http://www.englishforums.com/English/PuzzlesRiddlesWordGames/Forum20.htmPeople find and post puzzles and riddles– short or long, easy or hard– and we all try to solve them.enXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#509605Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:509605Baka Saru0http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#509605http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-509605.xmlI hope I type this correctly, because this was what I've studied long long ago that I couldn't read my own handwriting. Supercalafreigalisticexpraladocious = stupid, crazy, mad. I don't know...My teacher said that it was the longest word in the English Dictionaryhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#507975Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:507975Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#507975http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-507975.xmlA simple answer, theres one word in the Enlish language that is the longest. It consists of 1909 letters. xD Im not going to type it because it might take me an hour, but i'll tell you the meaning. It is a term for the forumula C1289H2051N343O375S8. A Trytophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#480793Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:480793Clive2http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/3/qvxk/Post.htm#480793http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-480793.xmlHi, I think you have a typo. Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#480779Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:480779Anonymous3http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#480779http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-480779.xmlwell done you're only about 1790 letters off lol Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen- ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta- mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre- onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta- minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu- cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle- ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu- celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa- raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal- anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen- ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#216361Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:216361Anonymous4http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#216361http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-216361.xmlWell, this is probably a little too late, but yet very ironic. The scientific name for the fear of long words is hippopotomonstrausousquipedaliophobia. Can you imagine having that fear? You'd start to cry when people asked about your "condition!"http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#216324Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:216324Anonymous5http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#216324http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-216324.xmlThe true longest word is 1897 letters long and here's the site: http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorld/vzkn/Post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#199185Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:199185Cupid6http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#199185http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-199185.xmlSupercalifragilisticexpialidocious is long enough for me Thanx to Mary Popz Cheershttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#199045Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:199045Anonymous7http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#199045http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-199045.xmlther is actually a word that is 1913 letters but i cant rember it so supercalifragalisticecxpialadocioushttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#197290Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:197290Anonymous8http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#197290http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-197290.xmli found many words that are verry long 45) PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS ) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust. This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers' League , in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new "longest word". The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious . Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster's , Random House , and Chambers dictionaries. (37) HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES = a surgical creation...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#167399Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:167399Zibblate9http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#167399http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-167399.xmlAccording to the Oxford Dictionary... We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: 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),...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#166688Sat, 23 May 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:166688Anonymous10http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#166688http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-166688.xmlaequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic 52 letters..http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#139162Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:139162Anonymous11http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#139162http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-139162.xmlForever Eternity Bryant InnocentEnglish.comhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#139056Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:139056Anonymous12http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#139056http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-139056.xmlpneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosishttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#127890Sat, 23 May 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:127890Anonymous13http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#127890http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-127890.xmlHow can pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis be a single word? Isn't it just silicovolcanoconiosis of a pneumonoultramicroscopic nature? Doesn't that mean that all microscopic specimens can be microscopicspecimens, or microscopic doses microscopicdoses, etc.? When are you allowed to form a long word from an adjective and noun and when not? Patheticpedanticidioticneuroticpsychoticmanicsycophanticantilogologisthttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#123052Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:123052Anonymous14http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#123052http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-123052.xmlPNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS (45 letters; a lung disease caused by breathing in certain particles) is the longest word in any English-language dictionary. (It is also spelled -koniosis.)http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#122607Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:122607Anonymous15http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#122607http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-122607.xmlMate that's not English, That is from Latin, Its the same in all languages. Scientific names are International names and they are the same all over the world!http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#121969Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:121969Anonymous16http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#121969http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-121969.xmlfloccinaucinihilipilification is longer than antidisastablishmentarianism by one letter but is not as well known. Some people also say that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word. I'm not sure what is righthttp://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#82771Sat, 23 May 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:82771nona the brit17http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#82771http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-82771.xmlWe have already had an absolutely huge debate on this recently and I think the number of posts went into the 100s. I don't think we want to start it all over again so I am cutting this thread off here, sorry. Please run a quick search of the forum and you will find the existing thread.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#82207Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:82207Guest18http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#82207http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-82207.xmldo chemical names count?http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#80047Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:80047David19http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htm#80047http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-80047.xmlSmiles. A mile between the two ss. Antidisestablishmentarianism. Hope I spelt it correctly.http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htmSat, 23 May 2009 08:32:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:80012scorpiojay20http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/qvxk/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments20-80012.xmlhi !I'm new here.nice to see you all.please help me to find a long English word.my curiosity asked me to do this kind of thing.......