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Subsequently, the word was used in Frank Scully's puzzle book Bedside Manna, after which time, members of the N.P.L. campaigned to include the word in major dictionaries. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] This 45-letter word, referred to as "p45", [ 11 ] first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition .
Nuclear bomb designed to fit inside a suitcase. 1950s Thermometric bomb: Also called a vacuum bomb, or aerosol bomb, this explosive disperses a cloud of gas or liquid. Time bomb: A bomb that is triggered by the timer. Trinitrotoluene: Commonly known as TNT. 1863 Julius Wilbrand: Germany: Unguided bomb: An air-craft dropped bomb that lacks a ...
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From technical to whimsical, prepare for your vocabulary to be stretched with 20 of the longest words in English. Plus, find out what they mean. Related: 55 Examples of Onomatopoeia
A corroded bomb believed to be over half a century old washed up on a California beach during a storm and was found on New Year's Eve, Santa Cruz authorities said.
Each machine was about 7 feet (2.1 m) wide, 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall, 2 feet (0.61 m) deep and weighed about a ton. [32] On the front of each bombe were 108 places where drums could be mounted. The drums were in three groups of 12 triplets. Each triplet, arranged vertically, corresponded to the three rotors of an Enigma scrambler.
I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. It's antidisestablishmentarianism. Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed.
The first Blue Danube was delivered to stockpile at RAF Wittering in November 1953 although there were no aircraft equipped to carry it until the following year. No. 1321 Flight RAF was established at RAF Wittering in April 1954 as a Vickers Valiant unit to integrate the Blue Danube nuclear weapon into RAF service.