LONGEST WORDS
G'day folks,
Welcome to some of the longest words in the English language. Some are gob smackers.The
English language has many very long words, like these ...
Floccinaucinihilipilification:
To describe something worthless.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: According to 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.'
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: This long word was coined by Shakespeare which means 'the state of being able to achieve honors'.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: According to 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.'
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: This long word was coined by Shakespeare which means 'the state of being able to achieve honors'.
Antidisestablishmentarianism: This is the longest non-coined and non-technical English word which was found in C19th to oppose the 'disestablishment of the Church of England as the state church of England'.
Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl
[...] isoleucine
Here's the deal: the world's longest English word has exactly 189,819 letters
in it and it takes 3 hours and 33 minutes to pronounce it completely!
Ablutophobia:
Fear of washing or having a bath
Absorbefacient: Inducing or boosting absorption
Adiathermancy: Impervious to radiant heat or infrared radiation or unaffected by heat waves
Agglutination: The construction of words from component morphemes that retain their form and meaning in spite of the blending.
Arachibutyrophobia: One having fear about peanut butter sticking to the mouth roof
Aurantiaceous: Appertaining to oranges or orange trees
Automatonophobia: One having fear about dummies, animatronic creatures, statues of wax
Autothaumaturgist: A person who exudes an air of mystery around himself / herself consciously; someone pretending to be an enigma
Autotonsorialist: A person who cuts his own hair
Automysophobia: Fear of getting dirty
Clancy's comment: Mm ... are you breathless?
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10th to 17th of November 2013
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