pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis — which means a form of respiratory disease occuring specially in miners caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.
Damn too many words!!
"PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOS IS (also spelled PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSI S) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries".
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