write longest English word?

Answer 1

The answers to this question are always the same, but does anyone know the longest English sentence that can be built from a single word and still be 100% grammatical and meaningful? It's

Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

For those of you who are having trouble with this: "Attention, you buffalo who live in Buffalo, buffalo that live in Buffalo will buffalo like buffalo who live in Buffalo other buffalo that live in Buffalo"

This is the kind of humor that linguists like ;)

NOTE about antidisestablishmentarianism: Medical terms do not count, nor do chemical names. These words are simply overblown Latin compounds with no real structure based upon English morphological rules. Antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest proper English word since it is constructed of actual English pieces (prefixes, suffixes, and a proper English root). The silly medical and chemical terms are not properly constructed within English grammatical rules. You can safely ignore all the pneumo-s, etc.

Answer 2

The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease

pneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis(45 letters).

Some editions of the Guinness Book of Records mention

praetertranssubstantiationalistically(37 letters),
used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and
aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters),
attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737).

complete Oxford English Dictionary include:

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).

In his play Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio-paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonop-tekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, a word of 183 letters that describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients.

The longest word to appear in standard English dictionaries is: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). This is the name of a lung disease suffered by miners. It first appeared in Webster's New International Dictionary and then later in the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

There are quite a few other very long words of a technical or scientific nature, but these do not appear in standard dictionaries. The longest of these is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8, which has 1,913 letters.

(To see the whole words, place the cursor of the mouse on the word)

Answer 3

In his play Ecclesiazousae ("The Assemblywomen"), the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created: Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio-paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonop-tekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon, a word of 183 letters that describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients

Answer 4

Well most of guys there have given you the right one which is :
[Antidisestablishmentarianism]
I'm studying Linguistics & we are studying the structure of the words in a subject called" Morphology" and most Linguists had addmited that this is the longest English word.
Hope it helps.
Good luck

Answer 5

specific, all English words (different than for loanwords, that are incredibly words in different languages) might properly be written with in basic terms the 26 letters of our alphabet (fifty two in case you count kind the two capital and lowercase), unmodified. whether, some combos of words require punctuation in the middle, consisting of: won't be in a position to (can no longer) they are (they are) mind-blowing low-funds yet those are geared up from words produced from in basic terms the 26 easy letters.

Answer 6

p n e u m o n o u l t r a m i c r o s c o p i c s i l i c o v o l c a n o c o n i o s i s

This is about two times the size of antidisestablishmentarianism. The reason know one mentions this one is it's a medical term with an abbreviated term. It means "a disease of the lungs due to microscopic silicon dust from a volcano."

Answer 7

Antidisestablishmentarianism

he movement or ideology of advocates of opposition to disestablishment; the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment

Note: The english dictionary includes latin words which they consider "english" as well as scientific terms which may be much longer.

Answer 8

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Answer 9

establish
to set up, put in place, or institute (originally from the Latin stāre, to stand)

dis-establish
ending the established status of a body, in particular a church, given such status by law, such as the Church of England

disestablish-ment
the separation of church and state (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Britain)

anti-disestablishment
opposition to disestablishment

antidisestablishment-arian
an advocate of opposition to disestablishment

antidisestablishmentarian-ism
the movement or ideology that opposes disestablishment


Of course, the process need not stop there: prefixes like neo- and contra- can be added, or -istically can be used in place of -ism.

Answer 10

pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­-
silico­volcano­coniosis,
a 45-letter word