cabinetmaking

[kab-uh-nit-mey-king]

cab·i·net·mak·ing

[kab-uh-nit-mey-king]
noun
1.
the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
2.
the occupation or craft of a cabinetmaker.

Origin:
1805–15; cabinet + making
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Cabinetmaking has a plethora of syllables.
So is dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane. Does it mean:
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
WordNet
cabinetmaking

noun
the craft of a joiner 
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