If you love to play word game or scrabble, your vocabulary must be good. The second edition of the current 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words that you can use while playing. Making some lengthy and unusual word that people have probably not heard of while you play can be your ticket to victory. But have you ever thought how many words are there that use maybe more than 30 letters of the alphabets? They mostly refer to medicine or chemistry.
So here we have made a list of some of the longest words in English language that you may have never heard of!
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1. Otorhinolaryngological (22 letters)
The branch of medical science deals with the treatment of head, neck, ear, throat and nose disorders.
2. Thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters)
The process of cutting out Thyroid and Parathyroid glands.
3. Radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters)
Immunoelectrophoresis (Electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies) using antigens or antibodies labelled with radioisotopes.
4. Honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters)
This is the longest word ever applied by Shakespeare which stands for “The state of being able to achieve honours”.
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5. Antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)
Evolved in 1838 in Britain, it signifies opposition to proposals for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
6. Floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)
The process of determining that something is absolutely valueless.
7. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)
A genetic disorder that closely imitates the indications but not the effects of pseudohypoparathyroidism and, thus it has mild or no manifestations of hypoparathyroidism or tetanic convulsions.
8. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)
Something to say when you have nothing to say.
9. Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies (39 letters)
Surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
10. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
Lung disease caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust.
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