2006-07-03 05:10:38 · 15 answers · asked by PRASAD 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Floccinaucinihilipilification: is the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means.
At 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary,
2006-07-03 05:13:19 · answer #1 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.
The word Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is defined as "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, mostly found in volcanos".
2006-07-03 13:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Betsy B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. See the separate article for details.
The article continues.
TFTP
2006-07-03 12:15:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic - (52 letters) - attributed to Dr. Edward Strother, who devised it to describe the spa waters at Bath, England
osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary - (51 letters) - a term that describes the structure of the human body.
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism - (30 letters) - patients whom present with the somatic abnormalities of pseudohypothyroidism but lack the biochemical ones.
Ok, for some reason the whole word willnot appear for the first 2 words....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1775970
2006-07-03 12:21:18 · answer #4 · answered by Kit Kat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will take me the whole day to write the word....because the word consists of 1,909 letters. it is the term for the formula C1289H2051N3430375S8. A Tryptophan synthetase a protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids.
2006-07-03 12:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by 11.21.08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalifragilisticespialadosios
2006-07-03 12:14:29 · answer #6 · answered by swordgeo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha nice 1 tom
2006-07-03 12:14:05 · answer #7 · answered by ♣♣Brick♠♠ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antidisestablishmentarism as far as i know. it means to be fore the establishment. (it uses a double negative at the start)
2006-07-03 12:14:13 · answer #8 · answered by the man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"If"
Just this two letter word can cause one to reflect for hours or even days...
2006-07-10 11:38:23 · answer #9 · answered by Skeeter63 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
smiles there's a mile between esss
2006-07-03 12:24:25 · answer #10 · answered by mt92501 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