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If you guys will recall back to grammar school, "doghouse" and "paperclip" are both compound words. Thus, something like "tetrameythlmonocarbide" is a compound word, compounding tetra, meythl, mono, and carbide. (which i probably spelled wrong or used the incorrect termonology for. ah well. i cant even promise that those chemicals actually sucessfully combine into a molecule.)

GTTCAG is not, nor is FBI, as they abbreviate chains of seperate words, and not a single compound word.

you could argue that you are only counting distinct words with their own meanings, but many words have entimology derived from one or multiple other root words, or different prefixes and suffixes. this is where the definition might get a bit sticky.

anyway, this thread is possibly the most ridiculous excuse for an arguement that I have ever seen. moderate me down for participating in it.