2006-07-11 10:51:39 · 16 answers · asked by A 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/l/longestword.html
one of these two.... can you pronouce any of them? I can't ;-(
2006-07-11 10:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
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)
2006-07-11 17:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by erin7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SMILES is the longest word — there is a mile between the first letter and the last
2006-07-11 17:56:29 · answer #3 · answered by doctor_bee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supercalafragalisticexpealadocious!
Is that in the dictionary???? It's the first thing that came to mind.
2006-07-11 17:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by Mom of One in Wisconsin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
antidisestablishmentarianism
i hope i spelled that right! that's the longest in the english language
what about out of every languages? well in certain ones (like icelandic) when you want to describe a noun, the adjectives just become the word, so seeing as you could have infinity adjectives, there is no limit.
2006-07-11 17:57:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on which dictionary you are using to find your sesquipedalian's if could be, if your looking in Oxfords English Dictionary, it is: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
If your talking medical as well (which isn't in a normal english dictionary), then it is: 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis'
2006-07-11 17:55:42 · answer #6 · answered by ReggieWjr1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Congratulations
2006-07-11 17:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by zaaterah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God! search in the dictionary...why do you think you have a dictionary for? (without comments)
2006-07-11 17:59:47 · answer #8 · answered by scotty dont 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could be
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Stupid Yahoo answers keeps cutting of fthe last four letters of the word "ious'
2006-07-11 17:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by spokes2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dictionaries
2006-07-11 17:55:16 · answer #10 · answered by sk8terboyz21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Smiles. Because there is a mile in between it.
2006-07-11 17:55:03 · answer #11 · answered by mom_of_4 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