2006-10-17 14:54:21 · 18 answers · asked by sugarpacketchad 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS
believe it... it's a lung disease
2006-10-17 14:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
On Feb. 23, 1935, the New York Herald-Tribune reported on page 3:
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103d semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.
The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust...
2006-10-17 22:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis/Pneumonoultramicrosxcopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanoes". It was originally coined simply to serve as the longest English word, but has been used in several sources as an approximation of its originally intended definition. The name generally used to describe this condition is pneumoconiosis, which is much shorter.
2006-10-17 22:03:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Extention
2006-10-21 17:42:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dictionary
2006-10-17 21:58:02 · answer #5 · answered by bigj587 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
somone has told me that this is a word
pneumonoultramicroscopicslicovolcanoconiosis
I think thats spelled right.
Another word is antidisestablishmentarianism
2006-10-17 21:59:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
smiles- a mile between each S
2006-10-17 21:57:06 · answer #7 · answered by crkempton 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antidisestablishmentarianism. It has something to do with church. I've heard it a lot of times.
2006-10-17 21:55:37 · answer #8 · answered by bebeeangeldust 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smiley - it has a mile between the s and the y!!
2006-10-17 21:57:28 · answer #9 · answered by roxy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETER ....ultraviolet infrared or DNA anaylsi machine.
Thats all I kno
I am a CRJ major
2006-10-17 23:00:50 · answer #10 · answered by 20*~♥~ NuBianQu33n~♥~*08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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It is a real word. It is my clubs modo.
2006-10-17 21:57:37 · answer #11 · answered by DUH! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