Brain teaser # 19

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What happens to be the longest word in the English Dictionary?
 
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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awesome raghuram!!!!

 

Originally posted by : shiv bansal

 

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

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SHIV IS RIGHT!!!

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs.[1]'" A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

Originally posted by : RaGHuRaM :-)

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RAGHUJI, YOU ROCK AGAIN MAN!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

IF YOU CLICK THE ABOVE LINK YOU COULD SEE A WORD IN ENGLISH WHICH HAS 189,819 LETTERS

IT IS A CHEMICAL: Chemical name of titin, the largest known protein

Technical; not in dictionary; disputed whether it is a word

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Well...Shiv Bansal is technically correct...

But practically Raghuram is bang on....

SMILES it is...


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