2006-11-01 09:12:41 · 9 answers · asked by sutaki 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
Some editions of the Guinness Book of Records mention praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters), used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters), attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737).
2006-11-01 09:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by hakhadbai 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The word you are speaking of is in the English language. BUT is it in the English Dictionary??? I have no idea! Just curious if it is in the Dictionary.
2006-11-01 09:40:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are several medical conditions that have many more letters than antidisestablishmentarianism. One is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' which is a lung disorder caused by chronic exposure to certain airborne mineral dusts.
2006-11-01 09:20:22 · answer #3 · answered by ponyboy 81 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's debatable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word
2006-11-01 09:14:42 · answer #4 · answered by Amy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Infinity. It's endless.
2006-11-01 10:17:11 · answer #5 · answered by pat z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (it's a lung disease)
supercalifragilisticepialidocious is also long too!
=)
2006-11-01 09:32:33 · answer #6 · answered by §èxÿtà mmý ® 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the longest word is SMILES because there is one mile between the 1st and last "S"
2006-11-01 09:20:36 · answer #7 · answered by txbigrrl25 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I always thought it is antidisestablishmentarianism.
2006-11-01 09:15:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
antidisestablishmentarianism....i don't know what it means, though...
2006-11-01 09:14:43 · answer #9 · answered by advicemom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