I have it on good authority ( a menu at a restaurant in Forks WA) that "almost" is the longest word in the

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english language which has all the letters arranged in alphabetical order. Is this true? Also what is the longest word that has all the letters in reverse alphabetical order? I thought about it for about 30 seconds and came up with "some". Are there others?

Answer 1

"Almost" almost makes it...

The longest word with all letters in alphabetical order is "Aegilops" - Aegilops is a genus of plant, generally known as goat grass.

Answer 2

Here are some other interesting word facts picked this up from a right-wing political website... (don't worry, it's not political)

"Stewardesses” is the longest word typed with only the left hand and “lollipop” with your right.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. (

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you’re going to try this out for accuracy, right?)

The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Answer 3

LOL smiles is the longest word in the dictionary as there is a mile between the two s's yuck yuck yuck!

Answer 4

Bookkeeper has three sets of double letters in a row.

Answer 5

All right. Sorry, but I have to agree with JOhn M. Sadly, I could not find what the longest word in reverse alphabetical order was. However, while searching, I found some interesting facts. Here they are:

* Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel.
* Scraunched and schmaltzed are the longest monosyllabic words in current usage.
* Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any of the common vowel letters a, e, i, o, or u (although w and y function as vowels in this word).
* Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the "word" itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase "seculorum Amen" at the end of the lesser doxology. (Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant "evovae" is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.)
* The longest words with no repeated letters are dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightables. [11]
* The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus.
* The longest words typable with only the left hand (using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard) are tesseradecades, aftercataracts, and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.
* Conversely, using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, hypolimnion.
* The longest word typable using only the top row of letters is not typewriter, as is commonly believed: teetertotter is longer, though it is sometimes hyphenated and is an unknown term outside of America. It is the equivalent of what is known as a see-saw.
* The longest words typable by alternating left and right hands are antiskepticism and leucocytozoans respectively. [12]
* On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.[13] Kikuyu is in fact typed entirely with the index finger, and so naturally the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and thus no "right-handed" words.
* The longest word with the vowels in order is abstemiously. Actually, abstemiously and facetiously are the only two English words with all five vowels and the semivowel y in order.

(This was from Wikipedia. I'm sorry if you don't trust Wikipedia, but it seems fairly acurate to me.


And the next one:

# DNA stands for DeoxyriboNucleicAcid.


# Cooties are a kind of lice. Kids are right, you really don't want to catch cooties.


# Q is the only letter that does not appear in the names of any state of the Unites States.


# The side of a hammer is a cheek.


# Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is the only state capital name that shares no letters with the name of its state.


# Hoful is an unusual word meaning cautious.


# A panagram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. For example: Pack my red box with five dozen quality jugs.


# Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram, dynamo.


# The study of insects is called entomology.


# The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.


# The word "karate" means "empty hand."


# If you have had a haircut, you can be called an acersecomic.


# The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.


# "Fickleheaded" and "fiddledeedee" are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.


# The Caesar family has two months named after them. July was named for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus Caesar.


# The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.


# The world's largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74 letters.


# The average American knows about one-tenth of a million words.


# "Adcomsubordcomphibspac" is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.


# The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.


# If you look at a monkey wrench, you think it is obvious where it got its name, but you are wrong. It was named after its inventor, Charles Moncke.


# A radio announcer speaks about 180 words per minute.


# "Rhythms" is the longest English word without vowels.


# If you write a letter to the New York Times, chances are one in twenty-two that it will be published.


# The world's most widely spoken language is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese, with 500 million speakers.


# Camel's-hair brushes were named after Mr. Camel.


# "Forty" is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. "One" is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order.


# A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.


# The technical term for snapping your fingers is "fillip."


# ZIP stands for "Zoning Improvement Plan".


# No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.


# A "clue" meant a ball of thread at first.


# "Dreamt" is the only common English word ending in -MT. Others are the obscure "adreamt," "redreamt," "undreamt," or "daydreamt."


# "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.


# Of all the words in the English language, the word "set" has the most definitions.


# The word robot was invented in 1920, in an early science fiction play.


# Freelance originally meant mercenary soldier, a person who was free to use his lance for you, if you had money to pay him.


# "Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.


# A "Blue Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).


# The "O" when used as a prefix in Irish surnames means "descendant of."


# If all numbers are arranged in alphabetical order, "eight" would be the first number. "Zero" would be the last number.


# The letter B evolved from tthe Egyptian symbol for house.


# A ghost writer pens an anonymous book.


# Ballistics is the science that deals with the motion of projectiles.


# In a typical office, each worker uses 2.5 pounds of paper per day.


# "One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.


# A professional typist's fingers move 12 miles in one workday.


# The study of word origins is called etymology.


# SWIMS is the longest word with 180-degree rotational symmetry (if you were to view it upside-down it would still be the same word and perfectly readable).


# The word "hypocrite" comes from Greek, in which it means "actor".


# The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.


# Cannibalism, eating human flesh, is also called anthropophagy.


# Hydroxyzine (a prescription drug) is the longest containing "x-y-z" in exact order. Next in line line is xyzzors, a scientific name for a nematode worm in biology.


# All except 15 percent of international phone calls are conducted in English.


# The three-syllable word "hideous," with the change of a single consonant, becomes a two-syllable word with no vowel sounds in common: "hideout."


# The shortest "-ology" (study of) word is oology, the study of eggs.


# The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.


# Honorificabilitudinitatibus is the longest word consisting entirely of alternating vowels and consonants.


# A new high-tech term is "degrade gracefully" which is the opposite of a computer crash.


# "Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.


# The ridges on the sides of coins are called reeding or milling.


# The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."


# A palindrome is a sentence that if read backward says the same thing. The following may be the stupidest palindrome on earth: "Straw? No, too stupid a fad, I put soot on warts."


# The longest word in the Oxford dictionary is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis." It has 45 letters.


# This thing is not a slash: /. It is called a solidus or an obolus.


# The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself."


# In German, "eins" and "acht" are the only numbers with their letters in alphabetical order.


# A camera was originally called "camera obscura."


# The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.


# The explative, "Holy Toledo," refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural center in 1085.


# The word "paper" came from the papyrus plant from which paper was made. Papyrus used to be a common plant in Egypt, but no longer grows there.


# The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece, and Spain.


# The term "throw one's hat in the ring" comes from boxing, where throwing a hat into the ring once signified a challenge. Today it nearly always signifies political candidacy.


# The word "bible" came from the Greek word "biblion" which means book.


# "Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.


# The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.


# The word "pen" came from the Latin "penna" which means wing, or feather.


# "Asthma" and "isthmi" are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between.


# To the ancient Romans, the left side of the human body was thought of as evil and the right side was good. The Latin word for left is "sinister."

Answer 6

It's the longest word in our president's vocabulary? :))

Answer 7

wow, you must have a lot of time on your hands. thanks for the points