So whats the longest word you can think of, just of the top of your head. Please do not cheat as it spoils it.
Mine is:
Incommunicable
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So whats the longest word you can think of, just of the top of your head. Please do not cheat as it spoils it.
Mine is:
Incommunicable
polynominial
Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconeosis. That's definitely spelled wrong, but I memorized how to say that word a while ago (I didn't cheat, I swear). It's some kind of lung disease caused by inhaling volcano ash.
EDIT: So long VBulletin put a space in for me :p
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. That word is very ironic.
Antidisestablishmentarianism...
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I thought that had been proven to be a hoax word... Eh. Maybe not. I dunno.Quote:
Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconeo sis. That's definitely spelled wrong, but I memorized how to say that word a while ago (I didn't cheat, I swear). It's some kind of lung disease caused by inhaling volcano ash.
No, it's a lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica.Quote:
I thought that had been proven to be a hoax word... Eh. Maybe not. I dunno.Quote:
Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconeo sis. That's definitely spelled wrong, but I memorized how to say that word a while ago (I didn't cheat, I swear). It's some kind of lung disease caused by inhaling volcano ash.
why does it have such a long name?
[QUOTE=Decessus]Yeah, I thought the disease itself was made up.Quote:
No, it's a lung disease caused by inhaling particles of silica.
EDIT: Nevermind. I checked it out. It exists.
actually, i'm pretty simple so i think my big word for the day is improbable it's funny because it's true
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
WALES IS FAMOUS FOR SOMETHING AT LAST :excited:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Edit: BOTHER! >=o
Hypernevrokustiskediafragmakontraksjoner.
Norwegian for hiccups.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, even though it was mentioned before.
Isn't the word hiccup onomatopoeia?Quote:
Originally Posted by Levian
It's the medical term. We normally call it Hikke.
And you're the onomatopoeia imho.
Atomrakettutskytnigsrampe.
Floccinaucicihilipification. It's not particularly long, but it makes up for it by being quite easy to fit into everyday conversation.
I like the end... smiles!Quote:
Q. What is the longest word in the dictionary?
A. It depends . . .
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.
Other words famous for being sesquipedalian:
antidisestablishmentarianism ("opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England")
floccinaucinihilipilification
honorificabilitudinitatibus (Which appears in Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, and which has been cited as [dubious] evidence that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays)
Or perhaps smiles is the longest word — after all, there is a mile between the first letter and the last.
THE JACKEL
Off the top of my head? Pericombobulations. Not sure if it's even a real word! There's also antidisestablishment, actually. Which is longer. So there you go.
EDIT: Turns out you can extend that last word with an 'arianism' but I couldn't remember that bit.
I'd believe it.Quote:
Hypernevrokustiskediafragmakontraksjoner .
Norwegian for hiccups.
xD its so great that we thought of the same thing at the same time xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Faris
Damn you. BOTH OF YOU! :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by boris no no
Noobcakes. It may not be longer but it is uber.
Discobobulation. =|
I was going to say that one, but I knew someone would beat me to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill
Blah. *boom*
A lot of people make it seem like antidisestablishmentarianism is a hard word to spell, but it's really not. All ya have to do is sound it out! It's easier than many small words.
Edit: IBCrayZ beat me too it. :mad:
isskabibble. =p
My friend says it all the time, not sure if it's real.
including names: Billybobbobjoeybobfread
Wow, that Wales thing is real? I just thought Old Manus fell asleep on his keyboard or something.
uncharacteristically
this on the back ofmy inhaler:
trichloramangfluoromethane
pulchritudinous
It's not long, but it sounds long XD I know the p word (the longest one in english language) but people already said it. ^^