Presently, what is the longest word in the english dictionary?
ak_aquastar
2008-04-21 18:48:01 UTC
Also if that word doesn't mean anything than what is the longest word in the english dictionary that has a meaning? Also if any of u know what's the name for a word that is the same read backwords & forwards like racecar?
Three answers:
reedmiranda18
2008-04-21 18:55:00 UTC
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.ogg - a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word."[1]. It was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary. This 45-letter word, referred to as P45[2], first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition[3]. It is listed in the current edition of several dictionaries.[4] A condition meeting the word's definition is normally called silicosis.
auntie_kk3
2008-04-22 02:09:28 UTC
I thought the longest word was: antidisestablishmenttarianism: opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. (It is the longest noncoined and nontechnical word.)
I researched it and found that Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in a major dictionary.
"a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes' but occurring chiefly as an instance of a very long word."
Noon is a Palindrome...
anonymous
2008-04-22 01:55:42 UTC
Level is a backward and forward word
I don't know but the longest word in the world is a type a disease.
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