Worlds Longest words

**Worlds Longest words ::eek: **

PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­KONIOSIS - 45 letters
meaning :-a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

HEPATICO­CHOLANGIO­CHOLECYST­ENTERO­STOMIES - **37 letters
**meaning :- a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.

SUPER­CALI­FRAGI­LISTIC­EXPI­ALI­DOCIOUS - **34 letters
**meaning :- song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.

HIPPOPOTO­MONSTRO­SESQUIPED­AL­IAN - **30 letters
**meaning :- pertaining to a very long word.
From Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words

FLOCCI­NAUCINI­HILIPIL­IFICATION -**29 letters
**meaning:-an estimation of something as worthless

ANTI­DIS­ESTABLISH­MENT­ARIAN­ISM **- 28 letters
**meaning :- the belief which opposes removing the tie between church and state.

HONORI­FICABILI­TUDINI­TATIBUS - **27 letters
**meaning: - honorableness.

ELECTRO­ENCEPHALO­GRAPHICALLY - **27 letters
**meaning:- The longest unhyphenated word in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (10th Ed.), joint with ethylene­diamine­tetraacetate

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 They were withdrawn because they have never been used by chemists, and there is no theoretical limit to the length of possible legitimate chemical terms.

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meaning - 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.

I hope u enjoyed this!! Amazing how long words can be… :eek:

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its really difficult to read because of the &shy after every word

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the worlds longest word is

SMILES

because there is a mile between the first and last letter

Its true a five year old told me that

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yeah, that's true..

why is there a &shy...?

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sorry........... was unable to edit the thing again :(

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learn to cut and paste properly and remove the &shy

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Parayamondiya Vikarama Sighe = Srilankan cricket player.:chai:

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:O :O :O

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thats so cute

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Well here goes for some of them at least:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianism

Floccinaucinihilipilification

Antidisestablishmentarianism