The Most Horrible English Words

Posted on January 31st, 2008 in Style by CHAN LEE PENG
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And you thought your vocabulary was good? Try these words on for size.

  1. Honorificabilitudinitatibus

    2. This word has 27 letters which appears in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V, Scene I, which means “invincible glorious” or “Honorableness.” It is the ablative plural of the Latin contrived honorificabilitudinitas, which is an extension of honorificabilis meaning “honorableness.” This word was spoken by Costard in Shakespeare’s plays:

    O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.
    I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;
    for thou art not so long by the head as
    honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier
    swallowed than a flap-dragon.

  2. Antidisestablishmentarianism

    3. This is the best known long word which has 28 letters. It means “opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England” as explained in Dictionary.com. Specifically, it is the political philosophy that is opposed to the separation of the church and state. This term originated in the context of the 19th century Church of England, antidisestablishmentarians were opposed to proposals to remove its status as the state church of England. It has been quoted once by the British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, 1809- 1898. This word can be broken down as follows:

          ~ism………………..The philosophy of

          ~arian……………….those people who belive in

          ~anti…………………opposition to

          ~dis…………………..the removal of

          ~establishment…….The Church of England as the official state church

  3. Floccinauccinihilipilification

    4. This 30- letter-word is a non-scientific English word and it appears in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. It is longer than antidisestablishmentarianism. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls floccinaucinihilipilification “the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary,” whereas it calls pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis “the longest made-up word in the Oxford English Dictionary.” It means “act or habit to deny the value of some particular things” but some dictionaries translate it as “the act of considering something to be worthless.” It was formed by Estonian scholars, who searched for as many Latin words meaning “nothing” or “not very much as possible”: flocci (means “a little bit,” but literally it means “a bit of wool”), nauci (means very little), nihili (means “nothing”), pili (means “very little”); fused them together, and then added the suffix “fication” on the end, to give the sense of an action.

    This word has been used by Sir Walter Scott and Senators Robert Byrd and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. It was used by Senator Jesse Helms in 1999 during the debate on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty [Randolph V. Cinco]. It also appeared on March 14, 1996, in “Zippy,” a comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate:

    Do you think I may be too quick to find fault with things and people, Zippy?
    Yeh.
    Th’ ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ process.
    Th’ what?
    Floccinaucinihilipilification!! It means ‘the estimation of something as valueless’!
    You’ve been randomly reading th’ dictionary, haven’t you?
    Yes. That and my natural tendency toward antifloccinaucinihilipilification!!

    Floccinaucinihilipilification was also used by Press Secretary Mike McCurry in his December 6, 1995, White House Press Briefing in discussing Congressional Budget Office estimates and assumptions: “But if you—as a practical matter of estimating the economy, the difference is not great. There’s a little bit of floccinaucinihilipilification going on here.”

  4. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

    • 1949:  Parker & Young (unpublished song-title): Supercalafajalistickespialadojus.
    • 1951:  Parker & Young (song-title): Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus; or, The super song.
    • 1964:  R. M. & R. B; Sherman (song-title): Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
    • 1967:  Decisions U.S. Courts involving Copyright 1965-66 488 The complaint alleges copyright infringement of plaintiff’s song `Supercalafajalistickespeealadojus’ by defendants’ song ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.’ (All variants of this tongue twister will hereinafter be referred to collectively as ‘the word’.)

    5. Above citations show that this stunning word has been noted for its first four letters from 1949 to 1967.

    This 34-letter word appears in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is a word specifically created for a song (you can listen the song here) in a movie called “Mary Poppins” until its film version of the musical was popular enough that everyone got to know this word.

  5. Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

    6. 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.

  6. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

    7. 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.

    On Feb. 23, 1935, the New York Herald-Tribune reported on page 3:

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis succeeded electrophotomicro-graphically as the longest word in the English language recognized by the National Puzzlers’ League at the opening session of the organization’s 103d semi-annual meeting held yesterday at the Hotel New Yorker.

    The puzzlers explained that the forty-five-letter word is the name of a special form of silicosis caused by ultra-microscopic particles of siliceous volcanic dust.

  7. Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied

    8. 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.

