Words, Puns, and Jokes

Re: Longest word in the english language?

seyfihoca — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:31:52 GMT

and to sum up:

THE LONGEST WORDS IN ENGLISH

â¢ According to the Guinness Book of World Records, 18th edition, the following word is the longest chemical word for C1289H2051N343O375S8. Methionylglutaminy...serine is a scientific name for tryptophan synthetase, which is made up of 267 amino acids. It has appeared written down a number of times and has 1,909 letters.
The full name is:
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginy

llysylglutamylglycylalanylphenylalanylvalyl

prolylphenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylserylleucyllysyl

isoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucylglutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglycyl

isoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminyla

sparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutamin

ylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylhistidylprolylthre

onylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasp

araginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalyl

glycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylph

enylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanylprolylisoleucylphenylala

nylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminylisoleu

cylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthre

onylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylala

nyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenylalanylg

lycylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanyla

lanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhisti

dylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalany

lvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine

â¢ pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a lung disease caused by the inhalation of
â¢ Honorificabilitudinitatibus
â¢ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
â¢ contraneoantidisestablishmentarianalistically
â¢ The technical term for "Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain" is the current official longest word:
â¢ Antidisestablishmentarianism (a movement opposed to the separation of church and state)
o -disestablishment- - the separation of Church and State (specifically in this context it is the political movement of the 1860s in Great Britain)
o disestablishment-arian - a person in support of the movement designed to bring about the above (hereafter called the 'first' movement).
o anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the movement opposed to the first movement.
o neo-anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement. (Appropriate because in this context the original antidisestablishment movement had become defunct).
o contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian - a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement.
o contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - behaving in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement.
o pseudo-contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - false behaviour in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement.
o pro-pseudo-contra-neo-anti-disestablishment-arian-alistically - in favour of the false behaviour in the manner of a person belonging to the movement opposed to the new version of the movement opposed to the first movement.
â¢ Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.
â¢ Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name of a town in Wales in the United Kingdom.
â¢ The longest station name in the UK, at 68 letters, is: Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollÃ´npenrhynareurdraethceredigion which was contrived to beat the Welsh Town.
â¢ The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
â¢ The longest hyphenated name in the U.S. is Winchester-on-the-Severn, a town in Maryland.
â¢ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - is the fear of long words (36 letters long).
â¢ Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly is the symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve.
â¢ "Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun" was used in a McDonald's Restaurant advertisement.
â¢ Floccinaucinihilipilification is the act or habit of esteeming or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by said means.
â¢ sesquipedalianism means "the practice of using words one and half feet long".
â¢ otorhinolaryngological (22 letters),
immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters),
psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters),
thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters),
pneumoencephalographically (26 letters),
radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters),
psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters)
hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters),
spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters),
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).
â¢ In Voltaire's Candide, Pangloss is supposed to have given lectures on metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology (34 letters).
â¢ Greek words, and the Latin equivalents; osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous (44 letters) and osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 letters), which translate roughly as 'of bone, flesh, blood, organs, gristle, nerve, and marrow'.
â¢ praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters), used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters), attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737).
â¢ The formal names of chemical compounds are almost unlimited in length (for example, aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile, 40 letters).
â¢ Pneumonoultramicroscpicsilicovolcanoconiosis
â¢ Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe
â¢ Krungthepmahanakornamornratanakosinmahintarayutthayamahadilokphopnopparatrajathaniburiromudo

mrajaniwesmahasatharnamornphimarnavatarnsathitsakkattiyavisanukamprasit
in Thailand which is a whopping 163 characters long so long that it doesn't even fit on one line! However whilst the New Zealand place name is recognised by the Guiness Book of Record, the Thailand name is not.
â¢ fluvialgeomorphologicaldendrochronology

in turkish we have: hassasiyetsizlestiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmisiniz

which more or less means "are you from those whom we will not be able to make sensitive to ...?

Re: Longest word in the english language?

seyfihoca — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:30:21 GMT

has anyone suggested

Gorsafawddacha'idraigodanheddogleddollÃ´npenrhynareurdraethceredigion

The longest station name in the UK

Re: Longest word in the english language?

Guest — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:12:15 GMT

Hey, I know what that New Zealand hill name means... ready for it?... here it is:

"the summit of the hill, where Tamatea, who is known as the land eater, slid down, climbed up and swallowed mountains, played on his nose flute to his loved one."

:-D even though I have never heard of a nose flute before this is the meaning,

from a man with many sides.

Re: longest word

Guest — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:40:34 GMT

what are the five longest words in engilsh

Re: Longest word in the english language?

asdf_user — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 01:27:50 GMT

I dont think that places or chemical names really count in this forum

Re: Longest word in the English language?

wannabe_novelist — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:26:54 GMT

Yeah, I think it is "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" even though it isn't English. lol

I heard it meant "town on a hill" but I am not positively sure. Sounds about right...

novelist

Words or phrases that rhyme with "Chicago"

Guest — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 02:26:15 GMT

I'm looking for words or phrases that rhyme with "Chicago" for a limerick that I'm writing. Please help!

Re: longest word

Guest — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:59:35 GMT

Is this a real word

Re: Longest word in the English language?

greenguyspikey — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:44:42 GMT

the longest word in the english language is PNEUMONOÂULTRAÂMICROÂSCOPICÂSILICOÂVOLCANOÂCONIOSIS (can also be spelled PNEUMONOÂULTRAÂMICROÂSCOPICÂSILICOÂVOLCANOÂKONIOSIS ) which are both the long version of pneumonia

crazy isnt it

i got my information from www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html

Re: Longest word in the English language?

NON CONFORMER — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:00:11 GMT

What about:

Antiestablishmentarianism

Re: Longest word in the english language?

Guest — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 04:10:51 GMT

what about electromagnetichydrodynamic engine thats pretty long!!!

Re: longest word

vbblueeyes — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 05:41:42 GMT

are u from germany?

Re: Longest word in the English language?

zickleinausdeutschland9966 — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:35:20 GMT

heres a long german word
einblauerglÃ¤nzenderWÃ¼rfelformteVerzierungaufdemWeihnachtsbaumeinesMannesderineinem
kleinenweiÃenHausineinemWaldvolldergelbenBÃ¤umelebtundKartenfÃ¼reinLebensammelt

in english it means a blue shiny cube shaped ornament on the christmas tree of a man who lives in a small white house in a forest full of yellow trees and collects tickets for a living

Re: Longest word in the English language?

zickleinausdeutschland9966 — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:17:12 GMT

i dont know how its spelt but its pronounced
nuneramultramicroscopicsilovolvocanieconieosis
its a disease that coal miners get

Re: Longest word in the English language?

Guest — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 00:21:55 GMT

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THREONYLSERYLALANYLPROLYLALANYLSERINE

= Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

An evil amount of 1,185 letters! I got this at http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html