis champion

 

CHOCOLATE

drinking chocolate

 

CHANGE

a sea change

a name change

an oil change

a program change

a title change

climate change

 

CHARGE (1)

a service charge

a cover charge

 

CHARGE (2)

a storage charge

a battery charger

a depth charge

 

CHART

a bar chart

a pie chart

a sales chart

a temperature chart

a weather chart

an eye chart

 

CHECK

a  crosscheck

a bed check

a body check

a credit check

a door check

a health check

a speed check

a spell check

a spot check

 

CHEQUE (U.S.=CHECK)

a bank cheque

a cashiers cheque

a pay cheque

a traveller’s cheque (a traveler’s check)

 

CHIEF

a fire chief

a party chief

a police chief

a station chief

 

CHILD

a brainchild

a grandchild

a love-child

a step child

 

CHILDREN

schoolchildren

grandchildren

street children

 

CLAIM

a baggage claim

a counterclaim

a damage claim

a disability claim

a land claim

a mining claim

an insurance claim

 

CLASS (1)

business class

economy class

first class

second class

the criminal class

the middle class

the ruling class

the underclass

the upper class

the working class

third class

tourist class

 

CLASS (2)

a Chinese class

a maths class = (a math class)

a night class

a Physics class

a science class

an English class

 

CLEANER

an air cleaner

a bathroom cleaner

a pipe cleaner

a street cleaner

a vacuum cleaner

a window cleaner

 

CLERK

a booking clerk

 

CLIMBING /CLIMBER

rock climbing

a social climber

mountain climbing

 

CLIP

a hair clip

a nose clip

a paper clip

 

CLIPPERS

hair clippers

hedge clippers

nail clippers

 

CLOCK

a cuckoo clock

a chess clock

a grandfather clock

a wall clock

a water clock

an alarm clock

the body clock

 

CLOTH

cheesecloth

oilcloth

a dishcloth

a face cloth

a table cloth

a washcloth

 

CLOTHES

bedclothes

evening clothes

street clothes

Sunday clothes

swaddling clothes

work clothes

 

CLUB

a book club

a country club

a fan club

a football club

a health club

a hiking club

a nightclub

a service club

a social club

a sports club

 

COAL

coking coal

steaming coal

 

COAT

a duffle coat

a dustcoat

a lab coat

an overcoat

a petticoat

a raincoat

a sports coat

 

CODE

a bar code

a color code

a penal code

a postal code

a postcode

a zip code

the highway code

 

COLLECTOR

a coin collector

a garbage collector

a stamp collector

a tax collector

a ticket collector

 

COLLECTION

a stamp collection

a coin collection

a butterfly collection

a rock collection

a shell collection

a matchbox collection  

 

COLLEGE

a technical college

a training college

 

COLUMN

the steering column

 

COMER

(see Type 3)

a first comer

a latecomer

a newcomer

 

COMMITTEE

a planning committee

a review committee

a standing committee

a steering committee

a workers’ committee

an election committee

an organizing committee  

 

COMPANY

a bus company (= a bus line)

a cleaning company

a clothes manufacturing company

a construction company

a demolition company

a distribution company

a finance company

a holding company

a manufacturing company

a media company

a paper manufacturing company 

a plumbing company

a publishing company

a securities company

a shell company

a shipping company

a software company

a taxi company

a trading company

an advertising company

an entertainment company

an import-export company

an insurance company

 

COMPLEX (1)

a building complex

a housing complex

a shopping complex

an apartment complex

an entertainment complex

an office complex

the military-industrial complex

 

 

COMPLEX (2)

a guilt complex

a persecution complex

an inferiority complex

an Oedipus Complex

 

CONDITION

a heart condition

a skin condition

 

CONDITIONER

an air conditioner (U.S.  British English is Type 4 stress)

fabric conditioner

hair conditioner

soil conditioner

water conditioner

 

CONDITIONS

living conditions

market conditions

ski conditions

weather conditions

working conditions

 

