Longest word definition

• What is the longest word and what is its definition?

  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.

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• What are the shortest and longest words used?

  What are the shortest and longest words used? In English, the shortest words are four letters long. In some other languages, we use words of only two characters. The longest words are 17-18 letters - for example, "environmentalists" and "unenthusiastically". The longest word in any language so far is in Portuguese - 'caracteristicamente'.

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• What is the Hardest Word in English?

  When it comes to hard-to-pronounce words, faux is almost always at the top of the list. This word, which means "not real or genuine," looks like it should rhyme with aux. However, it instead rhymes with bow . Ignominious

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• The Longest Word - Butler University

  The Longest Word . What is the longest English word? That . is a question which has . always . intrigued people interested . in . words. For a variety of peculiar reasons, it has, until recently, not been possible to give a simple, dear-cut answer. Should we restrict ourselves to "dictionary" words?

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• [PDF File]Below is the full 189,819-lettered word for 'titin' - KIAH

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  Below is the full 189,819-lettered word for 'titin': Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminylleuc

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• PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS - Butler University

  PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is generally regarded as “the longest word in the dictionary”, at 45 letters. To be more specific, it appears in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, the Unabridged Merriam-Webster website, and the Oxford English Dictionary.

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• The Longest Dictionary Words

  I 82. THE . LONGEST DICTIONARY WORDS. A. ROSS ECKLER Morristown, New Jersey In Language on Vacation (Scribner . l . s, 1965), Dmitri Borgmann devote s several page s to a survey of the longe st words in the English

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• WHAT IS THE LONGEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE? AND ... - SSRN

  From this paper, it is clear that English has the longest word of any language. A word in English was constructed based on a word in Sanskrit. This word has 865 characters. It is arguably the case that English has a word length at least twice that in any other language.

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• Long Words In The OED - Butler University

  dictionary, most likely for some other word, and therefore difficult to find and probably having no clearly—given definition?" " Does it make any difference?" ' Sure does! If you stick with words that are main entries—boldface, correct alphabetical position, a proper definition—then the longest word in the OED is the 45—1etter specimen...

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