Longest english words
Posted by Ramkumar on July 16, 2009
13. Honorificabilitudin ita – Tibus (27 letters)
The word occurs in Shakespeare’s play Love’s Labour’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.
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.
12. Antidisestablishmen tarianism(28 letters)
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)”.It is said to have been used once by British Prime Minister WilliamEwart Gladstone (1809 – 1898).
11. Floccinaucinihilipi pification (29 letters)
This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless”.
10. Supercalifragilisti ceplalidocious (34 letters)
From the movie Mary Poppins. It means “god”.
9. Praetertranssubstan tiationalistical ly (37 letters)
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.
8. Hepaticocholecystos tcholecystentero stomy(40 letters)
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, andbetween the intestine and he gall bladder, on the other”.
7. Pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosts(45 letters)
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.
6. Antipericatametaana parcircumvolutio rectumgustpoopsof the coprofied (50 letters)
The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais.
5. Osseocarnisanguineo viscericartilagi ninervomedullary(51 letters)
A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock.
4. Aequeosalinocalcali noceraceoalumino scupreovitriolic(52 letters)
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).
3.Bababadalgharaght akamminapronnkon nbronntonnepronn t-uonnthunntrovarrhou nawnskawntoohooh oordeenenthurnuk(100 letters)
This word is on the first pate of Finegans Wake by James Joyce, and is a symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. (Other 100-letter words appear throughout the book.)
2. Lopadotemachoselach ogaleokranioleip sanodrimhypotrim -matosilphiparaomeli tokatakechymenok ichlepikossyphop hat-toperisteralektryon optekephalliokig lopeleiolagoiosi raiobaph-etraganopterygon (182 letters)
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-filletomul leti-turboto- cranio-morselo-pickleo-acido- silphio-honeyo- poured on the top of theouzelo-throstleo -cushato- culvero-roasting o- marrowo-dippero- levereto- syrupo-gibleto- wings.
1. (3,600 letters)
A chemical name describing bovine NADP – specific glutamate dehydrogenase, which contains 500 amino acids.

English tutor said
Nice list, will be giving this to my students to learn!