  8. Osseocaynisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary

    9. 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.

  9. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

    • 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

    10. 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. This word is composed of the following elements:

  10. Bababadalgharaghtakam-minarronnkonnbronnton-nerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

    11. 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.

  11. Lopado­temakho­selakho­galeo­kranio-leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­kar-abo­melito­katakekhy­meno­kikhl­epi­kossy-pho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opto­keph-allio­kigklo­peleio­lagōio­siraio­bap-hē­tragano­pterýgōne

    12. 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.

  12. Methionylglutaminylarginyltyros-ylglutamylserylleucylphen-ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylgl-utamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylalan-ylphenylalanylvalylprolyphenylalanY-lvalythreonylleucylglycylaspartylp-rolylglycylisoleucylglutamylglutam-inylsErylleucyllysylisoleucylasp-artylthreonylleucylIsoleucylglutam-ylalanylglycylalanylasparthlalanylleucy-lglutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylp-henylalanylseRylaspartylprolylleucylal-anylaspartylglycylpRolylthreOnylisoleuc-ylglutaminylasPfraginylalanylthreonyll-eucylarfinylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-anylglycylvalythreonylprolylalanylglut-aminylcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylm-ethionylleucylalanylleuOylisoleucylargi-nylglutaminyllysyhistidylprolylthreonylis-oleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylmethion-yltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphen-ylalanylasparaginyllysyglycylisoleucylas-partylglutamylphenylalanylthrosylalanyl-glutaminylcsteinylglutamyllysylvalylgly-cylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalnyl-aspartylvalylprolylvalylglUtaminylglutam-ylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylgl-utaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylas-paraginyvalylalanylprolylisoleucylprolyliso-leucylphenylalanylisoleucylphenylalanylisol-eucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalanylasp-artylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylgluta-minylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginy-lglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrOsylleucylleucylsery-larginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycylalanyl-glutamYlasparainylarginylalanylalanylleucyl-prolylleucylasparaginylhistidylleucylValylala-nyllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparaginy-lalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglg-ycylphenylalanylglycylisoleucylserylalanylp-rolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalany-lisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylgly-cylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisole-ucylvalyllysylisoIeucylisoleucylglutamylgluta-minylHistidylasparaginyliSoleucylglutamylpro-lylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylle-ucyllysylvalylphenylalanylcalylglutaminylproly-lmethionlysylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine.

    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.

  13. 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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103 Responses to “The Most Horrible English Words”

  • Dee Huff
    January 31st, 2008 at 4:11 am

    Good Grief! You’d think they’d break some of the longer ones up! I’ve actually seen the word antidisestablishmentarianism used, although I’ve never used it myself.

  • I\'m glad I haven\'t had a #5, Chan!
    January 31st, 2008 at 4:38 am

    I\’m glad I haven\’t had a #5, Chan.

  • valli
    January 31st, 2008 at 5:36 am

    Veryyyyyyyyyyy interesting.

  • Judy Sheldon
    January 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am

    Good research, Chan. Thank God we don’t have a spelling test on these.

  • Alexa Gates
    January 31st, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    ohh man!!! those are some long words!!

  • Darlene McFarlane
    February 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am

    1913 letter? I never knew there were words this long. You bring the most interesting subjects for us to enjoy, Chan.

    Thanks for sharing.

  • fish
    February 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    wow! 1913 letters!!!! that’s crazy!!!

  • a_
    February 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Those are long horrible words. But there are plenty of awful, horrible, short words.
    Buggy, onesie, heely, ….

  • ev
    February 1st, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    what about southernplayalisticadillacmusik? from Outkast’s first cd? Great cd, great word.

  • b. radley
    February 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm

    veryinterestingarticlethankyou.

    very interesting article, thank you.

  • Johasua
    February 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm

    cool

  • john richardson
    February 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    “L” missing in # 4

  • ancientscribbler
    February 3rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    My word Chan!!! As an old word sharpener myself, this was indeed very interesting. I’ve entered them into my spell-checker.

  • Samuel Z Jones
    February 3rd, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    Those truly are some horrible words, but I think only antidisestablishmentarianism is a proper English word; its particularly nasty because its a double-negative in its own right.

