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Compound Words Quiz #3

Can you guess these compound words based on a definition?
A compound word is formed by combining two shorter words
Examples: Houseboat, pineapple, breadstick
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Last updated: April 4, 2022
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First submittedJanuary 2, 2013
Times taken37,377
Average score65.0%
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Definition
Word
Parent's parent
Grandparent
Long intestinal parasite
Tapeworm
Seaside pedestrian path, made of wood
Boardwalk
Structure that spans a moat
Drawbridge
Insect called a locust when swarming
Grasshopper
Crime of threatening to publish damaging
information unless demands are met
Blackmail
Person who has seen a crime take place
Eyewitness
Sedimentary rock made of
calcium carbonate
Limestone
Railway or flight schedule
Timetable
Corporate recruiter or murderous
trophy collector
Headhunter
Coccyx
Tailbone
Definition
Word
Cemetery
Graveyard
Six-point score in American football
Touchdown
Medieval weapon that fired bolts
Crossbow
Military commander who rules an area
in lieu of a functioning government
Warlord
Device for opening a wine bottle
Corkscrew
Small computer image used to
preview a larger image
Thumbnail
Tube shaped animal that lives in soil,
sometimes called a nightcrawler
Earthworm
What a baby or small child sits in
at the dinner table
Highchair
Troglodyte
Caveman
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Level 44
Jan 1, 2013
Good one. More please.
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Level 35
Jan 4, 2013
12.
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Level 67
Aug 3, 2015
I think "timetable" is used much more generally than just railway or flight schedules - completely threw me off. I was thinking of manifest, itinerary, departure board, flugplan, etc.
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Level 85
Aug 3, 2015
nice quiz with a few toughies. but I got 100% with 1:16 leftover. i was also perplexed by the caveman answer until i went less complex.
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Level 43
Aug 4, 2015
24 more seconds phew
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Level 91
Aug 7, 2015
How about boneyard?
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Level 70
Jul 17, 2022
Should be accepted.
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Level 77
Sep 20, 2022
Could you please accept boneyard?
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Level 83
Nov 8, 2015
A roundworm is a common intestinal parasite that can be up to 14 inches. That seems long to me.
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Level 71
Feb 4, 2016
But not compared to a tape-worm that can be 50 feet long in humans.
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Level 73
Apr 7, 2018
roundworms don't typically reside there, ringworm can be found anywhere on the body
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Level 73
Sep 5, 2018
And as mentioned before, ringworms aren't actually worms, but a fungal skin infection.
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Level 79
Apr 4, 2022
Roundworms spend their adult life in the small intestine, so yes they do typically reside "there".
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Level 73
Jul 1, 2017
Great quiz. Would you consider duckboard as well as boardwalk?
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Level 70
Apr 9, 2018
Could you add ringworm as a possible answer for "long intestinal parasite"?
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Level 82
Aug 11, 2019
you obviously don't know what ringworm is.
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Level 75
Jul 16, 2022
What about roundworm? Don't know if it lives in the intestine though.
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Level 66
Jun 8, 2019
I think hookworm should be accepted
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Level 66
Sep 9, 2019
I won't accept any of them, yuck
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Level 58
Nov 24, 2020
Funny, earthworm took me approximately 0.0001 seconds to think of, but I don't know why I knew that.
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Level 64
Apr 4, 2022
The definition for the military commander is very poor
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Level 93
Apr 5, 2022
An online dictionary definition is a military commander who has seized control of a region in a country, which is fairly similar but I agree it is hard to guess.
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Level 93
Apr 5, 2022
for the seen a crime one my first thought was onlooker, although the actual answer is better.
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Level 79
Apr 5, 2022
I tried cavewoman and caveperson because it is, you know, 2022
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Level 77
Apr 8, 2022
What kind of crazy, bizarro world have I woken up to? Eyewitness is one word? Next thing you’ll tell me it’s actually compoundword! … … … why isn’t it compoundword?
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Level 62
Jul 19, 2022
Surely an eye witness is someone who witnesses an eye? I've never seen eyewitness as two separate words before
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Level 62
Jul 16, 2022
On the first question, why not avoid using the word that is the answer? "Nana or Papa" or "Mom's Mom, for example"
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Level 65
Jul 18, 2022
Why not, after 4+ years on here, think about acutally contributing a quiz on here yourself? Just a thought. Cheers QM, great quiz, thanks
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Level 62
Jul 19, 2022
Living in the UK, nightcrawler really threw me off the worm question, as well as the fact that I very rarely see the word earthworm rather than just "worm", so I was trying all sorts of other worms.

Yet another thing to add to the 'learned from Jetpunk' list

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Level 60
Jul 25, 2022
please accept cavedweller!
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Level 63
Jan 4, 2024
Yes, somehow I typed cavedweller and couldn't come up with caveman! Argh.
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Level 25
Jan 12, 2024
Darn. I confused boardwalk with sidewalk!