whar is the longest word in the english language?

Answer 1

Nobody mentioned hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian, weighing in at 30 letters.
adj : pertaining to a very, very long word

Answer 2

pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis,

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumo­noultra­microscopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease

The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and previous editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be

flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication

at 29 letters.

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

Answer 3

I don't know if it is the longest English word, but the longest one I know is:

antidisestablishmentarianists - people who are against the belief that there shouldn't be an official church in a country.

Answer 4

Antidisestablishmentarianism- The word antidisestablishmentarianism, with 28 letters, is commonly regarded as the longest accepted word in the English language.

Answer 5

UM yeah....All medical terms can be put together to make long words. For example: Esophagogastroduodenoscopy. But I think the longest word in the dictionary is perhydrocyclopentanophenantherene but I could be wrong. ( for some reason it wont allow me to type the whole word )

Answer 6

Supercalifragilisticexpialidosious. Here's a funny pun too.

Ghandi walked without shoes, and had thick callouses on his feet, he had an abnormal diet, and fasted for quite a long time, causing him to be very thin and have bad breath. He was a :

Super Calloused Fragile Mystic Hexed with Halitosis.

Answer 7

It is the Chemical name for the "Tryptophan Synthetase". Check the url http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-imm1.htm for the word. It is indeed possible to create words as long as you like for complex compounds such as proteins, which consist of large numbers of amino acids joined together. Not possible to mention here in this forum.

Answer 8

no one is the longest because chance is there to frame new words in the course of time.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

idk. i think its supercalaiphraglisticespialadosious. or something. anyhow, i read about this little african girl who's name was like 32 letters long. ugh. that would suck. i mean how would you like to write that at the top of each paper? you would get a hand-cramp just from your name! oh, and what if your were a substitute in the room? oh gracious...