jawbreaker
noun
a word that is hard to pronounce.
jawbreaking
-
a word derived from
jawbreaker.
Example Sentences
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Medical science has a jawbreaking name but no treatment and no sign of a cure for a mysterious wasting of the muscles.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the most important guideposts of the U.S. economy goes by the jawbreaking name of Diffusion Indexes of Business Indicators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Watching a curving, perforated object take form on the screen, the mathematicians gradually become convinced that they have produced a new shape with a jawbreaking name: a complete embedded minimal surface with finite topology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The process can produce a highly toxic substance with the jawbreaking name of tetrachlorodibenzodioxine, or, as it is more commonly called, TCDD.
From Time Magazine Archive
He heard it as a child in Australia and he thinks "the fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jawbreaking sentences."
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger
