what is the longest english word you know. the longest?

Question

word i know is ' honorificababilitudinitatibus' means 'honour'

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon... is the longest observe in the english language. It has forty 5 letters and 18 syllables. The longest observe in the international has 182 letters and is of the latin root.

Answer 3

Instead of beating about the bush or making a miserable effort as a linguist, I would take you to the pages of Askoxford.com (Oxford Dictionaries) for an appropriate answer to your question. If you want answers to many more interesting questions like the one you have asked, just click on http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword?view=uk

What is the longest English word?

We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the 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).

Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).

In Voltaire's Candide, Pangloss is supposed to have given lectures on metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology (34 letters). In Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Headlong Hall (1816) there appear two high-flown nonce words (one-off coinages) which describe the human body by stringing together adjectives describing its various tissues. The first is based on Greek words, and the second on the Latin equivalents; they are osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous (44 letters) and osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 letters), which translate roughly as 'of bone, flesh, blood, organs, gristle, nerve, and marrow'.

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).

This kind of verbal game originates, so far as records attest, with the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, inventor of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land (Nephelokokkygia).

The formal names of chemical compounds are almost unlimited in length (for example, aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile, 40 letters), but longer ones tend to be sprinkled with numerals, Roman and Greek letters, and other arcane symbols. Dictionary writers tend to regard such names as 'verbal formulae', rather than as English words.

Answer 4

The longest off of the top of my head is tetrafluoroethane...

Longest non-technical word: Floccinaucinihilipilification

Longest word in Oxford dictionary: pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

Answer 5

Kissing, is the longest word & work in english or any other langauge of the world as far as i know.

Answer 6

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Answer 7

Antidisestablishmentarianism..(der is a meaning but I 4got u can look it up in the dictionary if u wan 2)

Answer 8

'floccinaucinihilipilification' at 29 characters, meaning 'the act of estimating as worthless'.
your word doesn't come up in any search engine.. from where did you acquire it?

Answer 9

the first person did what i was gonna write but he didnt complete it so...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidoteches
bit of a hard word to spell a bit haha.

Answer 10

I m also agree with the first ans ..the one I know is :
Supercalifragilisticexpialidot...