Long Word Dictionary
By:
Inuki **Ookami**
(In case you were wondering, how one would go about writing any of these words, I'd suggest a #2 pencil. A single No. 2 Pencil can draw a 35 mile line before running out of lead.)
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Long Word
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What It Means
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| Abaft | Back of; behind. At the stern; toward the stern |
| Aberrant | Deviating from what is regular, normal, or right |
| Abinito | Latin From the beginning |
| Ablaut | Substitution of one root vowel sound for another, often accompanying a modification of use or meaning, as in ring, rang, rung |
| Abomasum (Abomasus) | The foruth stomach of cows, sheep, and other animals that chew the cud. The abomasum is the stomach that digests the food |
| Abscissa | Line running from left to right on a graph that defines a point in a system of coordinates |
| Abscond | Go away suddenly and secretly, go off and hide |
| Absinthe (Absinth) | A bitter, green alchoholic drink flavored with wormwood and anise |
| Absitomen | Latin May there be no ill omen |
| Abstemious | Sparing in eating and drinking; moderate; temperate |
| Antidisestablishmentarianism |
A doctrine for the dissiloution of establishmentarianism |
| Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonn thunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk |
Not surprisingly, our spell-check program balked at this word, which was used by James Joyce in his famous novel, Finnegan's Wake (the third paragraph therein).(1939). |
| Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonn- bronntonnerronntuvarrhounawnskawntoohooho- ordenenthurnuk | |
Checkmate |
The origin of this word is the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead". |
| Cleave |
One of many semantics, or words with two synonyms which are antonyms. Those are Adhere and separate. |
| Cover |
One of many semantics, or words with two synonyms which are antonyms. Those are conceal and expose. |
| El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula | Los Angeles's full name is |
| Faux Pas |
Slip in speech, conduct, manners etc.; breach of etiquette; blunder |
| Flammable and inflammable | Seemingly contradictory synonyms |
| Floccinaucinihilipification
(flox-ee-pox-ee-ni-hi-li-pi-li-fi-cay-shun.) |
The action of estimating as worthless |
| Floccinaucinihilipilificationism | According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this is the longest word in the English language. It means "the act of rendering as useless.". |
| Frowzy | Slovenly; dirty; untidy. Smelling bad |
| Frumenty | Hulled wheat boiled in milk and flavored with sugar, cinnamon etc. |
| Funicular |
Of or hanging from a rope |
| Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddolonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion | This a 66-letter place name in Wales, according to Dr. David Crystal's Encyclopedia of Language means"the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay." |
| Hioppopotomonstrosesquipedalian | Ironically, this word refers to a very long word. How appropriate. |
| Honorificabilitudinitatibus | Shakespeare used it in Love's Labor's Lost (1594). |
| Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone | The two largest anagrams. |
| Hydroxydeoxycorticosterones | |
| Krung thep mahanakhon bovorn ratanakosin mahintharayutthaya mahadilok pop noparatratchathani burom udomratchanivetma hasathan amornpiman avatarnsa thit akkathattiyavisnukarmprasit.. | The world record for the longest name for a place is: It contains 167 letters and is the poetic name for Bangkok, Thailand |
| Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch | According to one source the longest place-name in the world, with 58 letters. It is a town in North Wales meaning "St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool of Llantysilio of the red cave" or "St. Mary's (Church) by the white aspen over the whirlpool, and St. Tysilio's (Church) by the red cave" in Welsh. |
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Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutami |
The longest word in the English language is actually a formula written out like this: C785H122ON2120248S2. This is the chemical name for the tryptophan synthetase A protein. When spelled out fully, it is 1,913 letters.: |
| Orthotetrachidecahedrons | Word describing the shape of the bubbles in beer foam |
| Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconios-is |
This is a medical condition more commonly known as miner's lung disease that occurs by breathing in particles of volcanic matter or a similar fine dust. It is the longest word in Webster's Third New International Dictionary and in the Oxford English Dictionary. |
| Praetertranssubstantiationalistically | An adverb used in the novel Untimely Ripped (1963), by Mark McShane. |
| Sanction | One of many semantics, which are words with two synonyms which are antonyms. Those are approve and prohibit (colloquial) |
| Strengths | The longest one syllable word..It is tied for first in this department is "Screeched". Some hoakier folks say "Smiles" is supposed to be the longest word in the dictionary because "there's a mile between the two S's." |
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious |
Coined for the movie Mary Poppins, this nonsense term is said to be the most widely known "long word." |
| Superficiality |
Superficial quality or condition; shallownes. Something superficial |
| Toxicant and intoxicant | Seemingly contradictory synonyms |
Transparent |
One of many semantic, which are words with two synonyms which are antonyms. Those are hidden (jargon) and known (jargon). |
Trim |
One of many semantics, which are words with two synonyms which are antonyms. Those are garnish and prune. |
| Xenoderm Pigmentosum |
A rare disease that causes people's skin to become serverely affected by sunlight, in fact, their skin falls off if they are in sunlight. Due to this they become very white skinned, and can be mistaken for vampires |
| Xanthic | Yellow; of yellowish tint |
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