Longest word you know?

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GoldenBear

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I'm reading here and came across this 20-letter word: antiauthoritarianism.

Who can provide me with something longer?
 
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CvAgent

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FlexibleSigmoutiscope
This is way spelled wrong- and also 2 words so I am cheating and tired

Go AWAY?
 
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3615buck

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Anticonstitutionnellement (25 letters)
The longest French word, it means "unconstitutionally"

Hottentotententententoonstelling (32 letters)
The longest Dutch word, it means "exhibition of Hottentots' tents"
 
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loogie

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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanicconiosis

Floccipoccinihilipilification

antidisestablishmentarianism
 
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GoldenBear

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I believe the correct spelling loogie, is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis.

You've been disqualified :)
 
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GoldenBear

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I'm sorry 8ball, the judges won't accept your word.

So that would make Valhalla in first, and buck is gone too as we're only doing english words..
 
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<< No proper names VE >>



Why is that not a proper name?
Do a search on it and you will find out that there ARE a city named that in England.
 
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3615buck

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That's not fair GoldenBear, nowhere you said that the words had to be in English, the subject of your topic was &quot;Longest word you know&quot; not &quot;Longest English word you know&quot;. I want a recount !!! :D
 
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Moonbeam

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I just read that the longest word in the English language is the word from our sponsor.
 
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Gustavus

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If you allow chemical names -- which are English words -- there is the 84 letter name for the dye &quot;Congo red&quot;. I may try to scan it in tomorrow, but I certainly can't type it without making a mistake. A more conventional word is the name for the tenth cranial nerve which is 64 letters in length -- but for obvious reasons commonly just called the vagus nerve. There is a Swedish word that among word gamers is reputed to be the longest word in any language -- over 100 letters as I recall, but I will have to search for it. The 64 letter name of the tenth cranial nerve and the 84 letter chemical name for Congo red I have in hand but am unwilling to try to type.

A common -- that is to say it gets used in conversation occasionally -- 23 letter word is ANTHROPOMORPHOLOGICALLY. I have never heard anyone use it, but Websters has the 25 letter PHILOSOPHICOPSYCHOLOGICAL which I believe is the record in that dictionary.

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The vagus nerve's proper name is:

AURICULOLARYNGOPHARYNGOESOPHAGOTRACHEOPULMONOCARDIOGASTROHEPATIC

which is easier to pronounce if hyphenated at each functional break,

AURICULO-LARYNGO-PHARYNGO-ESOPHAGO-TRACHEO-PULMONO-CARDIO-GASTRO-HEPATIC

 
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va&eth;lahei&eth;avegavinnulyklakippuhringur

means,
va&eth;lahei&eth;a (a place in iceland)
vegavinnu (road work)
lyklakippu (keychain)
hringur (ring)

cant remember it correctly but it could have have more words in it.
 
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i remember from my overly informative english prof that the longest official word (not disease, proper noun, unique name, etc..) meant the overuse of long words. I'm glad i remember the definition, but i'll be damned if i can think of the word! Anyone know what i'm talking about? or is it just 5 am?
 
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