The longest word is TWYNDYLLYNGS
Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English without a vowel. It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Apparently "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."
2006-10-27 07:45:47
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answered by SUS 2
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Hi David, the longest word in the English current dictionary other than Rhythm is ....SYZYGY it has two meanings.... the first, An alignment of three celestial bodies e.g. The Sun the Moon and the Earth. Also .... Two objects similar or opposite that are related to one another.
Hope this helps :-)
2006-10-27 17:43:43
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answered by literary_angel 3
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The longest word i can think of without any vowels is: RHYTHMS
2006-10-28 09:43:55
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answered by Anonymous
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glycyls
rhythms
tsktsks
syzygys
These are the only ones in the dictionary.
2006-10-27 14:21:32
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answered by Anonymous
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It's amazing the things you can find on the web if you use a search engine...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_the_English_language
2006-10-27 14:22:24
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answered by Anonymous
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Shopgirl - WAKE UP!!! All your suggestions have VOWELS in them!!! READ THE QUESTION AGAIN!!!
2006-10-27 14:21:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Who Cares?
2006-10-27 16:55:33
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Longest Words
(45) PNEUMONOÂULTRAÂMICROÂSCOPICÂSILICOÂVOLCANOÂCONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONOÂULTRAÂMICROÂSCOPICÂSILICOÂVOLCANOÂKONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.
(37) HEPATICOÂCHOLANGIOÂCHOLECYSTÂENTEROÂSTOMIES = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
This is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.
(34) SUPERÂCALIÂFRAGIÂLISTICÂEXPIÂALIÂDOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.
It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
"But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin' nose,
The biggest word you ever 'eard,
And this is 'ow it goes:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"
(30) HIPPOPOTOÂMONSTROÂSESQUIPEDÂALÂIAN = pertaining to a very long word.
From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.
(29) FLOCCIÂNAUCINIÂHILIPILÂIFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.
This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls flocciÂnauciÂnihiliÂpilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂkoniosis as the longest made-up one.
(28) ANTIÂDISÂESTABLISHÂMENTÂARIANÂISM = the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.
Probably the most popular of the "longest words" in recent decades.
(27) HONORIÂFICABILIÂTUDINIÂTATIBUS = honorableness.
The word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):
"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
for thou art not so long by the head as
honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
swallowed than a flap-dragon."
Shakespeare does not use any other words over 17 letters in length.
(27) ELECTROÂENCEPHALOÂGRAPHICALLY
The longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with ethyleneÂdiamineÂtetraacetate (see below).
(27) ANTIÂTRANSUBÂSTANÂTIAÂTIONÂALIST = one who doubts that consecrated bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Christ.
(21) DISÂPROÂPORTIONÂABLEÂNESS and (21) INÂCOMÂPREHENÂSIBÂILITIES
These are described by the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest words in common usage.
Some say SMILES is the longest word because there is a MILE between the first and last letters!
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Chemical Terms
Two chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms. A DNA molecule could have a name of over 1,000,000,000 letters if it was written out in full.
(1,185) ACETYLÂSERYLÂTYROSYLÂSERYLÂISOÂLEUCYLÂTHREONYLÂSERYLÂPROLYLÂSERYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂVALYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂLEUCYLÂSERYLÂSERYLÂVALYLÂTRYPTOPHYLÂALANYLÂASPARTYLÂPROLYLÂISOLEUCYLÂGLUTAMYLÂLEUCYLÂLEUCYLÂASPARAGINYLÂVALYLÂCYSTEINYLÂTHREONYLÂSERYLÂSERYLÂLEUCYLÂGLYCYLÂASPARAGINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂTHREONYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂALANYLÂARGINYLÂTHREONYLÂTHREONYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂVALYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂSERYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂVALYLÂTRYPTOPHYLÂLYSYLÂPROLYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂPROLYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂSERYLÂTHREONYLÂVALYLÂARGINYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂPROLYLÂGLYCYLÂASPARTYLÂVALYLÂTYROSYLÂLYSYLÂVALYLÂTYROSYLÂARGINYLÂTYROSYLÂASPARAGINYLÂALANYLÂVALYLÂLEUCYLÂASPARTYLÂPROLYLÂLEUCYLÂISOLEUCYLÂTHREONYLÂALANYLÂLEUCYLÂLEUCYLÂGLYCYLÂTHREONYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂASPARTYLÂTHREONYLÂARGINYLÂASPARAGINYLÂARGINYLÂISOLEUCYLÂISOLEUCYLÂGLUTAMYLÂVALYLÂGLUTAMYLÂASPARAGINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂSERYLÂPROLYLÂTHREONYLÂTHREONYLÂALANYLÂGLUTAMYLÂTHREONYLÂLEUCYLÂASPARTYLÂALANYLÂTHREONYLÂARGINYLÂARGINYLÂVALYLÂASPARTYLÂASPARTYLÂALANYLÂTHREONYLÂVALYLÂALANYLÂISOLEUCYLÂARGINYLÂSERYLÂALANYLÂASPARAGINYLÂISOLEUCYLÂASPARAGINYLÂLEUCYLÂVALYLÂASPARAGINYLÂGLUTAMYLÂLEUCYLÂVALYLÂARGINYLÂGLYCYLÂTHREONYLÂGLYCYLÂLEUCYLÂTYROSYLÂASPARAGINYLÂGLUTAMINYLÂASPARAGINYLÂTHREONYLÂPHENYLÂALANYLÂGLUTAMYLÂSERYLÂMETHIONYLÂSERYLÂGLYCYLÂLEUCYLÂVALYLÂTRYPTOPHYLÂTHREONYLÂSERYLÂALANYLÂPROLYLÂALANYLÂSERINE = Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.
