Pemmican  +  5369 Sat, 23 Aug 03 03:37 AM What's the longest possible English word in that every letter occurs only once? Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus... Longest Words

	Pemmican  +  5451 Sun, 24 Aug 03 02:40 AM Not even a try? Well then, I'll give you a hint: It has 15 letters... Pemmican

	Woodward  +  5465 Sun, 24 Aug 03 05:32 AM I'll need time to think about this, or should I say, look it up! Woodward Joined on Tue, Jun 24 2003 A New Zealander in Chile Senior Member 2,747 Don't let schooling interfere with your education. www.grammar.cl - www.vocabulary.cl

	Pemmican  +  5624 Mon, 25 Aug 03 10:50 PM 2nd hint: all the five vowels occur... Pemmican Longest Words, Vowels

	Pemmican  +  5653 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:19 AM Any try? Pemmican

	Woodward  +  5655 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:27 AM It's a bit difficult, and I still haven't had time to find it. Give it a couple of days in case someone else knows it. Woodward Longest Words

	Pemmican  +  5657 Tue, 26 Aug 03 01:32 AM Ok, I will... but I don't think it's possible to find such a word when you don't know it... it'll be damn hard to conclude a word like that I'd say... Pemmican Longest Words

	hitchhiker  +  5674 Tue, 26 Aug 03 04:02 AM I tried it, I found 38,000+ words with no letter repetition; the longest were.. dermatoglyphics (15), uncopyrightable (15) This was from an indexed dictionary of 'normal / regular' words. Here's the top lot! 15,"dermatoglyphics" 15,"uncopyrightable" 14,"troublemakings" 14,"dermatoglyphic" 14,"ambidextrously" 13,"documentarily" 13,"consumptively" 13,"copyrightable" 13,"endolymphatic" 13,"flowchartings" 13,"hydromagnetic" 13,"lycanthropies" 13,"troublemaking" 13,"unpredictably" 13,"unproblematic" 13,"subordinately" 13,"metalworkings" 13,"multibranched" hitchhiker Joined on Mon, Nov 18 2002 Richmond, UK Senior Member 4,036 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement... Longest Words

	Elena  +  5682 Tue, 26 Aug 03 08:02 AM Overwhelming answer. And almost all those words come from Latin and some of them from Greek. I like 'dermatoglyphics' , the folds on skin, I never realised I had dermatoglyphics, beautiful word related to fingerprints. (Is 'overwhelming' correctly used here?) Elena Joined on Thu, Jul 31 2003 Regular Member 827 Enjoying my English study Longest Words