What is the LONGEST word in English?

Question

Firstly, "Floccinaucinihilipilification" was said to be the longest word in english but thats not...
The right answer is in details shortly after...

here is the word:
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
thanks to all....

pneumonoultramicrosco-
-picsilicovolcanoconiosis

Answer 1

Interesting Facts:
1. The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends
in the letters "mt".

3. No word in English language rhymes with
"month," "silver," "purple," or "orange."

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called
an octothorpe.

5. The symbol used in many URLs (Web addresses)
is called a tilde. (~)

6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any
other word in English.

8. "Underground" is the only word in English that
begins and ends with the letters "und."

9. There are only four words in the English language
which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.

10. The longest word in the English language,
according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of
letters is its plural:
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses.

12. The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu,
the Maori name of a hill in New Zealand.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra
Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and
can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, L.A.

14. The verb "cleave" has definitions which are
antonyms of each other: to adhere and to separate.

15. The verb "sanction" also has definitions which
are antonyms: to sponsor and to ban.

16. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

17. There is a seven-letter word in English that
contains eleven words without rearranging any of its
letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her,
here, ere, I, therein, herein.

18. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that
is typed with only the left hand.

19. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine
different ways; the following sentence contains them
all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman
strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling
into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

20. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."

21. "Facetious" and "abstemious" contain all the vowels in
the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing
arsenic."

22. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian
phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

23. Only three words have entered English from Czech:
polka, pilsner, and robot.

Answer 2

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is 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 Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [1], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Antidisestablishmentarianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is one of the longest words in the English language.

The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorificabilitudinitatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), but only because he used it.

The humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish [1]. At 21 letters (22 counting the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is often asserted that the name is longer than the fish.

Although only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It is derived from a nonce word used by the Roman author Horace, in his work Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry). The quote is as follows: "Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba," which means, "He throws aside his paint pots and his words that are a foot and a half long". The Oxford English dictionary[2] lists sesquipedalianism ("the practice of using words one and a half feet long"), and further derivations can be created as described in the Constructions section below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

Answer 3

The longest word in the English language has to be " I ". If you have ever gone on a real boring date and could not get a word in, I know that you would agree with me!

Answer 4

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis....it has 45 characters.
Definition: 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust'

Answer 5

the word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease, and thats all i know.

Answer 6

smiles cos there is a mile between s's

Answer 7

SMILES there is a mile between s's

Answer 8

now tell me what both those words mean

Answer 9

http://cn.bing.com/images/search?q=chemical+name+for+titin&view=detailv2&&id=C8FDB6B662237F4F1F43E3767A90D394AF6F29D0&selectedIndex=0&ccid=B1lltU1N&simid=607993784408018577&thid=OIP.M075965b54d4d2d81f181fa7f858029f8o0&ajaxhist=0

Too long to post... it makes my yahoo crash.. it's a chemical name for titin.

Answer 10

antidisestablishmentarianism