RE: What do you call a two-word string?

["Swallow, William" <WSwallow -at- courion -dot- com>]

The examples you cite are technically all proper nouns, but I think the term
you're looking for is 'compound noun'.

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-----Original Message-----
My company does conceptual searching using three word phrases.  One issue we
have is when an entity is always refered to by two or more words.  For
example:  United States, Boy Scouts, White House, etc.

My problem:  What to call these things?  Is there an actual term for this
kind of "word" or word string?

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