Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis means Its definition is an alleged lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes. It was originally coined to serve as the longest English word. However, the more general and widely used term for this condition is 'pneumoconiosis'.
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chorafilexciptphllpishimeratron- which is a type of disease
In the standard American dictionary that would be, "Antidisestablishmentarianism". In a medical dictionary it would be "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
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The longest word in the Oxford dictionary that begins with 'f' is floccipaucinihilipilification. -29 letters.
No, it is not. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is.
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pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 45 letter word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.According to the dictionary it is a lung disease causing inflammation of the lung from the inhalation of fine silica dust.
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I have heard that the word "set" has the longest entry in the Oxford Dictionary because of the many different meanings it has.
no
It is the longest word in the Oxford dictionary but there are longer words. There is a 310 letter word that means a deluded human who practices divination. Some other long words are ant idistestableshmentarianism and hippopotomontrosesquippedaliophobia.
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 !
The definition of the word transpire in the Oxford dictionary is to occur or to happen. It is a verb and the word's origin if from the Latin language from Medieval times.
Naf is not in the Oxford English dictionary.