Longest words in the English language
English which some see as the easier while others see it as the most difficult to understand. Normally, students either use British or America English in their writing of essays, stories, poems, letters and lot more but some words are tend to be so so terrific that when you hear it you will wonder or doubt the listed below that are they truly existing words in this world.I could never imagine, words with more than thousand letters. Kindly get yourself a good and well equipped dictionary to find the availability and semantics of the following 16 longest words.
16. Honorificabilitudinita - Tibus (27 letters)
The word occurs in
Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost,
and mens "with honorablenesses." It can also be viewed as a
rearrangement of the Latin sentence "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti
orbi", meaning: "Tese plays, F.Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the
world. This twist has been used to support the"Baconian theory" that
Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays.
However, in The
Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University
Press, 1957), William F. and Elizebeth S. Friedman have
similar anagrams that "prove" Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, and
Gertrude Stein also wrote Shakespeare.
15. Antidisestablishmentarianism(28 letters)
The word means, according
Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, "a
doctrine of opposition to disestablishment (withdrawal of state
patronage, support, or exclusive recognition from a church)".
It is said to have been used once by British Prime Minister William
Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898).
Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898).
14. Floccinaucinihilipipification (29 letters)
This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".
13. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - "Wonderful" (34
letters)
11. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters)
Used by Mark McShane in
his novel Untimely Ripped (1963). It means the act of surpassing the
act of transubstantiation, which refers specifically to
the transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of
Christ during the Roman Catholic mass.
11. Hepaticocholangiocholecystentersotomies - "Gall Bladder surgery" (39 letters)
Found in Gould's Medical Dictionary. It is defined as "the surgical formation of a passage between the gall bladder and hepatic duct, on the one hand, andbetween the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other".
10. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - "A lung disease" (45 letters)
Found in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 8th edition. It is "a
pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust". It occurs especially in miners.
9. Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops
of the coprofied (50 letters)
of the coprofied (50 letters)
The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and
Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais.
8. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary
(51 letters)
(51 letters)
A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading
Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock.
7. Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic - "Spa waters at Bath, England" (52 letters)
Describes the composition of the spa wters at Bristol, in Gloucestershire, England. The word was coined by an English medical writer, Dr. Edward Strother (1675 - 1737).
6. Bababadalgharaghtakamminapronnkonnbronntonnepronnt-
uonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk
(100 letters)
uonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk
(100 letters)
This
word is on the first pate of Finegans Wake by James Joyce, and is
a symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. (Other
100-letter words appear
throughout the book.)
5. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrim-
matosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophat-
toperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaph-
etraganopterygon (182 letters) "The name of a 17 ingrediant Greek dish"
5. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrim-
matosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophat-
toperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaph-
etraganopterygon (182 letters) "The name of a 17 ingrediant Greek dish"
The
English transliteration of a Greek word that occurs
in Aristophanes' play The
Ecclesiazusae. The word is defined a "a goulash composed of all
the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks", or "has". A more,
detailed translation is
"plattero-filletomulleti-turboto-cranio-morselo-
pickleo-acido-silphio-honeyo-poured on the top of theouzelo-throstleo-cushato-culvero-roastingo-
marrowo-dippero-levereto-syrupo-gibleto-wings.
"plattero-filletomulleti-turboto-cranio-morselo-
pickleo-acido-silphio-honeyo-poured on the top of theouzelo-throstleo-cushato-culvero-roastingo-
marrowo-dippero-levereto-syrupo-gibleto-wings.
4. Ornicopytheobiblopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroaustrohieroanthropoi- cichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotanopegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphi-tohalomolybdoclerobeloaxinocoscinodactyliogeolithopessopscphocatoptrotephraoeir-ochiroomychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenoscapulinaniac- "A deluded human who practices divination or forecasting" (310 letters)
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2. Methionylglutaminylarginytyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminyll-eucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanyvalylprolylphenylalanyl-valythreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolyglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysyl-isoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucelalanyla-spartyglycylprolythreonylisoleucylglutamiylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylala-nylphenylalanylalanylglycylvalyltheonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanygll-utamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthreonyl-isoleucylpriIylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalyp-henylalanylasparaginyllysylgyycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanyl-gutaminyllcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylavlylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylasp-artylvalyprolylvalylglutaminylglutamyllserylalanyprolyphenylalanylarginylglutaminylal-anylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvaylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleu-cylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginyglutam-inylisoleucylalanyylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylser-ylarginylalanylglycylvalythreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylanylalanylleu-cylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvaylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasarag-inylglycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylala-nylisoleucylaspartylalanylalanyglycylalanylalanyglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycyseryla-lanylisoleucylbalyllsylisoleucylisoleucylglutamyyylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisole-ucylglutamylprolyglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalaby-lvalylglutaminlylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine - "Scientific name for Trypthophan synthetase (that is a protien with 267 amino acids) (1 909 letters)
1. (3,600 letters)
A chemical name describing bovine NADP - specific glutamate
dehydrogenase, which contains 500 amino acids.
** - deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is alleged to have 207 000 letters, but has never been printed in full.
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