Longest and weirdest words
Next time you need a password no one else will check you could try one of these:
1) Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
It’s a ‘contrived’ word – for an unpleasant lung disease usually known as silicosis. (The Oxford Dictionaries define it as "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
2) Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
The fear of long words…. Yes, really. (Also known as Sesquipedalophobia – which is hardly a short word.) Healthline
3) Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
The longest uncontrived word (It’s an inherited thyroid disorder.) Wikipedia
Science and medicine have more than their fair share of weighty words.
4) Floccinaucinihilipilification
The longest unchallenged nontechnical word that not all directories recognize, that including Merriam-Webster. According to alternative sources, floccinaucinihilipilification is the act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless. Oftentimes, it is used in a humorous way or on quiz shows.
5) If you can’t decide what to eat in a restaurant, you could always ask for Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
(English translation of λοπαδο¬τεμαχο¬σελαχο¬γαλεο¬κρανιο¬λειψανο¬δριμ¬υπο¬τριμματο¬σιλφιο-καραβο¬μελιτο¬κατακεχυ¬μενο¬κιχλ¬επι¬κοσσυφο¬φαττο¬περιστερ¬αλεκτρυον¬οπτο¬κεφαλλιο¬κιγκλο-πελειο¬λαγῳο¬σιραιο¬βαφη¬τραγανο¬πτερύγων)
It's a fictional recipe used by Aristophanes, comprising 16 ingredients including several fish (including rotting shark’s head, meat from various birds and wine. Wikipedia
And finally, if you have 3 hours or so to spare – check out the pronunciation of the chemical name of titin, the largest know protein…it’s 189819 characters.
Next time you go to the pub quiz/online quiz or word game think of the words below.
A
word with three lots of double letters
Bookkeeper – has three sets of double letters – O, then K, then E. Also bookkeeping
Unusual
words - try to sneak these into
conversation.
Expergefactor
– is
anything that wakes you up. An alarm clock, a cockerel crowing, the neighbours
returning from a night out at 4am…
Zwodder
– a
drowsy and stupid state of body and mind. If you come back from that late
night/early morning after a night of ale-passion (used in the old way to mean
suffering not the modern way of lustful) you may suffer zerostomia (dry
mouth) and possibly even obdormition (having fallen asleep on your arm). You
may feel lucifugous too (‘fleeing the light’), after all the jactating
you did in bed. No – it doesn’t mean something rude….
Sesquipedalianism – the tendency to use long words…. I have this.
Words
without vowels:
By
Crypt
Fly
Flyby
Glycyl
Gypsy
Hymns
Hmm
Lynx
Myrrh
Myth
My
Nymphs
Nymphly
(another usage of nymph-like)
Psst
(contained in OED)
Pygmy
Rhythms
Shh
Shy
Shyly
Scry
Shy
Sky
Sync
Try
Trysts
Wry/Wryly
Xyst (a long and open portico in a gymnasium (Greek)
Without
y as a substitute vowel-
(These are of Welsh Origin – so don’t count as strictly English words). Welsh uses ‘w’ as a vowel sound
Crwth
(a
celtic stringed instrument)
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/crwth
Cwtch (a shed, cuddle or hiding place)
And
for a word with ONLY vowels, you could try Euouae – a
musical term from medieval times.
Uncopyrightable is an isogram. That
is a word that has no repeated letters. Another is Subdermatoglyphic
If you would like some more weird words check out this link https://www.grammarly.com/blog/14-of-the-longest-words-in-english/
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cootch
https://wordfinder.yourdictionary.com/blog/21-english-words-without-vowels/
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-without-vowels.htm
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