    That’s some impressive vocabulary, nonetheless; well done.

  • rob
    February 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    theres too much “y”s in the last one.

  • lobbol
    February 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    I always liked floccinaucinihilipilification
    meaning ‘action or habit of estimating as worthless’. There a good story behind it too.
    Theres also a town in Wales (okay so its welsh but I still have to mention it) GORSA­FAWDDACH­AIDRAIGODAN­HEDDO­GLEDDOLON­PENRHYN­AREUR­DRAETH­CEREDIGION
    It means: the Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northern Penrhyn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan bay.
    Love number 11, spicy vegtables!
    Thanks for a funny article and reminding me of those crazy words. :)

  • john
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:50 am

    pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is spelled wrong.

  • aceparable
    February 4th, 2008 at 6:13 am

    Not exactly poetry friendly. Try squeezing #12 into a limerick, or haiku..

  • Lynn
    February 4th, 2008 at 8:36 am

    HAAAAAAAA! Wow! But what about supercalafragilisticexpialadocious? I probably spelled it incorrectly, but isn’t is supposed to have an “FRAGILISTIC” in it? :)

  • Dan Slone AKA "Navwriter"
    February 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    At one point I was enthralledd with the flow of the language, in awe of the sound of words - now - I find myself as stunnedd as a prospective who discovers his intended has a secret life qtw

  • Danielle
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    There’s also “Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia” which, ironically, means “fear of long words. Great list, thanks.

  • drake
    February 4th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    I to remember it being “SUPERCALIFRAGILISTEXPI ali DOCIOUS

  • Steve
    February 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    greeK

  • CHAN LEE PENG
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Hi, Janeane,

    Can you list out the words that you said mispell? Thanks!

  • emma
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Wow, now go try learning German. They quite regularly have words this long and longer. ^^

  • Sean Michael Donahue
    February 5th, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Wow.
    I’m not even going to attempt the last few.
    nice post =)

  • anna
    February 6th, 2008 at 12:08 am

    haha this is amazing!

    yeah, i had #6 (which is spelled wrong on here by the way) as one of my spelling words in 3rd grade. pretty crazy huh?

    oh, it should be: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

  • Nelson Doyle
    February 6th, 2008 at 1:02 am

    CHAN, this list and article had me thrilled and dumbfounded, because I realized that our spelling bees are rigged. I have never witnessed any of these words in the National Spelling Bee, not to say that I could ever spell the words those bright kids have to spell to win.

    I just admire the obvious research that you had to do for this article. This article must be Stumbled.

    Nelson Doyle

  • KathySpring
    February 6th, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    crazy you’d think that there a short easier words to use
    great informative article
    thanks for posting
    good luck
    kathyspring

  • Shelly McRae
    February 6th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    This list is just too much fun! As for any mispellings… let’s just call them typos!

  • Savannah N
    February 7th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    I’m pretty certain you’re missing an “L” and an “I” in Supercalifragilisticexpiadocious. Shouldn’t it be SupercalifragilisticexpiaLIdocious? I’m not sure why I noticed. That would make the word 2 letters longer, thus a little more impressive.

  • Peter
    February 7th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

    I had a Top 10 of Everything 2004, which seemed pretty reputable. Discounting chemical names, it says the longest word in the English language has 310 letters. Obviously, I cant remember it. Put it meant something like “Someone who pratices withcraft, divintation, etc.”.

  • GeologyJoe
    February 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    I think you mis-spelled #12. LOL.

  • Duhmoms
    February 7th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    #6 is definitely misspelled pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
    I had this as a spelling word in 5th grade!

  • Mandi
    February 7th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    As an Irish person, I feel that I can criticize, but only 3 of the words in Finnegan’s Wake were actual words - the rest was Joyce making stuff up. The worst case of The Emperor’s New Clothes in literary history!

  • Angel
    February 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    holy!! that last word was crazy!!! It would take you a whole day just to write it lol

  • John
    February 8th, 2008 at 8:06 pm

    Floccinaucinihili-PILI-fication. There are some more typos but I think other people have spotted them… I don’t get how you could misspell any of them though, as you must have had to copy them out of the dictionary!

