The Literal Puzzle
Solution

1. bad + comparison: dis-par-age
2. bad + saying: male-dict-ion
3. black + humor: melan-choly
4. body + eater: sarco-phagus
5. bone + break: ossi-frage => "osprey"
6. flesh + tearing: sarca-zein => "sarcasm"
7. from + hang + out + cut: ap-pend-ec(to)-tomy
8. good + doer: bene-factor
9. high + name: acro-nym
10. nose + twisting: nas(o)-turtium (I guess someone didn't like the smell!);
11. rock + oil: petr(os)-oleum
12. spiral + wing: helic(o)-opter
13. together + born: co-gnate, words that have a common origin or etymology;
14. together + strike: con-flict
15. tongue + time: glotto-chronology, the science of estimating the age and evolution of human languages;
16. water + maker: hydro-gen