2006-06-28 02:26:58 · 24 answers · asked by hbot_5719 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
that depends in what language :)
2006-06-28 02:29:06 · answer #1 · answered by mystery_girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Q. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
A. It depends . . .
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)
Or perhaps smiles is the longest word — after all, there is a mile between the first letter and the last.
2006-06-28 09:29:06 · answer #2 · answered by Salao 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do remember reading the Guiness World book of Records many years ago and memorizing the longest word ...
Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
2006-06-28 14:44:43 · answer #3 · answered by Disnilandi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the language. In German for example you can concatenate words so you will get a very long compound words. The same in sanskrit. If your ask of all languages, I don't think that is known at this time.
2006-06-28 09:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by Milu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is alleged to have 207 000 letters, but has never been printed in full.
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2006-06-28 09:39:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It means "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio by the red cave". It is a village in Anglesey, Wales, UK.
2006-06-28 09:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by Sukrit S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-28 09:33:44 · answer #7 · answered by Sonyja 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
I think it's the longest, I forget :p
It means : Fear of Long Words (I kid you not)
2006-06-28 09:32:31 · answer #8 · answered by Mysia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-
volcanoconiosis
That is a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust
Silly Yahoo keeps cutting off my word... lol
2006-06-28 09:33:49 · answer #9 · answered by Tia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SMILES: there is a mile between the two S's
2006-06-28 09:29:52 · answer #10 · answered by niwaha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this question has been asked so many times...check it out:
http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AsqatxZnAI4nm7AUqIx7Nd0nzKIX?p=longest+word&scope=&mc=&fltr=_en&tab=0&asktime=&prate=&st=1
2006-06-28 09:30:12 · answer #11 · answered by Flower 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