What is the longest word in the english langauge?
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be flocci­nauci­nihili­pilificati... at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form flocci­nauci­nihili­pilificast... is subject to controversy. The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico... an invented word supposed to refer to a lung disease. [1]\n\nMy favorite though is:\n\nmethionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalan ylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylpheny lalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylproly lglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylt hreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucyl glutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylle ucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginyl alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalyl threonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionyl leucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreon ylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylas paraginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspar tylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysyl valylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprol ylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutami nylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisol eucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylasparty laspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylserylty rosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylargin ylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylala nylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysyl leucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylg lutaminylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylg lutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylal anylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylis oleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutam ylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphen ylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylargin ylserine\n- 1,913 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)
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The Guiness Book Of World Record officially recognizes aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic, which contains 52 letters, as the longest word. It is attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737).\n\nHowever, the longest word currently in the Oxford dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long. It stands for a lung disease.\n\nFor more long words, please refer to the source.\n\nFrom a comic angle, the other answrer has already given an answer
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A small city in Thailand has the official longest name . Its 163 letters long!!!\n\nKrungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudomrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit.
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SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS (34)\n\nPNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (45)(Lungs disease)\n\nfloccinaucinihilipilification (29) (official english long word)\n\nA popular joke answer to the "longest word" question is the word smiles, credited as the longest word because there is a mile between each s.\nssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssmilessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.\n\nhave fun\nemarketingclass@gmail.com
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The CORRECT spelling for the longest word currently in the English language is:\n\nPneumonoultramiscroscopic\nsilicovolcanoconiosis\n\n46 letters long.  It is an inflammatory lung disease caused by the inhalation of fine silica dust.
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No, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is NOT the longest english word. Neither is antidisestablishmentarianism (although it's one of the most well known really long words). There's floccinaucinihilipilification (one letter longer than antidis...) and pneumonoultramicroscopic- silicovolcanoconiosis, at 45 letters, althought there's some dispute about that one, since it may have been made up for no other reason than to be a really long word.\n\nAnyway, back to supercalifragilisticexpialidocious... it doesn't mean anything. It's just a made up word that sounds really impressive. It's purpose (in the song) is to make the speaker sound intelligent ("...if you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious"). \n\n"Of course, you could always say it backward, which would be docious-expi-ali- istic-cali-fragil-rupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?"\n\nI listened to this song way too often in my childhood.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters is the longest word in Englsih.
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....according to this.....the official longest word is under the chemical section containg 3,641 and 1,914(not listed); and listed with 1,185 letters........\n\nLongest Words\n(45) PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.\nThis is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.\n(37) HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.\nThis is the longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary.\n\n(34) SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.\nIt is in the Oxford English Dictionary.\n\n\n"But then one day I learned a word\nThat saved me achin' nose,\nThe biggest word you ever 'eard,\nAnd this is 'ow it goes:\nSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious!"\n(30) HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN = pertaining to a very long word.\nFrom Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.\n\n(29) FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.\nThis is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls flocci­nauci­nihili­pilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­koniosis as the longest made-up one.\n\n(28) ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM = the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.\nProbably the most popular of the "longest words" in recent decades.\n\n(27) HONORI­FICABILI­TUDINI­TATIBUS = honorableness.\nThe word first appeared in English in 1599, and in 1721 was listed by Bailey's Dictionary as the longest word in English. It was used by Shakespeare in Love's Labor's Lost (Costard; Act V, Scene I):\n\n\n"O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.\nI marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;\nfor thou art not so long by the head as\nhonorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier\nswallowed than a flap-dragon."\nShakespeare does not use any other words over 17 letters in length.\n\n(27) ELECTRO­ENCEPHALO­GRAPHICALLY\nThe longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with ethylene­diamine­tetraacetate (see below).\n\n(27) ANTI­TRANSUB­STAN­TIA­TION­ALIST = one who doubts that consecrated bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Christ.\n\n(21) DIS­PRO­PORTION­ABLE­NESS and (21) IN­COM­PREHEN­SIB­ILITIES\nThese are described by the 1992 Guinness Book of World Records as the longest words in common usage.\n\nSome say SMILES is the longest word because there is a MILE between the first and last letters!\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nChemical Terms\nTwo chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms. A DNA molecule could have a name of over 1,000,000,000 letters if it was written out in full.\n(1,185) ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERY
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis this is the longest word I found with a total of 45 letters.\n Born nerd NOPE\n  http://www.fun-with-words.com/wordplay_articles.html\nthis is one of my favorite sites for word games and info nerd or not. Have fun
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The Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as the act of estimating (something) as worthless, its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form floccinaucinihilipilificastically is subject to controversy.
