what is the longest word in the English language?

Question

i want to know what is the longest word in the English language

Answer 1

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

Answer 2

This 1185-letter "word" is the chemical name for "Coat Protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain". It is supposedly the longest word in the English language. The term was published in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts in 1972, and is considered by some to be the longest real word. It does hold the record for the longest word published in an English language publication in a serious context - that is, for some reason other than to publish a very long word. In its complete form, the 1185-letter word is: acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreon...

Answer 3

The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash, 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.

You could get more information from the link below...

Answer 4

(45) PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = 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.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious comes in a close second, lol

Answer 5

One of the following I suspect:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (fom Mary Poppins)

Pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis (a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of volcanic ash)

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic.

Flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication (consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless)

The longest technically legal Scrabble word in North American play is ethyl­enediamine­tetra­acetates (28 letters).

Finally, as a fan of irish writers I can tell you that, James Joyce made up nine 100 and one 101-letter words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk. It allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve.

Answer 6

Antidisestablishmentatarianism used to be the longest word in the English language but we have lots of new words for diseases and such so it may not be now.
( tried a spell check on this word but it could not be found)

Answer 7

I have read that the longest word in the English language is 1,909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.

Answer 8

"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico-volcanoconiosis" is the longest word in non-technical English dictionaries, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is a fictitious word created just to claim the title of longest.

Answer 9

Antidisatablishmentarianism

Answer 10

Smiles has got a mile between the first and last letter.

Answer 11

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
http://www.sfu.ca/person/dearmond/220/220.longest.word.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

otorhinolaryngological (22 letters),
immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters),
psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters),
thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters),
pneumoencephalographically (26 letters),
radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters),
psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters)
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters),
spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters),
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword?view=uk

Floccinaucinihilipilification
With 29 letters, it is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floccinaucinihilipilification