  • Nick
    February 9th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Tryptophan synthase is an enzyme composed of amino acids, as are all proteins. Along with the spelling errors, I suggest you check your facts before posting them.

  • mike s
    February 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm

    author Chan needs a little work on his adjectives, when referring to authors from Ireland they are Irish not Ireland same with Greeks and Greece

  • Heymonthkumar
    February 10th, 2008 at 12:23 am

    Oh God! I never knew we had such words… good collections though. Does any one still use these words?

  • Angel
    February 11th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    Are these words or what? Very interesting though…

  • Dhara
    February 11th, 2008 at 9:49 am

    Good grief, never realized Eng lang had these words, good research, keep it going.

  • Sam
    February 11th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Haha take organic chem or molecular bio and there’s more large words than you could ever want… if you really want to call them words. Like the last- they are mostly just words strung together of different compounds.

  • Alfonso the Great
    February 12th, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Sam I like what you so eloquently quoted as saying that there are many dysfunctional words in the English language that would take a linguist or a trained writer to deciepher the codes of righteous passage. Even though, I loved the article-great work.

  • Robin
    February 12th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

  • jasmine
    February 13th, 2008 at 2:21 am

    these word are really horrible one they are even difficult to pronounce

    jasmine
    tech-chek.blogspot.com

  • s r sharma
    February 13th, 2008 at 4:36 am

    very intresting.

  • Laurel
    February 15th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    Couldn’t read your page. Ads by Yahoo got in the way. Thumbs down on Stumble. Clean it up.

  • boo
    February 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    laurel your a twat

  • Michael
    February 16th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    #12-you have got to be kidding me-that one is pretty hard to swallow.

  • Rizza
    February 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am

    WOW, I would feel bad if any of these words were in a Spelling Bee contest..

  • Johasua
    February 18th, 2008 at 11:18 am

    1913 letters? that is unbelieveable

  • yagii
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    o w kur*we..!!

  • Zonolive
    February 20th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    I couldn’t stop laughing, this so so crazy, and I thought I was nuts! But what about the 01.01,10.11.00 that are binary. At least, here, you find some diversity, and it might have been sort of tedious. Let’s hope, this just happened because paper is precious, the author couldn’t afford the spacing. Can I fault anything worth a good laugh?

  • Tarra B.
    February 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    great, interesting article, thanks!

  • Jliu
    February 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am

    “Methionylthreonylthreonyl…isoleucine 189,819 Longest word ever Some professional dictionary writers regard generic names of chemical compounds as verbal formulae rather than as English words” wikipedia

  • uzaku1
    February 23rd, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    lol

  • eViLegion
    February 27th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    Only #1, #2, #3 and #6 are actually real English words.

    #6 was actually invented in order to BE the longest English word, and hense is of little true value, though it is listed in dictionaries.

    #4 is just the lyrics to a naff song, and whilst it appears in some dictionaries, it is listed with captial S making it a proper noun, and hense not true English.

    All the rest are “technical” words, mostly medical, which only have meaning within the confines of the area of expertise to which they’re related. In order to count they have to appear in a dictionary, or anyone could just coin a random collection of 2 million letters, make up a meaning, and pretend its English.

    #10 is surely Irish.

    #12 isn’t even close - its a verbal chemical fomula, not a word.

  • Mishele
    March 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    The “flocci” word gives me the creeps, somehow i’ve heard that part of the word in relation to some horrible pustulant malady. I like the medical terms; the anatomical ones are pretty self-explanatory. Makes me wish I had taken Latin, since it’s the basis for so much of our medical and musical language. It’s logical and always pronounced the same, so it’s probably not as much fun as English.

  • Mishele
    March 22nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    The “flocci” word gives me the creeps, somehow i’ve heard that part of the word in relation to some horrible pustulant malady. I like the medical terms; the anatomical ones are pretty self-explanatory. Makes me wish I had taken Latin, since it’s the basis for so much of our medical and musical language. It’s logical and always pronounced the same, so it’s probably not as much fun as English.

