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What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Sirniyeh(m): 7:37pm On Nov 13, 2012 |
Dear Nairalanders, Have you ever thought of what the answer could be? What is the longest word in the dictionary? Not the word with affixes! I mean no prefix . Lets educate ourselves |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Thekeeper(m): 1:25am On Nov 14, 2012 |
Interdenominationalism. .:-D |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Ariyke: 9:34am On Nov 14, 2012 |
The_keeper: Interdenominationalism. .:-DSeconded |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Sirniyeh(m): 6:13pm On Nov 14, 2012 |
You are correct. You've won N5k. Congratulation 1 Like |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Thekeeper(m): 8:55pm On Nov 14, 2012 |
Sirniyeh i neva c d 5k o. . .abeg make we chat 4 2go naa.i'v waited since 4eva |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Florena(f): 11:18pm On Nov 14, 2012 |
D longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, its a 45 letter word, i bet it wit anyone i'm correct |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Sirniyeh(m): 4:08pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Florena: D longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, its a 45 letter word, i bet it wit anyone i'm correct. Wow, u don scatter my oblogata. Shei! For where you see ur own dictionary? Oh, sorry. Na dictionary of Okotie from babylon. Na now i know say u be okotie member |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Optimisticgondy(m): 4:10pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Sirniyeh:Sir, I sent you an email. Please reply ASAP. |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Florena(f): 4:17pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Sirniyeh:no be ur fault i knw say u no go school, why nt search 4 d meanin on google.. But 2 help u out it is d name of a virus and mind u i've known dis since i was in primary school |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Sirniyeh(m): 8:19pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Florena:. You wey be newcomer for nairaland con dey make mouth. Pikin welcome. You dey call me ur fathet say i no go school. Well, i no go but i don send u go. Se na to abuse ur papa with your grammer na in wey then teach u for school. . |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Florena(f): 8:36pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Sirniyeh:i no blame u, small time nw una go talk say na abuse person dey com do 4 naira land, no be u start am.... I beg if u no say u wan may ur children honour u anywhere, 4 ur life no ever mention person papa again someone provides answer 2 a question instead of u 2 check if right or wrong, u trouble dat ur useless mind con transfer lunatic thoughts 2 ur brain wey send a stupid message 2 ur fingers and type an unreasonable comment u better watch ur mouth because na small word u go just tell someone and dey wil ruin ur life i bet u dnt ave a father and if u do, he doesn't mean anytin 2 u......pity him |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Nobody: 8:49pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Florena: D longest word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, its a 45 letter word, i bet it wit anyone i'm correctLmao. Why bet? Wait till u see ds. I bet that's not d longest word ever. |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Florena(f): 8:52pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
candygosh:truly, there re some other words but this is d longest in d major didctionaries most other words re scientific |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Nobody: 9:01pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
@op you should have said what's the longest word in the english dictionary. Gosh, there are lots of dico now, english, french, german, spanish, etc. Well below are some pretty long words. 1. Honorificabilitudinita - Tibus (27 letters) The word occurs in Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, and means "with honorablenesses." 2. Antidisestablishmentarianism(28 letters) The word means, according Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, "a doctrine of opposition to disestablishment (withdrawal of state patronage, support, or exclusive recognition from a church)". 3. Floccinaucinihilipipification (29 letters) This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless". 4. Supercalifragilisticeplalidocious (34 letters) From the movie Mary Poppins. It means "god". 5. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters) Used by Mark McShane in his novel Untimely Ripped (1963). It means the act of surpassing the act of transubstantiation, which refers specifically to the transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the Roman Catholic mass. 6. Hepaticocholecystostcholecystenterostomy(40 letters) Found in Gould's Medical Dictionary. It is defined as "the surgical formation of a passage between the gall bladder and hepatic duct, on the one hand, andbetween the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other". 7. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosts (45 letters) Found in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 8th edition. It is "a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust". It occurs especially in miners. 8. Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied (50 letters) The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais. 9. