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In English language there are words like "the status quo", "per capita", "cul-de-sac" and so on. These words consists of two or more separate parts. I want to search for a list of such words, but I don't know what is the name of those.

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    They are sometimes called compound words or just compounds.
    – Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini
    Commented Apr 8, 2020 at 12:05

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Grammarly "compound words"
Two of the words you mention are called "open compound words" because they have spaces between their parts. There are also "closed" and "hyphenated" compounds, such as your third example.

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