  • kevin
    March 24th, 2008 at 11:13 am

    Did you know that the British Comedy “Black Adder” used Antidisestablishmentarianism in a sentence?
    (Season 2, Episode 1 - Dish and Dishonesty)

    Prince George: “Well, bring him here at once!”
    Edmund: “Certainly sir. I shall return before you can say, ‘Antidisestablishmentarianism’.”

  • Chencho
    March 25th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    Floccinaucinihilipilification
    is
    Floccinaucihihilipilification

  • kate
    March 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

    oh dear.

  • kate
    March 25th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

    oh dear.

  • Jim
    March 25th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    Oh my Lordy!!!! In #4 you spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious correctly but you mis-spell Mary in Mary Poppins. I’m having flashbacks to dictation in high school English. LOL

  • Tom
    March 26th, 2008 at 2:43 am

    Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosy -
    lglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminy -
    lleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycyla -
    lanylphenylalanylvalylprolyphenylalanYlvalythre -
    onylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylg -
    lutamylglutaminylsErylleucyllysylisoleucy -
    laspartylthreonylleucylIsoleucylglutamy -
    lalanylglycylalanylasparthlalanylleucylg -
    lutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylse -
    Rylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylp -
    RolylthreOnylisoleucylglutaminylasPfraginylal -
    anylthreonylleucylarfinylalanylphenylalanylalany -
    lalanylglycylvalythreonylprolylalanylglutaminy -
    lcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucy -
    lalanylleuOylisoleucylarginylglutaminy -
    llysyhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylproly -
    lisoleucylglycylleucylmethionyltyrosylalany -
    lasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginy -
    llysyglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany -
    lthrosylalanylglutaminylcsteinylglutamyllysylva -
    lylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalny -
    laspartylvalylprolylvalylglUtaminylglutamylsery -
    lalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalany -
    lalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginyvalylalany -
    lprolylisoleucylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucy -
    lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalany -
    laspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginy -
    lglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycy -
    larginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrOsylleucyl -
    leucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreony -
    lglycylalanylglutamYlasparainylarginylalany -
    lalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidy -
    lleucylValylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamy -
    ltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylpro -
    lylleucylglutaminylglgycylphenylalanylglycy -
    lisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminy -
    lvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalany -
    lglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylsery -
    lglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoIeucy -
    lisoleucylglutamylglutaminylHistidylasparaginy -
    liSoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionyl -
    leucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanyl -
    calylglutaminylprolylmethionlysylalanylalanylt -
    hreonylarginylserine

  • anonymous
    March 28th, 2008 at 12:04 am

    About half of these words were actually made up by bush and mean nothing to anyone except him. (fact)

  • Moomin32
    March 28th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    My teacher said that the longest word so far is antidisestablishmentarianism but i found the 1 thousand and something letter long word.

    P.S. “Anti” and “dis” cancel each other out so it should be establishmentarianism

  • Tyler
    March 28th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    #71- No, that’s wrong. It is against the political idea of disestablishmentarianism. So the two negatives don’t cancel each other out. They were saying, “Hey. Don’t de-establish the church.”

  • filipferrer
    March 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    how great u r?!!! im also interest about this publishing??? can u pls help me?????i wait for ur reply????

  • Mark
    March 29th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Good grief! “Long in its length?!” What were you thinking? While we’re on the subject, what on earth makes you think that “Marry Poppins” means “good?” The word to which you refer actually appeared in the movie “Mary Poppins,” where the word “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is used with a meaning of “good.” If you’re going to write snarky articles about words, at least get your punctuation correct so your sentences actually say what you intended.

  • bekee
    March 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    weird, i had #6 as a spelling test in 5th grade. mean teachers we had!

  • swapna
    March 30th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    interesting article, amazing….

  • EEZY
    March 31st, 2008 at 8:21 am

    amazing!!!! what can I say????

  • orlando
    March 31st, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    i didnt even think a word could be like past 100 charecters

  • kat
    March 31st, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    nice one!

  • Miranda
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    this was good. i have actually heard of antidisestablimentarianism. but the last word is crazy. somebody should abbreviate it. cant believe you left out the fear of long words “Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia” i remember it form psy class if we could spell it on the test we got extra credit. i also wondered if you had that fear would you devolop phobiaphobia bc you would be afraid of your own fear?

