Is this the longest word in the world? :shrug:> Please, don't ask me what it means...
aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriol ic...
Wow eh?

Reiku :m:

NORDÖSTERSJÖKUSTARTILLERIFLYGSPANINGSSIMULATORANLÄ GG-
NINGSMATERIELUNDERHÅLLSUPPFÖLJNINGSSYSTEMDISKUSSIO NS-
INLÄGGSFÖRBEREDELSEARBETEN

Supposedly, this is Swedish for "preparatory work on the contribution to the discussion on the maintaining system of support of the material of the aviation survey simulator device within the north-east part of the coast artillery of the Baltic"

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriol ic, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). The word is composed of the following elements:

* Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo)
* Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
* Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
* Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
* Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
* Cupreo: from "copper"
* Vitriolic: resembling vitriol

The IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemical compounds is open-ended, giving rise to such words as Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine (189819 letters).
I couldn't find the full word though, which is probably for the best :)

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriol ic, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). The word is composed of the following elements:

* Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo)
* Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
* Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
* Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
* Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
* Cupreo: from "copper"
* Vitriolic: resembling vitriol

Are you absolutely certain about the first one? I thought that was based on the same root word but meant "water."

Are you absolutely certain about the first one? I thought that was based on the same root word but meant "water."

I agree that that makes more sense, I got it from wikipedia :shrug:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English

I'm sure there's another thread on this somewhere...

Anyhoo - longest word, if you include scientific words, is "Methionylthreonylthreonyl...isoleucine", it's 189,819 letters long - and I'm sure you could probably get longer ones - as they're mostly descriptions of proteins.

I'd think the longest word would be INFINITY for it goes on forever.;)

But so does ETERNITY, and ENDLESS. :eek:

So we have joint winners!! \o/

I want to be a winner too! UNBOUNDED

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

This is not a word.

Unending :D

This is not a word.
How about the word uttered by the whole World when GWB got elected?

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

This is not an official spelling :)

no you all wrong!!

its: smiles

because there is a mile in between the two "S's"

heehee

no, it is stwomiles

sinfinityplusonemiless

Take that!

lol :)

The official name of Bangkok (Thailand) is a word that needs to be respected.

กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยามหาดิลก ภพนพรัตน์ ราชธานีบุรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์ มหาสถาน อมรพิมาน อวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยะ วิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

Not too shabby, aye? :)

you pronounce it, more or less, like so:

Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

Wow!

Cool. Any more examples of the longest words of other languages? In Portuguese:

- Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico: defines the person with a disease caused by inhalating vulcanic ashes.

Interesting to note that the word ranked in 3rd is Hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia - the phobia to pronounce long and complicated words.

Pneumoultramicroscopicossilicovulcanoconiótico

The English word for this disease is the longest word in the language: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

One of the longest non-medical word is floccinaucinihilapilification, the act of declaring something worthless or valueless.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriol ic, describing the spa waters at Bath, England, is attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). The word is composed of the following elements:

* Aequeo: equal (Latin, aequo)
* Salino: containing salt (Latin, salinus)
* Calcalino: calcium (Latin, calx)
* Ceraceo: waxy (Latin, cera)
* Aluminoso: alumina (Latin)
* Cupreo: from "copper"
* Vitriolic: resembling vitriol



I disagree.
Cupreo means from the skull

Antidisestablishmentarianism can be infinitely prefixed sensibly and stands itself as the longest non-medical/non-scientific English word.

Consider:

Neocontraprotopseudoneoanticontraprotopseudoantico ntracontraneoantineocontraneoantipseudoprotoantidi establishmentarianism.

But neocontraprotopseudoneoanticontraprotopseudoantico ntracontraneoantineocontraneoantipseudoprotoantidi establishmentarianism is not a real word, you just made it up.