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The longest word in any major English language dictionary is Pneu mono ultra micro scopic silico volcano coniosis, a 45-letter word supposed to refer to a lung disease, but research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended context, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. See the separate article for details.\n\nThe Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [1], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.\n\nAntidisestablishmentarianism (a 19th century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is one of English's longest words.\n\nThe longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorificabilitudinitatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), but only because he used it.\n\nThe humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish [1]. At 21 letters (22 counting the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is often asserted that "the name is longer than the fish."\n\nAlthough only fourteen letters long, sesquipedalian deserves a mention. It is derived from a nonce word used by the Roman author Horace, in his work Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry). The quote is as follows: "Proicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba," which means, "He throws aside his paint pots and his words that are a foot and a half long". The Oxford English dictionary[2] lists sesquipedalianism ("the practice of using words one and a half feet long"), and further derivations can be created as described in the Constructions section below.\n\n[edit]\nCoinages\nIn his play Assemblywomen, the ancient Greek comedic poet Aristophanes created a word of 183 letters describing a dish by stringing together its ingredients.\n\nJames Joyce, known for his distinctive style, made up nine 100- and one 101-letter long words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadal­gharagh­takammin­arronn­konn­bronn­tonn­erronn­tuonn­thunn­trovarrhoun­awnskawn­toohoo­hoordenen­thurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly is the symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. As this word appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a real word. Sylvia Plath made mention to that word in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar as Esther Greenwood, the protagonist, was reading Finnegans Wake.\n\nThe well-known song title from the movie Mary Poppins, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", with 34 letters, does appear in several dictionaries, but only as a proper noun, and defined in reference to the song title. Hence it may well be dismissed as not a real word, particularly since the song assigns no meaning to it other than to say it's impressive.\n\nIn the 1970s, there were advertisements for Lip­smackin­thirst­quenchin­acetastin­motivatin­good­buzzin­cool­talkin­high­walkin­fast­livin­ever­givin­cool­fizzin Pepsi, coining a 100-letter term. In 1975, the 71-letter Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun was used in a McDonald's Restaurant advertisement to describe the Big Mac. [3]\n\n\n\nHenry Carey's farce Chrononhotonthologos (1743) holds the opening line: &quo
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pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis\n\n'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust'\n\nThe Guinness Book of Records, in its 1992 and subsequent editions, declared the "longest real word" in the English language to be floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters. Defined as "the act of estimating (something) as worthless", its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741. In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Jesse Helms, and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically. It is the longest non-technical word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. The acceptability of the 33-letter adverbial form flocci­nauci­nihili­pilificastically is subject to controversy. The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, an invented word supposed to refer to a lung disease
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antidisestablishmentarianism:  The longest word in the dictionary.
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It isn't in the dictionary because you spelt it wrong. \n\nTry: Antidisestablishmentarianism\n\nFrom the Oxford English Dictionary:\n\nProperly, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England (rare): but popularly cited as an example of a long word.  \n\n1900 N. & Q. 25 Aug. 147/1 In the recent biography of Dr. Benson is an entry from the Archbishop's diary to the effect that ‘the Free Kirk of the North of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians’. 1923 in Brewer's Dict. Phr. & Fable (new ed.) s.v. Long words. 1960 Amrita Bazar Patrika 17 June 6/4 But then ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’ contains three more letters, as pointed out by two readers. 1984 T. AUGARDE Oxf. Guide Word Games xxvi. 216 The longest words that most people know are antidisestablishmentarianism..and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
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I believe the longest word is...\n\nwhakamahanahanatanga.\n\nThis translates as'the making warm of a number of things'\n\nThe longest place name is:\n\nTetaumata whakatangihanga­koaua o tamatea urehaeaturipuka pihimaunga horo nuku pokaiwhenuaa kitana rahu.\n\nThe name means "The place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed, and swallowed mountains, known as land eater, played his flute to his loved one."\n\nChoice words ay bro! :)
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PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.\nThis is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.
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The Shortest word with the vowels in alphabetical order is AERIOUS (7 Letters).\nThe Longest such word is PHRAGELLIORHYNCHUS - a protozoan (18 Letters).\nSource: http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\n\nAlso another ggod source:\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17\n\nabstemious\nabstemiously\nabstentious\nadventitious\nadventitiously\narenicolous\narsenious\ncavernicolous\n\n\nHere are some other words that have all five vowels in the correct order, but \nalso contain some duplicate vowels which are out of order:\n\nabstemiousness\nabstemiousnesses\nadenocarcinomatous\namentiferous\nanemophilous\nantireligious\nargentiferous\narteriovenous\nautoecious\nautoeciously\nfacetiousness\nfacetiousnesses\ngarnetiferous\nsacrilegious\nsacrilegiously\nsacrilegiousness\nsacrilegiousnesses\nultraserious\n\nA great tool for solving crossword puzzles, anagrams, and questions like this \nis an alveary. There are many freeware and shareware ones available on the web.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=alveary\n\nBryson's TEA (The Electronic Alveary) is excellent. It used to be freeware but \nis now shareware. \n\nhttp://www.bryson.demon.co.uk/tea.html\n\nThe old free DOS version can still be downloaded from\n\nhttp://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/anagram/tea/\n\n    'Eunoia' is the shortest work in English to contain all\n    five vowels, and the word quite literally means 'beuti-\n    ful thinking'. _Eunoia_ is a univocal libogram, in which\n    each chapter restricts itself to the use of a single vowel.\n\nThe whole book appears to be available online,\nSee http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/new_ennui.html\n\nPLEASE NOTE - IMPORTANT - READ THIS FOLLOWING NOTE:\nNothing is from me - i found it all at the following 2 links:\nhttp://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm\nAND\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=17