Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis meaning It's an invented term that was coined by Everett M. Smith, the president of the National Puzzlers' League.
lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsano...pterygon. 183. A fictional dish of food. Longest word coined by a major author, the longest word ever to appear in literature. Contrived nonce word; not in dictionary; Ancient Greek transliteration.
The longest English word is also the longest word in the world, with almost 190,000 letters. It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
As we saw at the start of our hunt, the longest word according to a lot of sources is the technical name for the protein titin. It is the same across all languages and has nearly 200,000 letters. Here's a snippet of the first 4,000 characters!
isoleucine (189, 819 letters)
It's Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu. This 1,000-foot hill near the township Porangahau holds the Guinness World Record for longest place name with 85 characters.
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nonsensical word that is sometimes used to describe something as being great or extraordinary. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is used especially by children and fans of Disney movies to describe something as being really good.
The word is 189,819 letters long. It's actually the name of a giant protein called Titin. Proteins are usually named by mashing-up the names of the chemicals making them. And since Titin is the largest protein ever discovered, its name had to be equally as large.
"Post Office" starts with 'P', ends with 'E' and has a million letters in it.
500000 in words is Five Hundred Thousand.
Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamyl… serine (1909 letters, ? syllables) Despite being another chemical name, this word makes the list because it is the longest published word in English. Originally published in a dictionary for students, this word is simply the scientific name for a particular strain of E.
methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine
You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is a hill near Porangahau, south of Waipukurau in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
The word, first published in 391 BC is called “Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsan… pterygon”. The Greek word counts to 171 letters, which translates to 183 letters in English. This word refers to a fictional word meaning rotted dogfish head, wood pigeon, wrasse, roasted head of dabchick, and other food items.
There are at least 26 locations in the world that only have a single letter for its name. What is this? There are seven different villages in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway with the name Å, which means “river” in the Scandinavian languages. The name stems from Old Norse á which means “(small) river”.
Near Porangahau in Hawke's Bay is an unassuming hill known as "Taumata whakatangi hangakoauau o tamatea turi pukakapiki maunga horo nuku pokai whenua kitanatahu", which translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater', ...
LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH, WALES. This village on the Ynys Môn island off the north-west coast of Wales has 58 letters. It is the place with the second-longest name in the world. The original name of the village was Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll.
In fact, most of the very long words in the dictionary are scientific terms: the second-longest word is electroencephalographically, which has 27 letters, and means 'by means of an electroencephalograph' (referring to a machine used to record brain activity).
Do you know what the longest Afrikaans word is? According to the Total Book of South African Records, it's: Tweedehandsemotorverkoopsmannevakbondstakingsvergaderingsameroeperstoespraakskrywerspersverklaringuitreikingsmediakonferensieaankondiging (136 letters).