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What is the longest REAL word you know?

Not counting Mary Poppins' supercalifrajalisticexpialidocious.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    antidisestablishmentarianism

    And no, you can't pluralise it!

    Source(s): Retired Technical Author.
  • 1 decade ago

    The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word which refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano. Research has discovered that this word was originally a hoax; medically, it is the same as silicosis. It has since been used in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim

  • 1 decade ago

    Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis- A lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust.

  • 1 decade ago

    pseudocryptoantidisestablis hmentarianists

    (I've added a space to circumvent that STOOP-IT yahoo limit to the number of characters it will display in a word)

    This word refers to people who pretend to secretly support antidisestablishmentarianism, but in reality don't.

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