Longest word you know?

[BlueScreenVW]

Gustavus: When I think about it, shouldn't somebody try to make up a shorter name for nervus vestibulocochlearis, too..?

Edit: By the way, this is a long (although way <100 letters) word I saw in a swedish Donald Duck magazine: kontrabasfiolfodralmakarm&auml;starl&auml;rling.

 

[LordMaul]

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That is a word for a 1,913-letter chemical name for the tryptophan synthetase A protein.

No one will beat that one.

 

[chess9]

Maybe is the longest word.

Just ask my 12 year old daughter!

 

[SendTrash]

longest word?...
my genome sequence?

 

[nickdakick]

Just to add even more international flair:

Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapit&auml;nsm&uuml;tzenschild

German

 

[jyrixx]

well, my last name is 12 letters... that's pretty long...

and i don't feel like thinking of a bigger word... so that'll have to do.

 

[Elledan]

In English:

PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS

> http://www.triviastic.com/items/19.html

Longest medical word:

hepatococholangiocholecystenterostomies

> http://www.mtdaily.com/mentors/pandora/messages4/7609.html

Italian:

Precipitevolissimevolmente

> http://www.mission1.net/stjul/p99-2a.htm

 

[thraashman]

Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu it's the name of a hill in New Zealand. And yes I know it's a proper name, but it's the longest one I know.

 

[VoodooExtreme]

Worlds longest hyperlink?
Longest stuff

 

[yakko]

Smiles.

There is a mile between the first S and the last S.

 

[BurnItDwn]

names are not words ... they are names ... medical terms are not really standard words either ... only medical professionals use those terms ... and they always use acronyms anyhow ..

 

[NoreagaCNN]

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

-Nore

 

[Dougster]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is in Wales, not England! Does it not have a certain Celtic twang to it? Did it look like an English word?

I've been there and I'll tell you that the sign at the railway station is pretty amusing, and a bit of a local tourist attraction too.

 

[cxim]

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh, that's good !

Just heard it last night

 

[eakers]

antidisestablishmentarnism

longest one in the english language or so im told

*kat. <-- counted 27 letters

 

[Kosugi]

How about this one...

Lightyear.

Is there anything longer than that? oh sure.. 2 lightyears!