10 longest words in the english language

Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagininervomedullary

A team that describes the structure of the human body; it occurs in Heading Hall (1861), a novel by Thomas Love Peacock.

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminoscupreovitriolic

Describes the composition of the spa wters at Bristol, in Gloucestershire, England. The word was coined by an English medical writer, Dr. Edward Strother

Hepaticocholecystostcholecystenterostomy

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".

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosts

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.

Supercalifragilisticeplalidocious

From the movie Mary Poppins. It means "god".

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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".

Antipericatametaanaparcircumvolutiorectumgustpoops of the coprofied

The title of a book on a shelf in a library in the classic ribald work Gargantua and Pantagruel, by Francois Rabelais.

Floccinaucinihilipipification

This is found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and means "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless"

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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.

Praetertranssubstantiationalistically

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.