You need to break it down into sensible and readable parts
Pneumono-ultra-microscopic-silico-volcano-coniosis
The word you are referring to is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," which is a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine silicate or quartz dust. It is one of the longest words in the English language, often used as an example of a long medical term.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano is longer . it has 37 letters .as hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia had 36
Maybe 19
Probably a miner who inhaled silica dust when he was mining for minerals.
"Andy, that's a mighty bought of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis you've got there!"
No, It's a lung disease you get from breathing in microscopic Volcano dust. So it's not alive.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is not a phobia word its a lung disease but it is still the longest word in the world.
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The drugs you buy in a drugstore are harder to spell than drugstore is to spell. And... Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious and Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcano coniosis (lung disease)
PCH-miners ~xanthe
The word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis can be defined as a inflammation of the lungs due to inhaling fine silica dust. According to the Google translator, the word in Japanese is ???.
It's pronounced as- nee-yu-mo-no-ul-tra-mai-kro-sko-pik-see-lee-ko-vol-kane-o-kon-e-o-sis. Yep,I know.It's big.
According to a book called Wicked Words , this IS the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary. But the actual longest word in the world is the latin name (i think) of the element Titin , which has more than 18,000 letters in it !