<p>here's mine which I've read in an MSN article.......it's although medical related word. I simply loved that word (for no reason.....) and remembered it thoroughly(I've NO idea how to pronounce that word!), Okay, here u go:-</p>
<p>*hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
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now throw urs!</p>
<p>...yeah... as much as fun as this thread sounds I'll have to pass</p>
<p>pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis</p>
<p>^ditto .</p>
<p>does it count as a word when all it is is a bunch of prefixes?</p>
<p>Antidisestablishmentarianism.</p>
<p>Floccinaucinihilipilification - I learned how to spell that word last year, and it just stuck in my head.</p>
<p>hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia</p>
<p>What is that? A medical condition? Hahaha</p>
<p>das Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz</p>
<p>Translation: beef labeling regulation & delegation of supervision law</p>
<p>uhhh... we germans are weird. ;)</p>
<p>single-word oxymoron</p>
<p>antisesquipedalian</p>
<p>Well, there is a protein called Titin that is associated with striated muscle formation. It has 189,819 letters and it's chemical formula is C132983 H211861 N36149 O40883 S693. It would require 19 consecutive posts of 10,000 characters each to post its expanded chemical name. :D</p>
<p>^^^ That's great.... But technically, that wouldn't be a word. Hah.</p>
<p>"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"
You stole mine =(</p>
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hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia</p>
<p>What is that? A medical condition? Hahaha
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<p>If I'm not mistaken, 'tis the fear of long words.</p>
<p>pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis</p>
<p>^Learned that word in 4th grade.</p>
<h1>7 kunfuzed101: yeah, it's the fear of long word (ironic isn't it?!)</h1>
<h1>8 chriscap: As I was browsing the net a moment b4 I actually found even a longer German word!</h1>
<h1>10 Chaos: Guess what, DNA has some 200000 letters (no one has ever tried to write the whole thing though! :D)</h1>
<h1>13 virtuoso_735: how in the world can u learn THAT world in 4th grade? Was the world that dull for u back then? (lol!)</h1>
<p>Now, I wikipedied and saw some interesting long words, and I just felt like to summarize all the longest words known: :D (Down below, I'm putting infos from wikipedia)</p>
<p>Okay, "The longest word in any major English language dictionary is pneumono<em>ultra</em>micro<em>scopic</em>silico<em>volcano</em>coniosis, a 45-letter word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of fine silica dust. Research has discovered that this word was originally intended as a hoax."</p>
<p>"The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)."</p>
<p>"The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is flocci<em>nauci</em>nihili<em>pili</em>fication at 29 letters. Consisting of a series of Latin words meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless," its usage has been recorded as far back as 1741"</p>
<p>Other notable long words:</p>
<p>Anti<em>dis</em>establishment*arianism (a nineteenth century movement in England opposed to the separation of church and state) at 28 letters is still in colloquial currency for being one of the longest words in the English language.</p>
<p>The longest word which appears in William Shakespeare's works is the 27-letter honorific<em>abilitud</em>initatibus, appearing in Love's Labour's Lost. This is arguably an English word (rather than Latin), only because it was Shakespeare who used it.</p>
<p>the longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu (85 letters) which is a hill in New Zealand.</p>
<p>The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, a lake in Webster, Massachusetts. It means "Englishmen at Manchaug at the Fishing Place at the Boundary" and is sometimes facetiously translated as "you fish your side of the water, I fish my side of the water, nobody fishes the middle"</p>
<p>Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizit?tenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (longest published word in German) (does anybody care/dare to read that whole crap! lol!)</p>
<p>Now, from some other sites:- (U know like, I just wanted to compile the longest words, just for fun :D)</p>
<p>The longest word to appear in standard English dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.</p>
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- 1,185 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)</p>
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- 1,913 (chem. in Mrs Byrne's Dict. See appendix 2)</p>
<p><a href="45">B</a> PNEUMONO<em>ULTRA</em>MICRO<em>SCOPIC</em>SILICO<em>VOLCANO</em>CONIOSIS ** I guess this is the longest English word found in the English dictionary (excluding the chemical names which I'd rather call as terms rather than words!)</p>
<p><a href="http://users.tkk.fi/%7Ejpakkane/sana.html%5B/url%5D">http://users.tkk.fi/~jpakkane/sana.html</a> --this is the link where a man (or two?) claim to have made the longest word (in Finnish) in the world (again, no chemical name!) </p>
<p>(now, I wanted to continue since there are some more 'interesting' (!) stuffs, but got too tired and settling w/ these!)</p>
<p>Actually, I think I learned pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis in 4th grade, too! My teacher (after I told her I learned it) put it on my next spelling test. I got two letters wrong, I think. Very disappointing.</p>
<p>It's so funny to try and pronounce that pneumo word.</p>
<p>I'm just curious to know, why would a 4th grader (no matter how smart that boy/girl is!) want to learn that pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis word? Like, for WHAT reason exactly?!</p>