23 June 2010

vocabulary is cool: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis


pneu⋅mo⋅no⋅ul⋅tra⋅mi⋅cro⋅scop⋅ic⋅sil⋅i⋅co⋅ vol⋅ca⋅no⋅co⋅ni⋅o⋅sis

[noo-muh-noh-uhl-truh-mahy-kruh-skop-ik-sil-i-koh-vol-key-noh-koh-nee-oh-sis, nyoo-]


–noun
an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cites as one of the longest words in the English language. 
Origin: 
NL; an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cites as one of the longest words in the English language. see pneumono-ultramicroscopic silicavolcano,(pneumono)coniosis 

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