whats the longest word in the English language?

Answer 1

I have broken it up with spaces so that yahoo will show all of it.


Pneumonoult ramicroscopicsili covolcanoconiosis


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Answer 2

Officially the longest word is 'floccinaucinihilipilification' at 29 characters, meaning 'the act of estimating as worthless'.

Then there's 'antidisestablishmentarianism' at 28 letters, meaning 'opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England'. It is often considered the longest word as it has an actual meaning instead of being created just to be long.

Unofficially the longest word is 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' at 45 characters, meaning 'a lung disease'. It was created solely for the purpose of being the longest word, however, it does appear in a few dictionaries.

The longest place name is that of a hill in New Zealand at 85 characters.

The word with the most letters is a name of protein, as a name, it technically does not qualify as a word, but at 1913 characters, we just had to include it. Theoretically these names can contain an infinite amount of characters, but this one qualifies as it has actually been used in a medical journal.

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 fine silica dust

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pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis

Answer 4

Gee - yahoo won;t print a 45 letter word, so I've broken it up. We'll see how this works!

Well, folks are always making combining forms of scientific terms to update this topic, but the one we always used was pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcaniconiosis. Like black lung, that miners get.

"new-mono-ultra-microscopic-sill - ih-ko-volcanic-oh-nee-osis" is the pronuciation in plainspeak.

Answer 5

Smiles There's a mile between the S's

Answer 6

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis volcanokoniosis

= the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

Answer 7

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico

Answer 8

antidisestablishmenterianism is the longest word if you don't count diseases.

Answer 9

antidisestablishmentarianism

"antidisestablishmentarians" were opposed to proposals to remove the Church's status as the state church of England.

Answer 10

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis = the disease of silca dust entering the lungs.