Titin is often considered the longest word in the English language. As it'* the largest known protein, it has the longest chemical name. This is the chemical name. 189,819 letters long.


EDIT - posted a link instead.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...3221628AAxlNn5

seems like it repeats itself

yeah so many duplicate or similar words

dumb

When I first saw the title, I thought maybe you had some photos of something slightly more interesting than a "Sit-in."

That'* a word made out of thousands of words. No fair.

IIRC.........

The longest usable word currently is antidisestablishmentarianism

pneumonoultramicrosopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: a lung disease caused by the inhalation of silicate or very fine quartz dust.


^that is the longest word in the english language. boo on anyone that thinks its antidisestablishmentarianism or, god forbid, supercalifragilisticexpialidoscious (sp?). neither are longer than pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and the latter isnt even a word (regardless of what oxford has to say)

its a giant crossword puzzle