What is the longest word in the dictionary?

Question

I don't know maybe you can help me find out what the longest word in the dictionary is. I am clueless. :]

Answer 1

I think it's: PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
which is a lung disease.

Answer 2

The longest word in the dictionary containing no letter more than once is "smiley." (There is a mile between the first and last letter.)

But if you just want long words, the usual response is antidisestablishmentarianism, and this can be found in most dictionaries.

The longest town in the United Kingdom is in Wales. It is:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

This name is given in full on the railway station. The local people do not bother to say the name in full. They refer to it as Lannfair PG.

However, there is a place with an even longer name in New Zealand. It is the name of a hill. Here it is:
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw en uaitnatahu.

Longest disease is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis, defined by the OED as "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word.

However, the longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8
And it is spelled:
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Answer 3

PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCA...‡ (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCA...‡ = 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.

Answer 4

The longest word in English depends upon the definition of an "English word". English allows new words to be formed by construction; long words are coined; place names may be considered words; technical terms may be arbitrarily long. Length can be in terms of orthography and number of written letters or phonology and the number of phonemes.

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 meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[1]

The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

The longest non-technical word is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741.[2][3][4] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [5], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.[6]

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

Answer 5

The longest word in the dictionary is smiles.

a mile seperates two Ss

Answer 6

"dictionary" is the longest word in "the dictionary"

Answer 7

Eternity

Answer 8

I dont know the answer to your question, but i do know the longest word you can spell without repeting any letters is UNCOPYRIGHTABLE with 15 letters.

Answer 9

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia which is the fear of long words. (in fact it is so long it doesnt show up as a word properly!! it cuts out at "dalio" add phobia to the end of that word.

Answer 10

Haventgothtefoggiest

Answer 11

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It's a lung abnormality.