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is it a scientific word................................

2006-08-05 22:35:00 · 14 answers · asked by lucky 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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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 (More recent editions of the book have since aknowledged pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis). 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 , 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.At 22 letters (including the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped 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 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.

2006-08-05 22:41:30 · answer #1 · answered by rydhel1016 3 · 1 1

You have two options : 1) Break up. 2) Take steps to be together on a more permanent basis. $30,000 a year is awesome for someone your age you should be very proud. I don't know what it is that you do and being able to work in Switzerland wouldn't be easy you would need to get married and aquire work authorization. However she can't easily go to school in the US without spending A LOT more than $30,000 a year on tuition as a foreign national. On the plus side a broken heart hurts like you would not believe and you'll go back and for trying to rationalize how a little thing little like distance can keep you apart, in the end it doesn't make sense. I say this from experience. If you really love her, I mean REALLY love her than it doesn't really matter, the choice is already made. So you live like paupers for a few years while you find a good job, this is your one spin, the only spin you get, don't throw it away. EDIT : After reading some of your other questions I'm not so sure that this is all your cracking it up to be this evening. May be better to count your losses. Maybe she is not as inclined to give any on he end is because she doesn't trust you and to be honest do you really blame her?

2016-03-27 00:53:29 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I don't know the longest word in the world but the longest word in my native language which is Bulgarian is 'непротивоконституционствува телствувайте' - 39 letters and almost every Bulgarian knows it. The word means 'don't act against the constitution'. It would be pronounced as [ne pro ti vo kon sti tu tzi on stvu va tel stvu vaj te]

:)

2006-08-06 02:19:12 · answer #3 · answered by nelabis 6 · 0 0

Actually it is a medical term that takes up more than half a page of a very large medical dictionary. I know because it was in the book of world records and my dad is a doctor. I'm sorry that I am not going to include the word but it would be an essay in itself...

2006-08-05 22:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by Kitkat Bar 4 · 0 0

It is indeed a scientific word.

An answer above shows a compound with 1055 characters. I have however seen one in the newspaper report about a year ago with 1210 characters.

I'd like to reproduce it here but, unhappily, I don't have the reference any more.

2006-08-06 00:43:26 · answer #5 · answered by tlc 3 · 0 0

these are the longest english words...

otorhinolaryngological (22 letters),
immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters),
psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters),
thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters),
pneumoencephalographically (26 letters),
radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters),
psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters)
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters),
spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters),
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

2006-08-05 22:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary

(51 letters)!

2006-08-05 22:39:01 · answer #7 · answered by loudy_foudy 4 · 0 0

Edna Bambrick?

2006-08-05 22:37:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

flocci­nauci­nihili­pilification-"the act of estimating (something) as worthless", -----||||
ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM-has possibly never really been used to mean "the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state." -- ||||same way --> SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS ------- and medically >> pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis --- Ofcourse in organic chemical names are huge and not to name Finish or Sanskrit(India) words which may be just addendum of may words.

2006-08-05 23:00:21 · answer #9 · answered by kalyan_panda 2 · 0 0

"preuncoroultramicroscopic silicovolcanoco niosis"
this word is the largest in the oxford dictionary which describes a disease of the lungs

2006-08-05 22:39:28 · answer #10 · answered by ♀guardian of angels♀ 3 · 0 0

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