13 longest words in English language

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZOjlHfnMOKENpZSzQ1s7NKil0l87AKbj9sYrJX2jjjhjFSk_phyphenhyphenc2_gkkbZhP2dt8j5gg1GME_tCDhaOskxLkE1RrQsrOeZnl3Er3T9I_5oOvcnKOPXtLdQmhEYt3VE2OQ18ZkivSozQ/s1600/5374101493_187d711ee8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsZOjlHfnMOKENpZSzQ1s7NKil0l87AKbj9sYrJX2jjjhjFSk_phyphenhyphenc2_gkkbZhP2dt8j5gg1GME_tCDhaOskxLkE1RrQsrOeZnl3Er3T9I_5oOvcnKOPXtLdQmhEYt3VE2OQ18ZkivSozQ/s320/5374101493_187d711ee8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: black; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><strong>13. Honorificabilitudinita - Tibus (27 letters)</strong></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"></span></div><div align="center"><br />The word occurs in Shakespeare's play Love's Labor's Lost, and mens "with honorablenesses." It can also be viewed as a rearrangement of the Latin sentence "Hi ludi F. Baconis nati tuiti orbi", meaning: "Tese plays, F.Bacon's offspring, are preserved for the world. This twist has been used to support the"Baconian theory" that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays.<br />However, in The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957), William F. and Elizebeth S. Friedman have similar anagrams that "prove" Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis Carroll, and Gertrude Stein also wrote Shakespeare.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>12. Antidisestablishmentarianism(28 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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)".<br />It is said to have been used once by British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898).</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>11. Floccinaucinihilipipification (29 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless".</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>10. Supercalifragilisticeplalidocious (34 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />From the movie Mary Poppins. It means "god".</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>9. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>8. Hepaticocholecystostcholecystenterostomy(40 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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, and between the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other".</div><div align="center"><strong>7. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosts (45 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>6. Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied (50 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>5. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary (51 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>4. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic (52 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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).</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>3.Bababadalgharaghtakamminapronnkonnbronntonnepronnt-uonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordeenenthurnuk (100 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />This word is on the first pate of Finnegan Wake by James Joyce, and is a symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. (Other 100-letter words appear throughout the book.) </div><div align="center"><strong>2. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrim-matosilphiparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophat-toperisteralektryonoptekephalliokiglopeleiolagoiosiraiobaph-etraganopterygon (182 letters)</strong></div><div align="center"><br />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". A more, detailed translation is"plattero-filletomulleti-turboto-cranio-morselo-pickleo-acido-silphio-honeyo-poured on the top of theouzelo-throstleo-cushato-culvero-roastingo-marrowo-dippero-levereto-syrupo-gibleto-wings.</div><div align="center"><br /><strong>1. (3,600 letters) {am I gone nuts to write that word down!!}</strong></div><strong></strong><div align="center"><strong><br /></strong>A chemical name describing bovine NADP - specific glutamate dehydrogenase, which contains 500 amino acids. </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><br /></div><div align="center"><strong>Finally an easiest request to u all my blog readers... do teach me to pronounce these words! I am not asking anything big...just 13 words! </strong></div></div>

13 longest words in English language

13. Honorificabilitudinita - Tibus (27 letters) The word occurs in Shakespeare's play Love's Labor's Lost, and mens "with ...

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