The longest word?

Question

Anyone know the longest word?

Answer 1

'abbreviation' is the the longest word in the dictionary.

Answer 2

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 silica particles specifically from a volcano. It was first thought to be a hoax, but it has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.

The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

the ancient Greek comedic playwright Aristophanes created a word of 183 letters which describes a dish by stringing together its ingredients:
"Lopado­te­macho­se­lacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drimhypo­trimmato­silphio­parao­melito­katakechymeno­kichlepikossypho­phatto­peristeralektryonop­tekephallio­kigklopeleiol­agoiosiraio­baphetraganop­terygon".

James Joyce made up nine 101-letter words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is "Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk". Appearing on the first page, it allegedly represents the symbolic thunderclap associated with the fall of Adam and Eve. As it appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word.

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", the 34-letter title of a song from the movie "Mary Poppins", does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters Robert and Richard Sherman.

The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine, the shortened version of a protein also known as titin, or sometimes connectin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. Its empirical formula is C132983H211861N36149O40883S693.

The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahul (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.

The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means "Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary" and is sometimes facetiously translated as "you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle".

The 58-character name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales.

Words with certain characteristics of notable length:

1. "Strengths" is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel.
2."Euouae", a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels.
3. The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter "Aegilops", a grass genus.

"Smiles" is humorously considered to be the longest word, as there is a mile between the two "s"es. However, by this reckoning "beleaguered" would be the longest, as it contains a league, which is about three miles.

Answer 3

Floccinaucinihilipilification
This is the longest word in the Webster's dictionary. It means the act of estimating something as worthless. There are medical terms that may be longer than this, but this is the longest word in the English language and can be used.

Answer 4

yes its pueumonoultramicropicsilicovolcanoconeosis its a lung condition.It's what u get if u breathe microscopic fragments of silicon from volcanis dust
there's couple more dutch words that r long too but so far i think this is the longest english word

Answer 5

depends are you talking about english only? i will assume so and that word would be


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sadly this word has 1909 letters so it cannot be shown in whole.
its the Scientific name for Trypthophan synthetase that is a protien with 267 amino acids

Answer 6

" pneumonoultramicroscopicsillio
volcanoconiosis "

it was so long i had to split it to fit it in

its a lung disease that miners get

all the best
Ian

Answer 7

underground

Answer 8

supercalifragilisticespialedocious :]