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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)
On Feb. 23, 1935, the New York Herald-Tribune reported on page 3:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicrographically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers' League at the opening session of the organization's 103d semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.
The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

The word appears in the 1936 Supplement to OED1, the OED2, the addendum to W2 (spelled -koniosis), W3 (spelled -coniosis), RHUD2, and Chambers.
 
gotasale said:
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary.
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSISHUMOR (50 letters; a special form of humor caused by reading this thread.) :-D
 
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSISPHOBIA
 
damn, i have to be quick to register that name :-P
 
Stinos said:
damn, i have to be quick to register that name :-P
Which one do you prefer? You have to be real quick then, it's sizzling hot! :-D
 
Does it get any typins? :D
 
WOAH! Thats a long word.
 
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