http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aLongest+WordsSearch results for 'tag:Longest Words' matching tag 'Longest Words'en-USXMOD (Build: 3607.32596)http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatLongestWordEnglishWithoutVowels/kwlxz/post.htm#925106Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:54:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:925106grammar geekThis has already been asked somewhere. There are no English words in use that have no vowel sounds. i think you will find there is eg, shy What sound do you associate with the "y" in "shy"? For that matter, what sound do you associate with the "y" in "myth" or "hymn"?http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatLongestWordEnglishWithoutVowels/kwlxz/post.htm#925087Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:40:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:925087anonymousThis has already been asked somewhere. There are no English words in use that have no vowel sounds. i think you will find there is eg, shyhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/MedicalWords/klcgw/post.htmSun, 06 Sep 2009 20:50:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:889941anonymousim looking for the longest word in the medical dictionary. that has to do with gastric px.http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatLongestWordEnglishWithoutVowels/kwlxz/post.htm#877962Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:18:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:877962mister micawberThis has already been asked somewhere. There are no English words in use that have no vowel sounds.http://www.englishforums.com/English/Words/kdbcn/post.htmThu, 06 Aug 2009 20:00:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:850285anonymousWhat is the world's longest word?http://www.englishforums.com/English/VowellessWords/krjcq/post.htmTue, 28 Jul 2009 22:21:27 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:837861anonymousWhat is the longest word with no vowels or y'shttp://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishWords/jppbx/post.htm#830261Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:08:40 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:830261tanitAgain? Please have a look at the following two threads and you will find some possible (but questionable) answers: 6 letter word with no vowels? Longest word without vowels (Time to lock this thread...)http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishWords/jppbx/post.htmWed, 22 Jul 2009 09:27:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:829750anonymoustHe Longest words w/out a vowel? answer Pleasehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/Words/jmjdk/post.htmThu, 09 Jul 2009 22:53:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:813307anonymouswhat is the longest word that a 12 year old american can sayhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/AWordsLeastLetters/15/blxbx/Post.htm#751181Wed, 27 May 2009 17:55:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:751181anonymousLongest word in the english dictionary 45 letters long: Pneumonoultramicroscpicsilicovolcanoconiosis- I think that's how you spell it......Goolge it >,<http://www.englishforums.com/English/AWordsLeastLetters/14/blxbx/Post.htm#695943Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:37:16 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:695943isswaryaLongest Words (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 of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestEnglishWords/3/bdwgj/Post.htm#657006Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:05:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:657006anonymousWell th massive word was words repeated, if you look closley it says the same things over and over again. My longest word would be, amalaganation which means ' a mixture of things' or Lacadaisical which means, someone who shows a lack of interest in something. Not sure which one is the longest i am Lacadaisical to count them ;] xhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorldEnglish-Language/2/vbhgx/Post.htm#614644Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:53:03 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:614644anonymousSUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCOUS one of the longest words too ??http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEnglishDictionary-Vocabulary/pbqz/post.htm#611016Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:17:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:611016anonymousACETYLSERYLTYROSYLSERYLISOLEUCYL- THREONYLSERYLPROLYLSERYLGLUTAMINYL- PHENYLALANYLVALYLPHENYLALANYLLEUCYL- SERYLSERYLVALYLTRYPTOPHYLALANYL- ASPARTYLPROLYLISOLEUCYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYL- LEUCYLASPARAGINYLVALYLCYSTEINYL- THREONYLSERYLSERYLLEUCYLGLYCYL- ASPARAGINYLGLUTAMINYLPHENYLALANYL- GLUTAMINYLTHREONYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYL- ALANYLARGINYLTHREONYLTHREONYL- GLUTAMINYLVALYLGLUTAMINYLGLUTAMINYL- PHENYLALANYLSERYLGLUTAMINYLVALYL- TRYPTOPHYLLYSYLPROLYLPHENYLALANYL- PROLYLGLUTAMINYLSERYLTHREONYLVALYL- ARGINYLPHENYLALANYLPROLYLGLYCYL- ASPARTYLVALYLTYROSYLLYSYLVALYLTYROSYL- ARGINYLTYROSYLASPARAGINYLALANYLVALYL- LEUCYLASPARTYLPROLYLLEUCYLISOLEUCYL- THREONYLALANYLLEUCYLLEUCYLGLYCYL- THREONYLPHENYLALANYLASPARTYLTHREONYL- ARGINYLASPARAGINYLARGINYLISOLEUCYL-...http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatWordLongestEnglish/3/dnxjc/Post.htm#552256Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:31:34 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:552256makissLongest words in the English language 9=Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - "Wonderful" (34 letters) 9= Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism - "False opposition to the withdrawl of State support from a church" or "Extreme opposition to the withdrawl of State supported church" (34 letters) 8. Hepaticocholangiocholecystentersotomies - "Gall Bladder surgery" (39 letters) 7. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - "A lung disease" (45 letters) 6. Asseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary - "Structure of the human body" (51 letters) 5. Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic - "Spa waters at Bath, England" (52 letters) 4....http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/12/crrl/Post.htm#541265Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:48:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:541265joanilizaAre those even words not sentences... Actually, the longest word i know is Pneumonoultramicroscopicslilcovolcanokoniosis...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/12/crrl/Post.htm#536034Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:23:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:536034anonymousthe 2 longest words i kno is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and electrophotomicrographically and the first word means or is an/a dieasehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorldEnglish-Language/2/vbhgx/Post.htm#495822Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:03:15 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:495822anonymoussorrt to burst ur bubble but i have found one longer than the 3 of those words combined look it up some time its about 187,000 letters long have a look for ithttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestEnglishWords/2/bdwgj/Post.htm#491216Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:20:33 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:491216anonymousWords What is the longest English word containing no letter more than once? There are two 15-letter words that we know of: uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics . What is the longest English word? 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...http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#480779Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:46:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:480779anonymouswell 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/LongestWordEverDictionary/9/crrl/Post.htm#441162Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:42:18 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:441162anonymous<BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>Anonymous wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4"><font size="-1">There is a tie for longest words that can be spelled using unique chemical symbols: “HYPErCoAgULaBiLiTiEs” and “HYPErCoNScIOUSnEsSeS”</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE> NONRePReSeNTaTiONAlISm ThErMoPHoSPHoReSCeNCe OVErSUPErSTiTiOUSNeSShttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/9/crrl/Post.htm#441160Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:38:54 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:441160anonymous<BLOCKQUOTE><table width="85%"><tr><td class="txt4"><img src="/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>Anonymous wrote:</strong></td></tr><tr><td class="quoteTable"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="100%" valign="top" class="txt4">There are two words that are the longest and a letter is not repeated are Uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics<br></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE> hydropneumaticshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/8/crrl/Post.htm#431665Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:45:21 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:431665anonymousThere are two words that are the longest and a letter is not repeated are Uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphicshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorldEnglish-Language/vbhgx/post.htm#424642Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:01:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:424642anonymousi just said that to someone and their response was, "Diseases are not words, plus it's not in English; it's in Latin." ....I don't know Latin, I know English...are all words influenced by other languages considered to be "not English"...I thought English just cherry-picked what it wanted from older languages in the first place...?http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorldEnglish-Language/vbhgx/post.htm#341315Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:22:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341315jhumjhumI think this topic has been discussed several times in this forum The longest word in the world Longestword in the English dictionary Worlds longest words and nameshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWorldEnglish-Language/vbhgx/post.htmTue, 20 Mar 2007 04:02:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:341136anonymousI saw a very long thread about this topic, and I wanted to set the record completely straight. You will notice that I mentioned ENGLISH LANGUAGE in the subject. Unless someone can give us a reliable definition for the extremely long finnish word I believe we should refrain from discussing it. The main debate appears to be whether PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS is a legitimate word, as it was coined simply to make a new longest word but has a real definition. Many have said that FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION is the longest REAL word, because of previously stated complication with PNEU..., which is described as "factitious", meaning artificial. However, it appears in four...http://www.englishforums.com/English/NoVowels/7/bplp/Post.htm#332801Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:11:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:332801philipMy take on "y" being a vowel or not. In words like way, bay, sway, buy, etc., 'y' is not a vowel.....it is merely an addition to help make the pronunciation of the vowel preceding. If the 'y' in 'rhythm (which has a definite, specific vowel sound attached to it) is not a vowel, are you telling me that the 'y' in 'sky' is not a vowel? This is what I learned in school about 55 years ago....mayhaps things have changed. But I do know the longest word in the English language with only one vowel: The sound when a man drives his car off the rim of the Grand Canyon (craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...) OR (shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....).http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/7/crrl/Post.htm#332515Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:59:01 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:332515anonymousThere is a tie for longest words that can be spelled using unique chemical symbols: “HYPErCoAgULaBiLiTiEs” and “HYPErCoNScIOUSnEsSeS”http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEnglishDictionary/4/bhwcz/Post.htm#309170Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:06:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:309170marvin a.Mr.Dictionary wrote: The longest words in the Oxford English Dictionary are Antidisestablishmentarianism, Floccinaucinihilipilification, and my favorite Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Pronunsiation: Anti dis establishment arianism Flocci nauci ni hilip ilification pneumo ultra microscopic silico volcano con iosis See this from Wikipedia: However, the more serious problem is that the word was originally intended as a hoax: In Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics , in several separate articles (May 1985, pp. 95-96; November 1986, pp. 205-206; May 1987, p. 82; November 1989, p. 205 ), researchers discovered that the word was invented in 1935http://www.englishforums.com/English/WordsWithoutVowels/3/bqvmv/Post.htm#306816Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:34:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:306816anonymoushi i am nitin patil. i want list words of without vowels(longest word)http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEnglishDictionary/3/bhwcz/Post.htm#303247Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:50:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:303247anonymousare u people completely stupid? i mean i hate to be rude but all those words from diseases are NOT in the english dictionary... they are in dictionaries of medical terms and if u knew anything about english u'd know that. anyways so i agree with another persons antidishimbel.... whatever that word was but i thought the longest word in the ENGLISH dictionary was (i will try to spell it the way it is pronounced but i know the actual word is much much longer) ON-O-MONO-PIA anyways... there's my 2 centshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/6/crrl/Post.htm#285934Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:26:01 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285934anonymousWOW YOU ARE REALLY SMART MISTER Chris wrote: The longest words in the English language without a repeated letter are: uncopyrightable and dermatoglyphics both with 15 letters!http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/12/vzkn/Post.htm#274767Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:52:41 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:274767mister micawberKatelynn, there is no definite answer to this question, as should be obvious from this thread. It is not worth worrying about. Your literary success depends more on how many words you can use effectively, not on whether you know the longest one-- which you will never use anyway!http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/12/vzkn/Post.htm#269009Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:11:56 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:269009anonymousThis word is Finnish. In the Finnish language, instead of adding adjectives and adverbs to describe words, they use a series of compound words. So, this is possibly a real word, but we'd need someone fluent in Finnish to find out.http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/11/vzkn/Post.htm#264290Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:35:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:264290anonymoushttp://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html The guy who you all tought was typing a bunch of jibberish, it is actually a word. It is a long word. I quote: " 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." that is what the word means. It is a chemical word, because majority of chemical names are confusing and long. But it is a real word, and one of the longest words in the world. Here ya' go: Two chemical terms (3,641 and 1,913 letters long) have appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records . They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical...http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/11/vzkn/Post.htm#262419Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:48:58 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:262419anonymousThe longest word is in fact FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION @ 29 letters since pneumonolutramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis @ 45 letters was created solely for the purpose of the longest word in the English language. Proteins can have additional amino-acids added to make longer words, so therefore, they cannot be legit words. They are in the sense "add-ons."http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/10/vzkn/Post.htm#245252Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:11:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:245252hillisWho can help me????? My teacher give me a list which have about 5000 word .she ask me to write an article use this 5000 words ,each word must be use at least once .and total words of the article is below 15000. It's so difficult for me .I am a chinese ,who want to help me ,please contact me ,email is hillis@163.com I will send you the list which include the 5000 words.http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/9/vzkn/Post.htm#223253Sun, 07 May 2006 11:24:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:223253anonymousthat's not the longest word because it isn't really all one word. Things in it mean different things therefore it cannot all be one word, each string is also repeated in different variations throughout. So, really it is jus a long paragraph with the same words repeated over.http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/9/vzkn/Post.htm#222572Fri, 05 May 2006 04:19:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:222572anonymousBut that word can be broken up in to like two root words, alot of suffixes and alot of prefixes. All of this debating is really confusing!http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/8/vzkn/Post.htm#214697Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:13:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:214697anonymouswow... I hope you people realize the longest word is scientific. They can stretch over 1 million letters long. Look it up on wikipedia. ....The elements all in 1 compound are written in 1 word. Floccinaucinihilipilification is considered the longest non-technical word though. LONG WORDS: Antidisestablishmentarianism pneumonoultramicroscompicsilicovolcanoconiosis ethylenediaminetetraacetates oxyphenbutazone honorificabilitudinitatibus Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupkaiwhenuakitanatahu Cool words- Euouae-most consecutive vowels, longest word with only vowels Twyndyllyngs-longest word without common vowels scraunched-longest single syllable word strengths-longest single...