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Brr -interjection (used to express sensations of cold).
Brrr -interjection (used to express sensations of cold).
crwth -noun an ancient Celtic musical instrument with the strings stretched over a rectangular frame, played with a bow.
cwm -noun A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream.
Hmm -interjection (used typically to express thoughtful absorption, hesitation, doubt, or perplexity.) also h'm
Nth -adjective being the last in a series of infinitely decreasing or increasing values, amounts, etc.
Pfft -interjection (used to express or indicate a dying or fizzling out.)
Psst -interjection (used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
Shh -interjection (used to urge silence.) also sh
Tsk -interjection 1. (used, often in quick repetition, as an exclamation of contempt, disdain, impatience, etc.)
2. for shame!
–noun
3. an exclamation of “tsk.”
–verb (used without object)
4. to utter the exclamation “tsk.”
Also, tsktsk
Tsks -interjection (Used to express disappointment or sympathy.)
OK, I covered mine, I think... "Words without vowels."
(Definitions all drawn from standard dictionaries)
Tom
Brrr -interjection (used to express sensations of cold).
crwth -noun an ancient Celtic musical instrument with the strings stretched over a rectangular frame, played with a bow.
cwm -noun A steep bowl-shaped hollow occurring at the upper end of a mountain valley, especially one forming the head of a glacier or stream.
Hmm -interjection (used typically to express thoughtful absorption, hesitation, doubt, or perplexity.) also h'm
Nth -adjective being the last in a series of infinitely decreasing or increasing values, amounts, etc.
Pfft -interjection (used to express or indicate a dying or fizzling out.)
Psst -interjection (used to attract someone's attention in an unobtrusive manner.)
Shh -interjection (used to urge silence.) also sh
Tsk -interjection 1. (used, often in quick repetition, as an exclamation of contempt, disdain, impatience, etc.)
2. for shame!
–noun
3. an exclamation of “tsk.”
–verb (used without object)
4. to utter the exclamation “tsk.”
Also, tsktsk
Tsks -interjection (Used to express disappointment or sympathy.)
OK, I covered mine, I think... "Words without vowels."
(Definitions all drawn from standard dictionaries)
Tom
I have got to say I am impresed (BUT ONLY WITH TOM SO FAR)
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As I said earlier, oni424, "Some very cromulent words there!" :D
Let me add another that SHOULD be a word but isn't...yet:
xB -noun Small, boxy, Urban Utility Vehicle (UUV), also known as a City Car.
Let me add another that SHOULD be a word but isn't...yet:
xB -noun Small, boxy, Urban Utility Vehicle (UUV), also known as a City Car.
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles)
HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES (39 letters; surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder) is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.
PSEUDOPSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM (30 letters) is defined in the OED2 as "a familial disorder in which the skeletal and developmental abnormalities of pseudohypoparathyroidism are present without the biochemical abnormalities common to hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism" [Philip Bennett].
TRINITROPHENYLMETHYLNITRAMINE (29 letters; a type of explosive) is the longest chemical term in W3
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (28 letters) may be the best-known long word. The word means "the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state."
ok so how is that wow that was hard to do
HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES (39 letters; surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder) is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.
PSEUDOPSEUDOHYPOPARATHYROIDISM (30 letters) is defined in the OED2 as "a familial disorder in which the skeletal and developmental abnormalities of pseudohypoparathyroidism are present without the biochemical abnormalities common to hypoparathyroidism and pseudohypoparathyroidism" [Philip Bennett].
TRINITROPHENYLMETHYLNITRAMINE (29 letters; a type of explosive) is the longest chemical term in W3
ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM (28 letters) may be the best-known long word. The word means "the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state."
ok so how is that wow that was hard to do
