What is the longest word in English?

chris42

antidisestablishmentarianism http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antidisestablishmentarianism [Added reference link - McG] Jan 15 06, 5:35 AM

Czolgolz

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is longer, according to the book of records. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust causing inflammation in the lungs. Occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word." It was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. This 45-letter word, referred to as P45, first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition. It is listed in the current edition of several dictionaries. A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis [Added reference - McG] Jan 15 06, 11:20 PM

Czolgolz

I once had to say the word "honorificabilitudinitatibus" in a play, Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorificabilitudinitatibus http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-hon1.htm [Added reference links - McG] Jan 16 06, 7:18 PM

intergalactic9

The single longest real word in the English dictionary is "Ornicopytheobiblopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoi- cichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphi-tohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithopessopscphocatoptrotephraoeir-ochiroomychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac" consisting of 310 letters and meaning a deluded human who practices divination or forecasting. http://www.angelfire.com/comics/wow1/Point%20less/longest%20words.htm Jun 14 08, 4:02 PM

McGruff

Question #57991. Bella1893 asks: What is the longest word in the English dictionary? ogicu8abruok answers: While the answer is different according to which dictionary you are referencing, most people, including the Guinness Book of Records, will say: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (n) a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust. Common in miners, also known as miner's disease. Jun 27 05, 2:44 PM Also see Questions #36486 and #59936 http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question36486.html http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question59936.html Jun 15 08, 10:12 AM

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