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2007-01-19 12:35:21 · 19 answers · asked by rene 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

19 answers

pneumonoultramicroscopic--
silicovolcanoconiosis (47 letters)
(this means black lung disease)

another funny word is:

hippopotomonstroses--
quippedaliophobia (36 letters)

you'de think it means fear of hippos but really it means fear of long words.... how funny is that?
~Me

2007-01-19 12:51:02 · answer #1 · answered by blackfever08 2 · 0 0

<33 just to let u know in advance, i cut tha words off coz its too long when it shows here n just changes it to (...) so ye.. but its still complete juzz cute in tha middle =D

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45 LETTERS
*pneumonoultra microscopic silicovolcanoconiosis
*pneumonoultra microscopic silicovolcanokoniosis
= longest word in tha dictionary
= it is a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust

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37 LETTERS
*hepaticocho langiocholecys tenterostomies
= a sugical creation of a conexion between tha gall bladder & a hepatic dust and between tha instestine & tha gall bladder

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34 LETTERS
*supercali fragilistic expialidocious
= a song from marry poppins

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30 LETTERS
*hippopoto monstroses quipedalian
= pertaining to a very long word

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29 LETTERS
*floccinaucinihi lipilification
= estimation of something as worthless
= 1992 guinness record as tha longest real word in tha oxford

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28 LETTERS
*antidisestablishmen tarianism
= tha belief which opposes removing tha tie between church and state
= most popular in tha longest word in recent decades

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27 LETTERS
*honorifi cabilitudinitatibus
= honourableness
= its in shakespeare's "love labor's lost" act 5, scence 1

27 LETTERS
*electroen cephalo graphically

27 LETTERS
*anititran substantia tionalist

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21 LETTERS
*disproportionableness
*incomprehensabilities
= 1992 guiness record as tha longest words in common usage

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CHEMICAL NAMES
*some are over thousand letters

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PLACE NAMES
*longest is is 80+ letters

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REALLY LONG
*smiles
*longest word because there is a "mile" between tha first & last letters =D

2007-01-19 15:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"Floccinaucinihilipilification" is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means "the act of estimating as worthless."

2007-01-27 09:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by ginabgood1 5 · 0 0

This is not a word but a town name.
Llanfairpwygwylligongeragogogo is the name of a town in Wales, England although I may have the spelling a little wrong.

2007-01-26 18:17:04 · answer #4 · answered by ethelsed 1 · 0 0

Chemical compounds can have a name that is millions of letters long, as it's name describes its basic properties. Aside from those, the 5 longest words are:

PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS - 45 letters, a lung disease
HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES - 37 letters, a surgical procedure
SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS - 34 letters, it's in the Oxford English
HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN - 30 letters, pertaining to a long word
FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION - 29 letters, used in a commercial, to deem something worthless.

2007-01-19 13:05:42 · answer #5 · answered by Olivia H 2 · 0 0

If you are talking about in the English language it is pneumonoultra miscroscopicsilico volcanoconiosis (which i memorised how to spell) It's not super califragilistic expialidocious (which i also memorised how to spell) but there is a chemical name that is over 1,000 letters. It's only 1 word but i put spaces in it so it doesn't put the ... in.

2007-01-27 09:43:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

the longest word is ... a strand of protein found in cells it has 1, 957 letters however i don't remember what it was sorry

2007-01-25 12:56:14 · answer #7 · answered by neongreensugar 3 · 0 0

What they said: supercali--well, you know the rest ;) I do know the longest word typed with the left hand is stewardesses though.

But if you want to get technical...
PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS.
47 letters versus the 34 of SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS.

Interesting stuff...check the source ;)

2007-01-19 12:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Its a town in New Zealand. number 2 is LLanfairP.G in North Wales

2007-01-26 11:38:05 · answer #9 · answered by Michael S 2 · 0 0

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary.

2007-01-19 12:53:28 · answer #10 · answered by lou53053 5 · 0 0

antidisestablishmentarianism.
The first you answer you have received is not a word at all whereas the one I have given you is.It means to be against the withdrawal of
money or support of an established church.

2007-01-26 15:06:45 · answer #11 · answered by melbournewooferblue 4 · 0 0

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