  • Maurice
    April 1st, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    It’s “Mary” Poppins, not “Marry” Poppins. It is also not a real word, but made up for the movie.

  • jhenz
    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    The only word I am familiar with is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Every time I think of it, I remember Harry Potters witch spells (sounds like it…). We even did a tongue twist game about it. It was fun though! :D But I never imagine the word #12 existed. :o whoah!

  • Phuong--VN
    April 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    very very impressive. how difficult. T_T

  • Jon
    April 8th, 2008 at 3:06 am

    Sorry, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis turned out to be a hoax.

  • Tom
    April 11th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    #10 isn’t a real word as has been pointed out i think
    and if it is…then it certainly isn’t in English…or Gaelic…cos there’s letters in there that don’t exist in the Gaelic alphabet
    so highly doubtful there!
    otherwise…nice list!

  • markishmark
    April 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm

    What about my old high school favorite, Tetrahydrocannabinol?

  • lauren
    April 21st, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    holy sherlockhomes that is a lot of letter’s but can you come up with the spesific name for DNA molecules?? that is what i would like to know

  • DavidCh0
    April 30th, 2008 at 9:03 am

    “The word comprises of 34 letters”; “Mary Poppins, which means good.” And this is tagged “style” on a writing site.

  • BronwynRaeProffit-Higgins
    May 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    This is a wonderful article. Thank you for putting this all together for us! You will do well to ignore the few negative, fault-finding posters, it appears they didn’t get the point.

  • Speed Limit
    May 10th, 2008 at 12:52 am

    DNA stands for deoxyribonucleic acid.

  • Glynis
    May 21st, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    I love it! Number 5 was a horrible nursing mock final exam question in the 1980s my tutour /tutor loved to put in as a ‘make you sweat’ question. Thanks for the memory!

  • anika29
    May 31st, 2008 at 8:49 am

    amazing! where did you get these words and how is it pronounced?

  • Sathish kumar
    June 10th, 2008 at 1:00 am

    Making astonished… Interesting…

  • SpiderPig
    August 26th, 2008 at 5:55 am

    I had #6 for spelling test in yr 3
    believe it OR not
    i was the only one who got it right

  • Ichio
    September 7th, 2008 at 12:58 am

    ???this is… um… interesting… i could only pronounce Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops =^.^=
    i couldnt pronounce (THESE WORDS AREN’T IN DICTIONARIES!!!)
    I

  • Dmitry
    September 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Hi guys! I’m from Russia (student of linguistic department, 2-nd course & pardon my English). So I’d like to tell you about russian biggest world…..though…I’m not sure that the russian letters may be seen…

  • Dmitry
    September 20th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    It is me again (russian). I found incorrect information, supposedly, that Guinness Book told russian biggest word is «рентгеноэлектрокардиографический» (32-by russian). But it is not so! Because the biggest russian word - “уплощенно-пинакоидально-ромбоэдрический” (37 words)-it’s a geological term. But, look deeper - the real & decisive importance word in russian language - it is what it means to understanding. We have classic russian proverb: “brevity is the soul of wit”…
    No comment yet.)))

  • Dieter Hentz
    November 12th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

    funny

  • johnny yuma
    November 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    My tongue isn’t long enough to say the majority of these. It just won’t wrap around them if you know what I mean.
    Great piece of writing!
    Damon/johnny yuma

  • maddie
    November 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm

    i am game enough to try hard words and i am 12 but not game enough to try the 1,909 letter word.

  • brittany
    November 23rd, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    i have tried 8 of your words they are very hard but i cant spell the word it. kidding. not game enough to try long words

  • amy
    November 23rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    brittany isn’t that good at spelling but i am. tried one of the words i no how to spell antidisestblishmentarianisms

  • Matt H
    December 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    This is maybe the funniest English-related thing I have ever read! Thanks, I got many laughs!

    -Matt

  • kenny
    February 8th, 2009 at 1:04 am

  • Sarah
    March 7th, 2009 at 11:57 pm

    Love ‘em!

  • japanese words
    March 18th, 2009 at 1:02 am

    Good list, but I don’t think I will be adding any of these to my vocabulary any time soon.

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