CONDUCTOR

a band conductor

a bus conductor

a heat conductor

a train conductor

an orchestra conductor

 

CONE

a fir cone

 

CONFERENCE

a press conference

a news conference (similar to a press conference)

a video conference

 

CONTEST

an archery contest

an athletic contest

a beauty contest

a bidding contest

an endurance contest

a popularity contest

a singing contest

a spelling contest

a talent contest

a weightlifting contest

a speech contest

 

CONTROL

arms control

birth control

crowd control

the cruise control

damage control

disease control

flood control

ground control (or Type 4 ground control)

gun control

insect control

pest control

price control

quality control

riot control

risk control

thought control

traffic control

 

COOKER

a pressure cooker

a rice cooker

 

CORN

pop corn

sweetcorn

 

CORPS

(Note the pronunciation of "corps")

the air corps

the army corps

the diplomatic corps

the engineer corps

the marine corps

the medical corps

the Peace Corps

the press corps

the signals corps

 

COSTS

administration costs

advertising costs

equipment costs

heating costs

labor costs

management costs

manufacturing costs

operating costs

operational costs

promotional costs

running costs

start-up costs

transportation costs

 

COUNT

a blood count

a headcount

a body count

a word count

a white-cell count

a red-cell count

 

COUNTER (1)

a bean counter

a Geiger counter

a head counter

a vote counter

 

COUNTER (2)

a bargain counter

a checkout counter

an enquiry counter

a lunch counter

 

COURSE

an English course  ("English" = 英文)

a college course

a collision course

a correspondence course

a degree course

a golf course

an obstacle course

a racecourse

a university course

a water course

 

COURT

a basketball court

a food court

a law court

a squash court

a tennis court

a volleyball court

 

COVER

a bedcover

a book cover

a car cover

a dustcover

an album cover

an engine cover

air cover

cloud cover

flight cover

 

CRAFT (1)

a hovercraft

a landing craft

a pleasure craft

a space craft

an aircraft

an assault craft

 

CRAFT (2)

stagecraft

statecraft

witchcraft

woodcraft

a handicraft

 

CRASH

a plane crash

a car crash

 

CRATE

a packing crate

 

CREAM

barrier cream

cold cream

face cream

hand cream

ice cream (See audio on right-hand side of that page)  Some people also pronounce it as, ice cream

salad cream

shaving cream

whipping cream

 

CREW

an aircrew

a film crew

a ground crew

 

CRIME

a computer crime

a hate crime

a war crime

cyber crime

street crime

 

CRIMINAL

a war criminal

a computer criminal

 

CRITIC

a literary critic

a music critic

a theater critic

an art critic

 

CROP  (1)

a cash crop

a cereal crop

a citrus crop

a root crop

a subsistence crop

 

CROP  (2)

a riding crop

 

CRY

a battle cry

a rallying cry

a war cry

 

CRUISER

a battle cruiser

a landcruiser

 

CRUNCH

a credit crunch

a power crunch

 

CUBE

an ice cube

a stock cube  (stock is a kind of soup)

a sugar cube

 

CULTURE

agriculture

aquaculture

cell culture

a counterculture

cyber culture

horticulture

mariculture

pop culture

sylviculture

tissue culture

 

CUP

a buttercup

a coffee cup

an egg cup

a suction cup

a teacup

a measuring cup

 

CURTAIN

an air curtain

a fire curtain

a shower curtain

 

CURVE

a learning curve

 

CUSHION

an air cushion

a pincushion

a seat cushion

 

CUT

a basin cut

a budget cut

a cold cut

a crew cut

a crosscut

a haircut

a power cut

a price cut

a salary cut

a shortcut

a spending cut

a sword cut

a tariff cut

a woodcut

 

CUTTER

a stonecutter

 

CUTTING

a press cutting

 

CYCLE

a business cycle

a life cycle

the lunar cycle

the nitrogen cycle

the operation cycle

the processing cycle

 

DAMAGE

brain damage

 

