starts with mono- hint hint hint........;)
2006-12-04 04:47:22 · 4 answers · asked by teddy89 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It might be
"supercalifragilistic expialidocious"
(which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (like
"pneumonoultramicro scopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,"
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'), places (such as
"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogery chwyrndrobwllllanty siliogogogoch,"
a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
*ingore the spaces within quotations
2006-12-04 08:49:25 · answer #1 · answered by amber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The longest word in the English language has 1,909 letters in it and refers to DNA. Obviously I can't type it out here!
2006-12-04 12:57:23 · answer #2 · answered by zigazagie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
2006-12-04 12:54:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pneumonoÂultraÂmicroÂscopicÂsilicoÂvolcanoÂconiosis
2006-12-04 12:54:47 · answer #4 · answered by adrienna1026 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