can you tell me what is the longest word found in the dictionary?

Answer 1

"smiles" is the longest word because there is a mile between the first letter and the last. :)

Answer 2

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease

Answer 3

It depends on what dictionary you are looking at.

I have found "pneumonoultramicroscopic silicovolcanoconiosis" (one word, the space was included because Yahoo has a limit to the length of one word apparently) in only one dictionary...And that was from the 1930s. 45 letters long. My great grandfather actually died because of it.

"Hippopotomonstroses quippedaliophobia" (One word without the space, again, too long of a word for Yahoo) is another long one; it is the fear of long words.

"Antidisestablishmentarianism" is usually considered the longest word in the dictionary, however.

Answer 4

It might be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

Other words famous for being sesquipedalian:

* antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England")
* floccinaucinihilipilification
* honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays)

Answer 5

In Oxford English Dictionary the longest word is "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" which means "fantastic"

Answer 6

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease

Answer 7

In the Oxford dictionary it would be "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious". This doesn't take into account the millions of diseases that have extremely long names...as in
"'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'
A village in Wales has the longest name,
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch'
There is a chemical compound that has 1,913 letters in it...to long for this page.

Answer 8

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word"), places (such as 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a village in Wales

Answer 9

In the english dictionary it is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Answer 10

Parangaricutirimiquarolina

That refers to a pill that allows " El chapulin colorado" (latin tv character), to became bigger, in order to save the world from any disaster o/and attack . He is the "superman" of the comedy shows.