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Guest, 5 yr 305 days ago
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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hitchhiker  +  19032 Tue, 13 Jan 04 03:24 AM
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Guest, 5 yr 299 days ago
you can always add a "pseaudo" to "antidisestablishmentarianism" to get a longer word, and it's no more complicated.
Guest, 5 yr 299 days ago
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, 5 yr 298 days ago
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, 5 yr 293 days ago
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, 5 yr 289 days ago
Most unibridged Dictionaries are the same page numberings but the one I'm using is Webster's New Universal Unibridged Dictionary>
Guest, 5 yr 288 days ago
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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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