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Guest  #18590  Thu, 08 Jan 04 09:35 PM
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a word, it mean a lung condition that is caused by breathing in volcanic ash or dust for long periods of time, one of the longest words in the world is
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ellfaz  #18592  Thu, 08 Jan 04 11:00 PM
It is a real word, and i can pronounce it, and i'd like to see you post this 270,000 letter word, whatever it is! (Oh yeah, I had my word checked by an advanced scientist of biology and he said that this word is a word, and is the longest word he new!!
  
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Guest  #19228  Wed, 14 Jan 04 01:44 PM
you can always add a "pseaudo" to "antidisestablishmentarianism" to get a longer word, and it's no more complicated.
  
Guest  #19229  Wed, 14 Jan 04 02:03 PM
German doesn't count, because you can string words together to make longer ones, and it still makes sense - 9,999 in German is neinthausandneinhundertneinundneinzig - all one word (as opposed to the english which is nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine - all hyphenated). The longest German word I know is (without the accents that I can't type): Das Donaudampfgesselschaftskapitanmutzensilbersteinlein, meanind the little silver star on the hat of the captain of the Danube shipping society. But it doesn't count because you could add more words inside, to mean the little six-pointed ater, or the the eighty-ninth captain, and so on
  
Guest  #19418  Fri, 16 Jan 04 02:11 AM
Guys - sorry, but i think you are wrong.........!!!!!


'Floccinaucinihilipilification' which means 'the act of estimating as worthless' is the longest non-medical word in the English language; it's 29 letters long.

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Guest  #19844  Tue, 20 Jan 04 09:44 PM
Those aren't thee longest words! What about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?
If you want to find this word you need to look in an unibridged dictionry page 1491.

  
Guest  #20257  Sat, 24 Jan 04 08:52 PM
Most unibridged Dictionaries are the same page numberings but the one I'm using is Webster's New Universal Unibridged Dictionary>
  
Guest  #20333  Sun, 25 Jan 04 03:47 PM
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lutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylala
nylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylargi
nylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanyl
valylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylasp
artylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylgluta
minylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonyl
arginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparagi
nylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleu
cyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylgl
ycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine or is it

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utamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylgl
ycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleu
cylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylph
enylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylaspara
ginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylgl
utaminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllys
ylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparagi
nylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylal
anylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartyl
valylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylle
ucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprol
ylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosyl
glycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycyl
alanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylala
nyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphe
nylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspart
ylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucyli
soleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleu
cylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo
nylarginylserine

or

Propseudocontraneoantidisestablishmentarianalistically

and the railway station

Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollônpenrhynareurdraethceredigion

Shakespeare's longest word

honorificabilitudinitatibus

and finally:

207,000+ letter word cited by the Guinness Book of Records which allegedly represents the name for human mitochondrial DNA. (cannot find it in full)

Ps: I'll let you count the number of letters in the first few wordsSmile [:)]
  
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