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary (51 letters) A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock. 10. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic (52 letters) Describes the composition of the spa wters at Bristol, in Gloucestershire, England. The word was coined by an English medical writer, Dr. Edward Strother (1675 - 1737). 11.Bababadalgharaghtakamminapronnkonnbronntonnepronnt- uonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk (100 letters) This word is on the first pate of Finegans Wake by James Joyce, and is a symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. (Other 100-letter words appear throughout the book.) 12. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrim- matosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophat- toperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaph- etraganopterygon (182 letters) The English transliteration of a Greek word that occurs in Aristophanes' play The Ecclesiazusae. The word is defined a "a goulash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks", or "has". |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Nobody: 9:05pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
Florena:Exactly where d op missed it. We are in a world where people actually form words. You can imagine beyonce's "bootylicious" |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Florena(f): 9:07pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
[quote author=candygosh]@op you should have said what's the longest word in the english dictionary. Gosh, there are lots of dico now, english, french, german, spanish, etc. Well below are some pretty long words. 1. Honorificabilitudinita - Tibus (27 letters) The word occurs in Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, and means "with honorablenesses." 2. Antidisestablishmentarianism(28 letters) The word means, according Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language, "a doctrine of opposition to disestablishment (withdrawal of state patronage, support, or exclusive recognition from a church)". 3. Floccinaucinihilipipification (29 letters) This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless". 4. Supercalifragilisticeplalidocious (34 letters) From the movie Mary Poppins. It means "god". 5. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters) Used by Mark McShane in his novel Untimely Ripped (1963). It means the act of surpassing the act of transubstantiation, which refers specifically to the transformation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the Roman Catholic mass. 6. Hepaticocholecystostcholecystenterostomy(40 letters) Found in Gould's Medical Dictionary. It is defined as "the surgical formation of a passage between the gall bladder and hepatic duct, on the one hand, andbetween the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other". 7. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosts (45 letters) Found in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, 8th edition. It is "a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust". It occurs especially in miners. 8. Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied (50 letters) The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais. 9. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary (51 letters) A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock. 10. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic (52 letters) Describes the composition of the spa wters at Bristol, in Gloucestershire, England. The word was coined by an English medical writer, Dr. Edward Strother (1675 - 1737). 11.Bababadalgharaghtakamminapronnkonnbronntonnepronnt- uonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk (100 letters) This word is on the first pate of Finegans Wake by James Joyce, and is a symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. (Other 100-letter words appear throughout the book.) 12. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrim- matosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophat- toperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaph- etraganopterygon (182 letters) The English transliteration of a Greek word that occurs in Aristophanes' play The Ecclesiazusae. The word is defined a "a goulash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks", or "has".[/quote] i beg my oga e don do i'm even tired of pronuncing, anyway u get am wella |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Optimisticgondy(m): 9:54pm On Nov 15, 2012 |
candygosh: @op you should have said what's the longest word in the english dictionary. Gosh, there are lots of dico now, english, french, german, spanish, etc.Chai....you dey pronounce words abi you dey speak in tongue? If those fake pastors see these words, they don get their own way of speaking in tongue be that o. Lababrapantikomutanpalatawereseeilomoriewukrakankratolaapaatayaregyanshuchikalapalatasilelobamuomunretanlarinsejukannitayobasawolelobalohunyose...hmmm...my own word na the longest jor..Sirniyeh, pay me my 10k o...lol |
Re: What Is The Longest Word You Can Find In The Dictionary? by Sirniyeh(m): 12:04am On Nov 16, 2012 |
candygosh: @op you should have said what's the longest word in the english dictionary. Gosh, there are lots of dico now, english, french, german, spanish, etc.. . Candy... Na wa for you o. As i dey read am, the power of holy spirit just descended on me and my heaven opened, and one ogbonge business idea just fuleee for my oblongata. Shai, you don take me go another level of holy tongue. More anointing to your swagger |
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