What is the largest word in the dictonary?
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It might be "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (which appears in the Oxford English Dictionary), unless you want to count names of diseases (such as "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," defined by the OED as 'a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word'), places (such as "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch," a village in Wales), chemical compounds (apparently there is one that is 1,913 letters long), and also a few words found only in Joyce's Finnegans Wake.\n\nNote: for some unknown reason Yahoo answers will not permit the full posting of the full spelling of these very long words. but you can find the spellings at the website below.
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Once several of my pupils asked me what the biggest word in English is and I replied    if.  Get m y point?
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The "big" ship in the "word"?
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Hi there,\n\nWe 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: \n\notorhinolaryngological (22 letters), \nimmunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), \npsychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), \nthyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), \npneumoencephalographically (26 letters), \nradioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), \npsychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) \nhepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), \nspectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), \npseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). \n\nMost 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 pneumono ultra microscopic silico volcanoconiosis (45 letters). \n(no space is there between the letters. I have added a space because here it is being showed as ...)\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis, 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 meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.[1]\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).\n\nThe longest non-technical word 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.[2][3][4] In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator Robert Byrd [5], and at the White House by Bill Clinton's press secretary Mike McCurry, albeit sarcastically.[6]\n\nAnti­dis­establishment­arianism (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.\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 it was Shakespeare who used it.\n\nThe humuhumu-nukunuku-a-pua‘a, or reef triggerfish, is Hawaii's official state fish.[7] At 22 letters (including the okina) it is one of the best known very long one-word names for an animal. It is occasionally quipped 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 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.
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largest with all the ice\n\n2nd largest without all the ice
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i dunno but i learned the longest word a while back. antidisestablishmentarianism \n\nanti-dise-stab-lish-ment-tar-ian-ism.
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I'm thinking of a word... There's 20000 massive oxford dictionaries in front of you.\n\nIf you pay me $1 and guess the magic word Im thinking of in the correct dictionary, I'll give you a million dollars.
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The Oxford English Dictionary says 'Scraunched'\n\nalthough there are debates about it here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_English_words_with_one_syllable
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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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The word antidisestablishmentarianism, with 28 letters, is commonly regarded as the longest accepted word in the English language. The word is used seriously in academic and ecclesiastical writing about the Church of England when the concept arises, which it does occasionally (See e.g. Hastings and "Some notes on the Church of England and Establishment", below). However, since 1992 it has lost this title to floccinaucinihilipilification in the Guinness Book of Records. (see also: Longest word in English)\n\nIf the word is taken literally, it could mean 'against the enemies of the establishment, but not necessarily aligned with the establishment'. To make an example: If you take terrorism to be against the establishment, and thus disestablishmentarian, then those who oppose terrorism (but don't necessarily support the target of terrorism) could be said to be displaying antidisestablishmentarianism.\n\nAntidisestablishmentarianism might still be the longest word not invented for the specific purpose of being a long word (the word floccinaucinihilipilification may have been invented as a joke, and is an amalgamation of four Latin words[1][2]). Presumably the creation of the word antidisestablishmentarianism invoked the irony of its length, and may have to do with the politics and commentary of the time period. Also, some criticise its validity on the basis that it has two prefixes ("anti-" and "dis"-) and three suffixes ("-ment", "-arian" and "-ism"), stating that it is not only possible to create a number of longer meaningful words by adding ever more prefixes, but that "antidisestablishmentarianism" is not a standalone word because of them. For example, theoretically "antiantidisestablishmentarianism" is a valid word, where it refers specifically to antidisestablishmentarians' opponents, rather than merely disestablishmentarians in general.\n\nP.S.  In science there are larger English words.
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The large Oxfords contain about 1,000,000 words (including scientific words)\n\nThe abridged version contains about 616,500 words\n\nThe most respected thesaurus is Roget's.  \n-MM
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It is the longest non-technical word word in the English language and means the act of calling something worthless or making something worthless by those means.  I honestly did know this word exsisted because I gave it as an answer to a question on here "What is the longest word?"  I didn't get best answer because the asker chose 'antidisestablishmentarianism', probally because he thought my answer of "floccinaucinihilipilification" was just made up. I took Latin at university for two years so yes, I could pronounce this word.
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A big thick dictionary as no words missing
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PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language 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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http://www.wordorigins.org/number.htm\n\n'All told, estimates of the total vocabulary of English start at around three million words and go up from there.'