Friday, July 15, 2011

[MITS CSE-2011 REBELS] Longest and most complex words in English :

Longest and most complex words in English :   Honorificabilitudinitatibus – It means invincible glorious  Antidisestablishmentarianism – It means opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church  Floccinauccinihilipilification – It means act or habit to deny the value of some particular things  Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - This 34-letter word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is a word specifically created for a song in the movie Mary Poppins until its film version of the musical was popular enough that everyone got to know this word.  Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies - This 39-letter long is the longest word found in Gould's Medical Dictionary. It is a surgical terminology, which refers to surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.  Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - This 45-letter long word is the longest word found in dictionaries. According to the eighth edition of Webster dictionary, it means,
Sravan Kumar 8:34pm Jul 15
Longest and most complex words in English :

Honorificabilitudinitatibus – It means invincible glorious

Antidisestablishmentarianism – It means opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church

Floccinauccinihilipilification – It means act or habit to deny the value of some particular things

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - This 34-letter word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is a word specifically created for a song in the movie Mary Poppins until its film version of the musical was popular enough that everyone got to know this word.

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies - This 39-letter long is the longest word found in Gould's Medical Dictionary. It is a surgical terminology, which refers to surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - This 45-letter long word is the longest word found in dictionaries. According to the eighth edition of Webster dictionary, it means, "pneumoconiosis disease caused by inhaling small particles of quartzite." This is the scientific name for a coal miner's disease, which is particularly caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust. It is the lung disease that miners in Africa came down with from getting silicon silvers in their lungs.

Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied -
This word has 50 letters. There is a display of one French writer's ancient story in a library shelf, with this long English word as its book title.
Osseocaynisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary - This word has 51 letters. It is a terminology related to an anatomy. It appeared in a novel called "Headlong Hall" written by an English writer, 1785-1866.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic - This word is at 52 letters, describing the spa water at Bath, England. It was invented by the British Medical author, Dr. Edward Strother, 1675-1737

Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk - This word has 100 letters. It appeared in the book titled "Finnegan wake" written by Irish author, Andean James Joyce, 1882- 1942. This word refers to the downfall of Adam and Eve.

Lopado temakho selakho galeo kranio-leipsano drim hypo¬trimmato silphio kar-abo melito katakekhy meno kikhl epi¬kossy-pho phatto perister alektryon opto keph-allio kigklo¬peleio lagōio siraio bap-hē tragano pterýgōne
This word has 182 letters and is derived from the Greek word, originating from the drama script of comedy titled "ecclesiazusae" written by a Greek writer, Aristophanes, 448- 385. It refers to spicy foods that cooked from the remaining vegetables and beef. It is a frictional dish mentioned in Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen

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According to the Guinness Book of World Records, 18th edition, this 1,909-letter-long word is regarded as the world's longest word in the English language. This word has also included in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts. It is the longest real word of a Tryptophan Synthetase (its scientific name is Methionylglutaminy…serine) A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids which describes a protein in the amino acid of a strand of DNA. The shortened version of this protein is known as titin, or sometimes conectin, which is involved in striated muscle formation. Its empirical formula is C132983H211861N36149O40883S693.

Hippopotomonstrosequippeddaliophobia - This English word has 36 letters. It is somewhat ironic that the word for "fear of long words" as it should be has a length of 6.2 cm.

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