DANCE, DANCING & DANCER

a ballet dancer

a belly dance

break-dancing

a folk dance

folk dancing

rap dancing

a sword dance

 

DATE

the closing date

a completion date

a delivery date

a due date

a filing date

a mailing date

a settlement date

an expiry date

 

DAY

Boxing Day

a birthday

a field day

a holiday

a school day

a speech-day

a wedding day

a workday

April Fool’s Day

Doomsday

Fathers’ Day

heyday

Judgment Day

Mayday

Mothers’ Day

pay day

Valentine’s Day

washing day

a wedding day

 

DEER

a musk deer

a reindeer

 

DELAY

a rain delay

a time delay

a weather delay

 

DEN

a gambling den

 

DEPARTMENT

the Advertising Department (company)

the Chemistry Department (university)

the Commerce Department (US govt.)

the Defense Department (US govt.)

the Electrical Appliance Department

the Fire Department

the Health Department

the Mathematics Department (uni.)

the Menswear Department (store)

the Personnel Department

the Philosophy Department (university)

the police department

the Physics Department (university)

the Purchasing Department

the Research Department

the Sales Department

the Shoe Department

the State Department (US Gov.)

the Stationery Department

 

DEPOSIT

a bank deposit

a security deposit

a mineral deposit

a term deposit

 

DESIGNER

a dress designer

a fashion designer

a web page designer

 

DESK

the help desk

a cash desk

a copy desk  

a hall desk

a study desk

a writing desk

an information desk

the cash desk

the foreign exchange desk

the news desk

the reception desk

the reference desk

 

DETECTOR

a lie detector

a metal detector

a mine detector

a smoke detector

 

DEVIL

a daredevil

a dust devil

a she devil

a thorn devil

 

DIAGRAM

a circuit diagram

a tree diagram

a vector diagram

a Venn diagram

a web diagram

a wiring diagram

 

DIFFICULTY

a learning difficulty

 

DIRECTOR

a film director

an art director

 

DISCRIMINATION

age discrimination (U.S.)

[age discrimination (Br.) is type 4 stress pattern.]

 

DISEASE

a blood disease

a lung disease

a skin disease

Alzheimer’s disease

bone disease

heart disease

 

DISORDER

a breathing disorder

a personality disorder

a sleep disorder

an eating disorder

an internet addiction disorder

 

DISPOSAL

bomb disposal

garbage disposal

waste disposal

 

DISPUTE

a business dispute

a commercial dispute

a labor dispute

a legal dispute

a territorial dispute

a trade dispute

 

DIVE / DIVER / DIVING

a nose-dive

a pearl diver

scuba diving

skin diving

 

DIVIDEND

a peace dividend

 

DOG

a bulldog

a guard dog

a hotdog

a lapdog

a police dog

a rescue dog

a seeing-eye dog

a sheepdog

a sniffer dog

a watchdog

an underdog

 

DONOR

a blood donor

a bone marrow donor

an egg donor

an organ donor

 

DOOR

a cargo door

a cat door

a doggy door

a fire door

a trapdoor

 

DRAIN

a brain drain

a floor drain

a roof drain

 

DRESS

a ball dress

a headdress

a nightdress

a wedding dress

an evening dress

battledress

morning dress

 

DRYER ( = DRIER)

a clothes drier

a hair dryer

 

DRINKING

binge drinking

 

DRIVE

a disc drive

a hard drive

a test drive

 

DRIVER

a bus driver

a camel driver

a device driver

a mule driver

a pile driver

a screwdriver

a slave driver

a taxi driver

a train driver

a truck driver

 

DROP

an airdrop

a dewdrop

a raindrop

a teardrop

ear drops

eye drops

 

DROPPINGS

animal droppings

bird droppings

 

DRUM

an eardrum

 

DRYER

a blow dryer

a clothes dryer

a hair dryer

a spin-dryer

a tumble dryer

 

DUTY

customs duty

excise duty

import duty

stamp duty

 

DWELLER

a cave dweller

a city dweller

a cliff dweller

a forest dweller

an island dweller

 

 

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