what is the longest word in the dictionary and why
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Worldâs Longest Word Takes 213 Minutes To Say (VIDEO) The longest regular word to appear in the dictionary -- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis -- is only a puny 45 letters in length, Unexplained-Mysteries.com reported, adding that some lexicographers aren't sure whether the name of a chemical actually qualifies as a word.
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Do I Know This ? The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left... What is the longest word that is spelled the same way forwards and backwards The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat....
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Longest Words This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741.
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- glutaminyl=C5H9N2O2 valyl=(CH3)2CHCH(NH2)CO} Therefore one strand of DNA could be lengthened out to an infinite amount of letters long. The current longest accepted word in English dictionaries (above) is questioned also being as that it was coined by a man in 1935 simply for the purpose of creating a new longest word.
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- What is the longest word in English? - Duration: 1:49. Oxford Dictionaries 344,772 views
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Top 10 Longest Words in the English Language This 27-letter word coined by Shakespeare, in his comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is a testament to the Bard’s own intralexiconic skills. Meaning “the state of being able to achieve honors,” the word is the longest one in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels (Take a look for yourself….yep.).
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Longest word in English The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is Cotton­shope­burn­foot (19 letters) and the longest which is hyphenated is Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe (29 characters).
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- The longest technical word in English is the scientific name for the protein titin, at 189,819 letters. Titin is the largest known polypeptide in the human body, composed of 34,350 amino acids.
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Longest 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.
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á¼©Î»Î»Î·Î½Î¹ÏÏÎµÏÎºÎ¿Î½ÏÎ¿Ï What is the longest word of Sanskrit? In the post on the longest words of Greek, I mentioned the fact that Sanskrit, as reported in the Guinness Book of Records, has produced a word over twice as long as Aristophanes' monsterpiece.
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The longest words in English: do you know what they mean? The longest word in German – Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, meaning the law concerning the delegation of duties for the supervision of cattle marking and the labelling of beef – has just been dumped from the dictionary for being no longer necessary. Don't panic, though. We have plenty of long words of our own.
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- 6. By virtue of having one more letter than antidisestablishmentarianism, this is the longest non-technical English word. A mash up of five Latin roots, it refers to the act of describing something as having little or no value.
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Longest word in English The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.he word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, and has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim.
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What's the Longest Word in the World? Here are 12 of Them, By Category 11. and 12. The longest words to appear in a major dictionary comprised entirely of either vowels or consonants. A Cwtch, or crwth, is from the Welsh word for a hiding place. Euouae, a medieval musical term, is technically a mnemonic, but has been accepted as a word in itself.
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re: Longest Word Ever In The Dictionary page 5 Anonymous: GuestThe longest word in the dictionary containing no letter more than once is smiley.. (There is a mile between the first and last letter.) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
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Longest word in English Longest word in English. The identity of the longest word in English depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared.
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- What is the longest word in any language in the world? Greek - Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphe … traganopterygon Or the chemical name which you will find at this website: http://luminaryuprise.wikidot.com/longest-word
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What Is the Longest Word? What's a wordsmith to do? If you're wondering what the longest words you might actually encounter in regular English text are, those words include uncharacteristically (20 letters), deinstitutionalization (22 letters)and counterrevolutionaries (also 22 letters).
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Longest Words (30) HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN = pertaining to a very long word. From Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words. (29) FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless. This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741.
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"What is the longest ""symmetrical"" word (it's spelled backward the same as forward)?" Best Answer: The longest English single-word palindrome in common use is redivider. In the Oxford English Dictionary, tattarrattat (coined by James Joyce) is the longest palindromic word. Single-word palindromes are equally interesting.
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What Is the Longest Word? The longest word that appears in a major English dictionary is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Found in the Oxford English Dictionary, it's the name of a lung disease. Many people don't count it either, though, since it was created to win a puzzle contest in 1935.
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What is the hardest word to spell in the english language? The longest word ever to appear in a non-technical dictionary of English is.. The real longest official word if you include (chemical names) is 1,913 letters. The term for the formula C(1289)H(2051)N(343)O(375)S(8). It'd be pretty hard to spell correctly...
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Do I Know This ? 1. stewardesses is the longest word typed only with the left hand because all the letters are on the left side of the typical English keyboard. 3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, purple.
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Longest Word In The English Language? Hmm.. Not bad... BUT I can beat that with a word found in certain dictionaries - note: neither in Oxford English nor have I found it in dictionary.com .... ready for it. Drum Roll!!!!!!! floccinauccinihilipilification (a whopping 30 letters)
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Longest word in English Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary does not contain antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary is electroencephalographically (27 letters).
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- The farthest planet from the sun used to be Pluto. Pluto is now considered to be a dwarf planet, not a planet. When Pluto was a planet, its orbit would sometimes take it close…r to the sun than Neptune, making the Neptune the farthest planet from the sun for that period of time.