This is weird but i actually know the longest word in the dictionary. When my little sister was in the third grade she got a dictionary with the longest word in the back. Ok, so here it is.
It consists of 1,1909 letters and it is a term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8. A Tryptophan synthetase A protein, and enzyme that has 267 amino acids.
The longest word that is found in a major dictionary that is not a technical word, a place name or an artificially contrived name deliberately made unnecessarily long just to be called the longest word is antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), which means opposition to the withdrawal of state support from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. There are extended variations of this word such as psuedoantidisestablishmentarianism, and extentions of that word such as psuedoantidisestablish mentarianistically (40) (broken up so that it will all print) and semipsuedoantidisestablish mentarianisticalness (46) (broken up so that it will all print), but these aren’t ordinary words in the sense that we normally mean – words that are natural in origin and are used by some ordinary people for ordinary reasons. These words exist just to be the longest words, and you won’t find them outside of discussions of the longest word. Likewise with most of the following words, which cannot be found in ordinary usage or with searches of Google, Usenet, the Chadwyk LION database, the Lexis-Nexis newspaper/magazine archive or the Oxford English Dictionary.
Methionyl-threonyl-threonyl ... isoleucine (a 189,819 letter name for the protein titin with hundreds of amino acids represented by the dots) and Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30) are are both longer, but they're technical words, and that's not usually what a person means by the longest English word. Pneumonoultra microscopicsilico volcanoconiosis (45) (broken up so that it will all print) is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary, but it's also a technical name. This 45-letter, 19-syllable word is an obscure term and an artificial word for a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes. And the disease doesn’t require that we name that the silica comes from a volcano, so the word could be pneumonoultra microscopicsiliconiosis (36). After all, it would be the same disease if the silica came from a bag.
Antihypersyllabic- sesquipedalianistic (36) (broken up so that it will all print) and floccinaucinihili- pilification (29) (broken up so that it will all print) are artificially long and knowingly redundant. Floccinaucinihili pilification was coined to be long and funny.
Hippopotomonstrosesquip -pedaliophobia (36), often said to mean a fear of big words, is not in the dictionary, and is already represented by a shorter word, sesquipedalophobia [sesquipedalian + -phobia].
Taumatawhakata-ngihangakoauauota- mateapokaiwh- enuakitanatahu is a place name in New Zealand. Some of these place names are entire sentences in an indigenous language. Even people who live there don’t call it that. Bu the word exists, and it’s long, so it is noted here.
So, if you’re willing to accept a technical or place name, or an artificial word deliberately made overlong just to be the longest word, there are longer ones, but for an ordinary word found in virtually all dictionaries that is actually used sometimes by lay people, the answer is antidisestablishmentarianism.
The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’. The word is forty-five letters long and describes a lung disease.
THE LONGEST WORD EVER IS THE CHEMICAL EQUASION FOR TITIN (THE LARGEST PROTEIN). IT IS 189,819 LETTERS LONG. NO JOKE. SEE SOURCES FOR PROOF. SOZ BUT I COULDNT COPY AND PASTE IT!!!!
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This is weird but i actually know the longest word in the dictionary. When my little sister was in the third grade she got a dictionary with the longest word in the back. Ok, so here it is.
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It consists of 1,1909 letters and it is a term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8. A Tryptophan synthetase A protein, and enzyme that has 267 amino acids.
The longest word that is found in a major dictionary that is not a technical word, a place name or an artificially contrived name deliberately made unnecessarily long just to be called the longest word is antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), which means opposition to the withdrawal of state support from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. There are extended variations of this word such as psuedoantidisestablishmentarianism, and extentions of that word such as psuedoantidisestablish mentarianistically (40) (broken up so that it will all print) and semipsuedoantidisestablish mentarianisticalness (46) (broken up so that it will all print), but these aren’t ordinary words in the sense that we normally mean – words that are natural in origin and are used by some ordinary people for ordinary reasons. These words exist just to be the longest words, and you won’t find them outside of discussions of the longest word. Likewise with most of the following words, which cannot be found in ordinary usage or with searches of Google, Usenet, the Chadwyk LION database, the Lexis-Nexis newspaper/magazine archive or the Oxford English Dictionary.
Methionyl-threonyl-threonyl ... isoleucine (a 189,819 letter name for the protein titin with hundreds of amino acids represented by the dots) and Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30) are are both longer, but they're technical words, and that's not usually what a person means by the longest English word. Pneumonoultra microscopicsilico volcanoconiosis (45) (broken up so that it will all print) is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary, but it's also a technical name. This 45-letter, 19-syllable word is an obscure term and an artificial word for a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes. And the disease doesn’t require that we name that the silica comes from a volcano, so the word could be pneumonoultra microscopicsiliconiosis (36). After all, it would be the same disease if the silica came from a bag.
Antihypersyllabic- sesquipedalianistic (36) (broken up so that it will all print) and floccinaucinihili- pilification (29) (broken up so that it will all print) are artificially long and knowingly redundant. Floccinaucinihili pilification was coined to be long and funny.
Hippopotomonstrosesquip -pedaliophobia (36), often said to mean a fear of big words, is not in the dictionary, and is already represented by a shorter word, sesquipedalophobia [sesquipedalian + -phobia].
Taumatawhakata-ngihangakoauauota- mateapokaiwh- enuakitanatahu is a place name in New Zealand. Some of these place names are entire sentences in an indigenous language. Even people who live there don’t call it that. Bu the word exists, and it’s long, so it is noted here.
So, if you’re willing to accept a technical or place name, or an artificial word deliberately made overlong just to be the longest word, there are longer ones, but for an ordinary word found in virtually all dictionaries that is actually used sometimes by lay people, the answer is antidisestablishmentarianism.
The longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis’. The word is forty-five letters long and describes a lung disease.
the longest word in the oxford dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.
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THE LONGEST WORD EVER IS THE CHEMICAL EQUASION FOR TITIN (THE LARGEST PROTEIN). IT IS 189,819 LETTERS LONG. NO JOKE. SEE SOURCES FOR PROOF. SOZ BUT I COULDNT COPY AND PASTE IT!!!!
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