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEnglishDictionary/3/bhwcz/Post.htm#208599Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:41:31 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:208599mr.dictionaryThe longest words in the Oxford English Dictionary are Antidisestablishmentarianism, Floccinaucinihilipilification, and my favorite Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Pronunsiation: Anti dis establishment arianism Flocci nauci ni hilip ilification pneumo ultra microscopic silico volcano con iosishttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/7/vzkn/Post.htm#201650Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:17:08 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:201650anonymoushey hey hey, the ongest word in the world is ...................................................... Do you remember – when you were a child – learning (then gleefully reciting) what you thought was the longest word in the English language? Was it ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM ? Or the similarly long SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS ? There are longer ones... However, there is no easy answer that we can give when our visitors ask us for the longest word in the English language. Most very long words only occur in one or two dictionaries, and often they are debatably not words at all. For example, ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM has possibly never...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HeresAPunJokeForU/cgnzc/post.htmFri, 24 Feb 2006 03:34:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:200364benjammin201) If a tree has no money then why does a bank have no branches? 2) 2 fish hit a wall in the river and one said to the other DAM!!! 3) Deja Moo: the feeling that u have heard this bull before I'll text more jokes(PUNS) later....sizeeya later Forum: Words, puns, jokes and prepositions Posted: Apr 16, 10:20 AM Post Subject: Re: longest word Post author: Pia ok but i promise i'll only PUNish you once a day ! ooooops sorry !http://www.englishforums.com/English/ImSearchingLongestEnglishWord/2/qvxk/Post.htm#197290Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:00:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:197290anonymousi 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/TheLongestWordWorld/6/vzkn/Post.htm#189457Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:18:22 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:189457anonymousYes Friend -------- I know longest word in the world ------ that is " I " u can add many no.of words with it many meanings so try it and find it - a longest wordhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/5/vzkn/Post.htm#179018Wed, 04 Jan 2006 18:53:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:179018anonymousCheck out this link: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_longest.html I saw longer words on a TV programme, shame I can't remember any, but some of those words are quite long. 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' is a word in the English dictionary! I saw longer words on a TV programme, shame I can't remember any, but some of those words are quite long. Also: 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch', a town in Wales; 'pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis', a lung disease; T he longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill. ( http://www.oma.org.uk/Library_Links/Words.htm ) I've...http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEverDictionary/5/crrl/Post.htm#167391Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:51:29 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:167391anonymousHey dude! Correction to be made.......... the longest word in English is : FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION with 29 letters!!! ( I am sure of the letters but not of the spelling! Plz check it out!) I would like to thank the pal who told us about the 2 words with no repeated letters cause I gotta prepare an English Quiz for the Club Activity in our class on Wednesday! So thx a billion pal!!!!!!!!!!) GTG BYEEEEEE GUYS!http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheLongestWordWorld/4/vzkn/Post.htm#159895Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:54:57 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:159895anonymoushi joe here, i just wanted to add that the longest word with only one syllable is "screeched" i dont remember where i found it, just wanted to make more arguments about pointless things and words to go and read i mean... thnxhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordWithoutVowels/bbjkk/post.htm#150890Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:39:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:150890anonymousi think that there can't be a word without a vowel unless we make up one. What about words with silent vowels such as: __recieve the I and Ein it are silent what if we made it without the vowels. It would look like receve right? so why don,t we take all the vowels out and say it the same.http://www.englishforums.com/English/LongestWordEnglishDictionary/bhwcz/post.htm#135376Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:29:47 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:135376zorknumberActually ive found that the longest word is made up of over 207,000 letters. It represents the name for mitochondrial disease. Of cource im not going to post it due to the fact that it is so long, plus it is really hard to find someone that posts a word that long. Anyways, for kyyhkyslakkahillotaatelipalmusunnuntaikävelykatujuhlakoristehedelmäkaramellimassatuotevalvontalaitteisto- testauslaboratoriokäyttökertatulitikkuviinapiilohomokaasulasersädehoitokotikaljakimblemestaruussarjakuva- ristikkokilpajuoksuhiekka-aavikkoluonto-ohjelmauusintavaalikokousedustusmeno-paluuruuhkabussivuoropysäköinti- sakkolihakoukkuselkänahkavyöruusukasvimaamunajuustomaitorasvaimunestepinta-alahuulipunakampelaverkkomahalasku-...