What's the longest word in the English language?

Answer 1

"The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", a 45-letter word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silicious particles"

"The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters) [an inherited disorder that closely simulates the symptoms, but not the consequences of pseudohypoparathyroidism]."

"The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741."

"Antidisestablishmentarianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in _colloquial_ currency for being one of the longest words in the English language."

"Longest word in English" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

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

At one time antidisestablishmentarianism might have been, but that was a moment in history. It is impossible to say what the lastest longest word is because Enlglish is a synthetic language combining many roots annd stems from numerous other languages. Antidisestablishmentarianism was a British political term, dating from around the time of Disraeli having to do with parliamentary opposition to doing away with the official position of the Church of England in Great Britain. Newer, longer words are coined daily in the fields of medicine and physics from Latin and Greek roots to describe particular conditions, Paleontology comes up with a few also, since each discoverer has the right to name a new species.

Answer 4

Longest word in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a 45-letter word which refers to a lung ...
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Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaIt is supposedly the longest word in the English language. ... It does hold the record for the longest word in an English language publication in a serious ...
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Longest words in the English languageLongest words in the English language. 9=Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - "Wonderful" (34 letters); 9= Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism - "False ...
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Word Records > Longest WordsHowever, there is no easy answer that we can give when our visitors ask us for the longest word in the English language. Most very long words only occur in ...
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Longest word in the english language? antidisestablishmentarianism.World's longest word in the english language. antidisestablishmentarianism.
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Answer 5

Why keep asking this ridiculous question?: Most of what is really long is from the medical, chemical, scientific, and legal fields, or an English word with multiple prefixes and suffixes from foreign languages. Most long words are really from a foreign language, which isn't really even English.
Therefore, your question is meaningless.

It's like asking
"There are three words in the English language that ends in -gry. The first two is "angry" and "hungry", which is the third word? If you listened carefully, I have already told you the answer."

No such thing. If the first one is "angry", the second one is "hungry", and the third isn't even mentioned, then no such word in English exists.

Note: Someone's last name has many syllables, I believe 31? If you were to spell it, it'll take forever.

Answer 6

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism if you're referring to words in modern usage.
praetertranssubstantiationalis tically was used in 1963 by some guy who noone cares about.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico volcanoconiosis is the longest word in Oxford dictionaries.
aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoal uminosocupreovitriolic is probably the longest word in the entire history of the English language.
(The spaces between words are because Yahoo! places ellipses after the points I place spaces between.)

Answer 7

It is some type of disease: aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. It may look like a buch of letters but it is not, I have no idea how to pronounce that.

Answer 8

I think its some sort of illness. Not Quite Sure.

Answer 9

Smiles. There is a mile between each S.

Answer 10

no


(ask any married man)