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Infixing
The only thing I remember from a very good linguistics course I took as a freshman in college--I was a terrible student in that course, the instructor was fine--was infixing and Tmesis. Infix: inserting a word inside another word, like, the instructor drily intoned, "fan-fucking-tastic." Tmesis: Greek god of cutting things up...the fancy way of saying infix but words for compound words as well as single words. It's also the only word in the English language that starts 'tm' (there are technically two: the proper noun form of the god's name and the regular old noun form)
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