HYPHENATE

I. transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Date: circa 1889 to connect (as two words) or divide (as a word at the end of a line of print) with a hyphen, hyphenation noun II. noun Etymology: from the hyphens in the titles of such people, as producer-director Date: 1974 a person who performs more than one function (as a producer-director in filmmaking)