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Discussion between Sen. Moynihan and Sen. Byrd "Mr. President, may I say to the distinguished Senator from New York, I used that word on the Senate floor myself 2 or 3 years ago. I cannot remember just when or what the occasion was, but I used it on that occasion to indicate that whatever it was I
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has noted that most of the longest English words are not likely to occur in general text, meaning non-technical present-day text seen by casual readers, in which the author did not specifically intend to use an unusually long word. According to Eckler, the longest words likely to be encountered in
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Coined around 1935 to be the longest word; press reports on puzzle league members legitimized it somewhat. First appeared in the MWNID supplement, 1939. Today OED and several others list it, but citations are almost always as "longest word". More detail at
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From about 1975 to 1985, the recordholder was Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus
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in 1964 and 1966. In 1965, the Chemical Abstracts Service overhauled its naming system and started discouraging excessively long names. In 2011, a dictionary broke this record with a 1909-letter word describing the
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may be arbitrarily long, and the addition of suffixes and prefixes may extend the length of words to create grammatically correct but unused or novel words. Different dictionaries include and omit different words.
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is typed entirely with the index finger, and so the longest one-fingered word on the Dvorak keyboard. There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and so the longest "right-handed" word is
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defined in reference to the song title. The attributed meaning is "a word that you say when you don't know what to say." The idea and invention of the word is credited to songwriters
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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.
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Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu
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Taumata­whakatangihanga­koauau­o­tamatea­turi­pukaka­piki­maunga­horo­nuku­pokai­whenua­ki­tana­tahu
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The English language permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as
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was challenged by parents Lasse Diding and Elisabeth Hallin, who proposed the given name "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116" for their child (pronounced
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was discussing it was something like a mere trifle or nothing really being of moment." Congressional Record June 17, 1991, p. S7887, and at the White House by
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musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the "word" itself is simply a
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A computer study of over a million samples of normal English prose found that the longest word one is likely to encounter on an everyday basis is
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Donau­dampf­schiffahrts­elektrizitĂ€ten­haupt­betriebs­werk­bau­unter­beamten­gesellschaft
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Llan­fair­pwll­gwyn­gyll­gogery­chwyrn­drob­wlll­lanty­silio­gogo­goch
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Llan­fair­pwll­gwyn­gyll­gogery­chwyrn­drob­wlll­lanty­silio­gogo­goch
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After 1985 Guinness briefly awarded the record to a newborn girl with a longer name. The category was removed shortly afterward.
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Contrived coinage to make it the longest word; technical, but only mentioned and never actually used in communication
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is the longest accepted binomial name for any animal, or any organism visible with the naked eye. It is a species of
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Longest known word overall by magnitudes. Attempts to say the entire word have taken two to three and a half hours.
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Paux et al. (2008) Science, Vol. 322 (5898) 101–104. A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B
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nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to the 189,819-letter chemical name
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is among the few other words directly attested in OED with single occurrences of all six vowels (counting
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In recent times its usage has been recorded in the proceedings of the United States Senate by Senator
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The longest non-contrived place name in the United Kingdom which is a single non-hyphenated word is
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is the longest accepted binomial name for an organism. It is a bacterium found in soil collected at
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Char­gogga­gogg­man­chau­ggagogg­chau­buna­gunga­maugg
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Opinions Rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: Opinions 105 to 114
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Rudi; Safar, Jan; Simkova, Hana; Dolezel, Jaroslav; Bernard, Michel; Feuillet, Catherine (2008).
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Gammara­canthus­kyto­dermo­gammarus lori­cato­baica­lensis
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Technical; not in dictionary; whether this should actually be considered a word is disputed
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Long birth names are often coined in protest of naming laws or for other personal reasons.
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Para­stratio­sphe­com­yia stratio­sphe­com­yioi­des
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The longest words typable with only the left hand using conventional hand placement on a
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Aequeo­salino­calcalino­ceraceo­aluminoso­cupreo­vitriolic
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construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes
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A number of scientific naming schemes can be used to generate arbitrarily long words.
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consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase "seculorum Amen" at the end of the
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of a word may also be understood in multiple ways. Most commonly, length is based on
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put these creations into the mouth of the phrenologist Mr. Cranium in his 1816 book
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The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters:
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The longest words recorded in OED with each vowel only once, and in order, are
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The longest officially recognized place name in an English-speaking country is
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is the longest single-word country name in English, and the second-longest is
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The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter
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is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel letter.
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Dysart, Dudley, Harcourt, Guilford, Harburn, Bruton, Havelock, Eyre and Clyde
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was created from a revision of this article dated 8 January 2011
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Since the bottom row contains no vowels, no standard words can be formed.
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developed an open-ended system for naming powers of 10, in which one
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particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as
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made up nine 100-letter words plus one 101-letter word in his novel
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The longest word typable by alternating left and right hands is
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by a major author, the longest word ever to appear in literature
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Donald McFarlan; Norris Dewar McWhirter; David A. Boeh (1989).
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What is the longest English word? - Oxford Dictionaries Online
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history. The longest single-word town names in the U.S. are
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The longest place name in the United States (45 letters) is
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Unclear – generally understood as a positive adjective or a
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Ma­mungku­kumpu­rang­kunt­junya
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The longest non-technical word in major dictionaries is
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The longest official geographical name in Australia is
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made mention of it in her semi-autobiographical novel
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methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia – Long words
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flocci­nauci­nihili­pili­fication
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Not all dictionaries accept it due to lack of usage.
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Words with certain characteristics of notable length
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List of the longest English words with one syllable
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Nine-letter words include 796:Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus) 655:iso . . . serine 91: 85:(the spoken language) and the number of 1901:"Cool, Strange, and Interesting Facts," 1661: 1293:in these cases would still be a vowel.) 644:thymidyl . . .  468:by stringing together its ingredients: 381:Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 1735:A Student's Dictionary & Gazetteer 1181:(10 letters) appear to be the longest 2532:. Theworldofstuff.com. 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Index

Longest English words
longest word
English
word
the language's roots
coinage
construction
place names
technical terms
orthography
letters
phonology
phonemes
methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl...isoleucine
titin
methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl...serine
E. coli
TrpA
P0A877
lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano...pterygon
coined
nonce word
Ancient Greek
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
silicosis
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
nonsense word
Mary Poppins film
musical
pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

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