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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unpronounceable

1831, from un- (1) "not" + pronounceable (adj.).

Wiktionary
unpronounceable

a. Impossible or difficult to pronounce or articulate. n. Something difficult or impossible to pronounce.

WordNet
unpronounceable
  1. adj. impossible or difficult to pronounce correctly [ant: pronounceable]

  2. very difficult to pronounce correctly; "an unpronounceable foreign word"; "unutterable consonant clusters" [syn: unutterable]

Usage examples of "unpronounceable".

Tupperware containers heaped with ravioli, baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, fried zucchini, and other things with unpronounceable names.

Her wide smile of understanding looked like a grimace to him, and the polysyllabic word that rolled out of her mouth was not only unpronounceable, it was almost incomprehensible.

This was a question on which, as may be imagined, Saxon had much to say, and the pair were soon involved in a heated discussion, in which the experiences of Roundway Down and Marston Moor were balanced against the results of a score of unpronounceable fights in the Styrian Alps and along the Danube.

Lined up beyond are a pewter cup of colored pencils and Biros, a calculator, a stapler, and a notepad printed with the unpronounceable name of some veterinary anesthetic.

Words came then, strange words, unpronounceable, unrepeatable only a second after they were spoken.

She wished she had thought to ask her mother more about the girl Ian called Emilythe Mohawk name was something multisyllabic and unpronounceable.

Too often, new writers lapse into unpronounceable collections of letters, such as Brfstklb.

He shared his kennel with a betentacled hulk from an unpronounceable planet.

But apart from Murchison, your close friends are people like the Kelgian charge nurse Naydrad, the Melfan Senior Edanelt, Prilicla, and, of course, that SNLU dietician with the unpronounceable name from Level Three Oh Two, and even Diagnostician Thornnastor.

Ryo allowed them the unusual familiarity of calling him by his personal name alone, since his full name verged on the unpronounceable for them.

Add to these, Finns, Laplanders, Esthonians, several other northern tribes with unpronounceable names, the Permiaks, the Germans, the Greeks, the Tartars, the Caucasian tribes, the Mongol, Kalmuck, Samoid, Kamtschatkan, and Aleutian hordes, and one may understand that the unity of so vast a state must be difficult to maintain, and that it could only be the work of time, aided by the wisdom of many successive rulers.

With the cooperation of an uncle on the general staff who arranged priority transport, Andrew kept the squadron supplied with the finest fare that his family estates in the highlands could provide, Scotch beef, grouse and salmon and venison in season, eggs and cheeses and jams, preserved fruits, and a rare and won erful single malt whisky with an unpronounceable name that came from the family-owned distillery.

Matern, who in his innermost soul is still arguing with the pocketknife, refuses to burden his memory with unpronounceable Gypsy names and to appraise a silver ring that has been worn thin.

Though writ small, they appeared elemental and shorn of unpronounceable terms.