What is the longest word in the dictionary?

Answer 1

There are 11 longest word in the English dictionary, there are

1. 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.

2. Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies
A surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
This is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.

3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.
It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

4. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian
Pertaining to a very long word.
From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.

5. Floccinaucinihilipilification
An estimation of something as worthless.
This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinaucinihilipilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis as the longest made-up one.

6. Antidisestablishmentarianism
The belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.
Probably the most popular of the "longest words" in recent decades.

7. Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Honorableness.
The word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):
Shakespeare does not use any other words over 17 letters in length.

8. Electroencephalographically
A chemical term
The longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with ethylenediaminetetraacetate

9. Antitransubstantiationalist
One who doubts that consecrated bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Christ.

10 & 11. Disproportionableness and Incomprehensibilities
These are described by the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest words in common usage.

And just the fun for it some say SMILES is the longest word because there is a MILE between the first and last letters!

Answer 2

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 3

No no, the longest word in the dictionary is Smiles. There is a mile in between the two Ss

Answer 4

dont know, but the longest Afrikaans word is "watermelonkonfeitkompetisie" it means"watermelon jam making competition" in English - I swear its true! another Afrikaans gem is the longest town name, which is "tweebuffelsmeteenskietdoodgeskeitfontein" which means "two buffalos were shot dead with one bullet - fountain" Don't ya love South Africa :)

Answer 5

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico volcanoconiosis

plus all the words are Greek~

Answer 6

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia..which is also defined as the fear of long words..irony??


which is also why the entire word doesn't post on here ..because it's too long..lol..scroll the cursor over it

Answer 7

Supercalifraagilisticexpialidocious?

Answer 8

see T9 dictionary

Answer 9

supercalifragilisticexpialdocious

Answer 10

thats the name of some brain tumour