(39) TETRAÂMETHYLÂDIAMINOÂBENZHYDRYLÂPHOSPHINOUS = a type of acid.
This is the longest chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.). It does not have its own entry but appears under a citation for another word.
(37) FORMALDEHYDEÂTETRAÂMETHYLÂAMIDOÂFLUORIMUM
Chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
(37) DIMETHYLÂAMIDOÂPHENYLÂDIMETHYLÂPYRAZOLONE
Chemical term in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
(31) DICHLOROÂDIPHENYLÂTRICHLOROÂETHANE = a pesticide used to kill lice; abbrv. DDT.
It is the longest word in the Macquarie Dictionary and is also in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd Ed.).
(29) TRINITROÂPHENYLÂMETHYLÂNITRAMINE = a type of explosive.
This is the longest chemical term in Webster's Dictionary (3rd Ed.).
(27) ETHYLENEÂDIAMINEÂTETRAÂACETATE
The longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with electroencephalographically (see above).
(26) ETHYLENEÂDIAMINEÂTETRAÂACETIC = a type of acid; abbrv. EDTA.
This word appears in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.).
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Place Names
There are many long place names around the world. Here are a few of the largest.
(85) TAUMATAÂWHAKAÂTANGIÂHANGAÂKOAUAUÂOÂTAMATEAÂTURIPUKAKAÂPIKIÂMAUNGAÂHOROÂNUKUÂPOKAIÂWHENUAÂKITANAÂTAHU
A hill in New Zealand. This Maori name was in general use, but is now generally abbreviated to Taumata. The name means: the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one.
(66) GORSAÂFAWDDACHÂAIDRAIGODANÂHEDDOÂGLEDDOLONÂPENRHYNÂAREURÂDRAETHÂCEREDIGION
A town in Wales. The name means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.
(58) LLANÂFAIRÂPWLLÂGWYNÂGYLLÂGOGERYÂCHWYRNÂDROBWLLÂLLANTYÂSILIOÂGOGOÂGOCH
A town in North Wales. The name roughly translates as: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
(41) CHARÂGOGAGOGÂMANÂCHARÂGOGAGOGÂCHARÂBUNAÂGUNGAMOG
Another name for Lake Webster in Massachusetts. Probably the longest name in the United States. Alternative spellings are:
(44) CHARÂGOGGAGOGGÂMANÂCHAUGÂGAGOGGÂCHAUÂBUNAÂGUNGAMOGG,
(45) CHARÂGOGGAGOGGÂMANÂCHAUGÂGAGOGGÂCHAUÂBUNAÂGUNGAMAUGG,
(44) CHARÂGOGGAGOGGÂMANÂCHAUGÂGAGOGGÂCHAÂBUNAÂGUNGAMAUGG.
(23) NUNATHÂLOOGAGAÂMIUTÂBINGOI
The Eskimo name for some dunes in Alaska, according to The Book of Names by J. N. Hook.
2006-10-27 14:19:17
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answer #8
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answered by shopgirl 2
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rhythms is the one i know abt
2006-10-27 14:32:29
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answered by rameezaali 2
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rhythms
2006-10-27 14:18:48
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answered by Anonymous
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