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Coachpotato, 4 yr 119 days ago

I think the longest word is SMILES.

Because there's a mile between the first letter and the last one. Wink [;)]

Anonymous, 4 yr 97 days ago
Are you sure that that is a real word?
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Philip  +  130102 Tue, 23 Aug 05 11:28 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

hi friends

  i would like to know whtz the longest word in english without vowels. the word i know is RHYTHM. any one who knows a longer word is welcome to reply.

Most everyone who paid attention in 1st grade remembers that "the vowels in English are a, e, i, o, and u, and sometimes y and w".  This is one of the cases where 'y' is a vowel.  'sky' is another example.  The only word in English that I know of without any vowels is 'nth' as in the ultimate.  It is only recently recognized as a word, however. 

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Anonymous, 4 yr 81 days ago
It IS a real word MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Anonymous, 4 yr 80 days ago
Kyyhkyslakka is finnish and it means dovehouse and not dovearcticcloudberry. So there!


Anonymous, 4 yr 79 days ago
I read a D.N.A. molecule could have a name over 1,000,000 letters if written out in full!You just burned that other dude! Smile [:)]                                                  UNKNOWN                                                                                                                                                                                                  
Anonymous, 4 yr 78 days ago
 Philip wrote:
 Anonymous wrote:

hi friends

  i would like to know whtz the longest word in english without vowels. the word i know is RHYTHM. any one who knows a longer word is welcome to reply.

Most everyone who paid attention in 1st grade remembers that "the vowels in English are a, e, i, o, and u, and sometimes y and w".  This is one of the cases where 'y' is a vowel.  'sky' is another example.  The only word in English that I know of without any vowels is 'nth' as in the ultimate.  It is only recently recognized as a word, however. 

The longest word in the English language without the 5 common vowels is nymphfly.  Coming in second place are rhythm and szyzygy. Wikipedia has an article on the debate over the longest word in English, which you can read here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_the_English_language

/bwb.

Blagh  +  140780 Fri, 23 Sep 05 03:25 AM
aaaaaactually its ead that a D.N.A molacule could have a name over 1,000,000,000 letters if writen out in full so Stick out tongue [:P]wooooooooow lol that was kool
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Actuaryalfred, 4 yr 63 days ago
To me it's only a string of letter.
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