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2006-11-20 03:56:45 · 17 answers · asked by chendil 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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pneumono­ultra­micro­sco-
pic­silico­volcano­coniosis (45 letters)

[Meaning "a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica (sandlike) dust, mostly found in volcanoes," it is the longest word in any major English dictionary, first appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1936; it was discovered in the 1980s that the word was made up in 1935 as a hoax just so that it could be the longest word, but since it has actually been used in legitimate sources in a way that closely approximates its supposed meaning, it stays in.]
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Krungthepmahanakorn-
amornratanakosinmahi-
ntarayutthayamahadilok-
phopnopparatrajathanib-
uriromudomrajaniwesm- (164 letters)
ahasatharnamornphima-
rnavatarnsathitsakkatti-
yavisanukamprasit-

[The longest place name in the English language. It is the full ceremonial name of the capital of Thailand, meaning "The City of Angels, The Great City, The Eternal Jewel City, The Impregnable City of God Indra, The Grand Capital of the World Endowed with Nine Precious Gems, The Happy City, Abounding in an Enormous Royal Palace that Resembles the Heavenly Abode Where Reigns the Reincarnated God, A City Given by Indra and Built by Vishnukam," or, Bangkok.]

2006-11-20 04:04:33 · answer #1 · answered by foxwallow 3 · 0 0

This 1185-letter "word" is the chemical call for "Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense stress". it extremely is supposedly the longest word interior the English language. The term substitute into revealed interior the yank Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts in 1972, and is seen by utilising some to be the longest real word. It does carry the checklist for the longest word revealed in an English language e-e book in a extreme context - it extremely is, for some reason different than to submit an exceedingly long word. In its finished type, the 1185-letter word is: acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreon...

2016-11-25 21:16:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

the longest word in the english language is antidisestablishmentarianism leaving out all the scince words cause you can just keep adding word onto words in science

2006-11-20 05:12:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I thought it was the supercalofragolisticexpialadocous from the movie "The Sound of Music" but I don't know how to spell it obviously LOL

2006-11-20 04:04:30 · answer #4 · answered by :-) literary cappy 4 · 0 0

Smiles --- there is a mile between the first letter and the last

2006-11-20 04:03:06 · answer #5 · answered by UK Fan 3 · 0 0

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
30 letters .

2006-11-20 04:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by goughy40 1 · 0 0

LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHCHWDROBYLLGOGOOGOCH is actually Welsh but as Wales is part of the British Isles it might count.

Its the name of a railway station?village.

2006-11-20 04:23:15 · answer #7 · answered by NICHOLAS C 2 · 0 0

pnemonoultramicroscopicsilico volcanoconiosis
it is a name of a lung disease
very minute

2006-11-21 00:40:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis
45 letter word referring to lung disease.

2006-11-20 05:19:05 · answer #9 · answered by y 2 · 0 0

Its something like:
Flaccinauccinihilipilification

2006-11-21 01:22:01 · answer #10 · answered by sujatha_sudhakaran 2 · 0 0

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