Long Words

[Josh]

Post words consisting of 13 letters or more here.

I'll start out with:

incommunicado

[RJD]

antidisestablishmentarianism*



*opposition to the seperation of church and state

[hypotenuse]

paleontologically

[Josh]

Logizomechanophobia*

*Fear of computers

[Gregory]

Originally posted by RJD
antidisestablishmentarianism*



*opposition to the seperation of church and state

PSEUDOantidisestablishmentarianism*

*false opposition to the seperation of church and state

:D

[jscott]

Are double negatives allowed in a word? Oh well who cares.:D

ANTIpseudoantidisestablishmentarianism

opposition against false opposition against seperation of church and state.

[Josh]

OK, this could go on forever. Even though I do like that jscott....

[RJD]

You guys are why so many people suffer from ephebiphobia. ;)

[Gregory]

antipseudoantipseudoantipseudoantipseudoantidisestablishmentarianism

[Josh]

Wow, that's like a quadruple negative...

Time for a NEW word.

[Gregory]

augmentation...s
:D

[jscott]

Originally posted by Gregory
antipseudoantipseudoantipseudoantipseudoantidisestablishmentarianism

why am I reminded of Algebra?

anyway, augmentationing

[RJD]

PSEUDOaugmentation. :D

[Gregory]

antipseudoaugmentation

[Blueangel]

Pedestrianisation

[Horus_Kol]

excommunications

[AaronCampbell]

A couple to chew on:
Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (http://nerdparadise.com/misc/longwords/info.php?word=Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic)
Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedullary (http://nerdparadise.com/misc/longwords/info.php?word=Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedullary)
and

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (http://nerdparadise.com/misc/longwords/info.php?word=Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis)

btw, pseudo anything should at the least be hyphenated, but is probably 2 words.

[jscott]

you win.:o

[Josh]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia*

*The fear of Long Words

[Josh]

Didaskaleinophobia*

*the fear of school

[AaronCampbell]

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies (http://nerdparadise.com/misc/longwords/info.php?word=Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies)

[AaronCampbell]

Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine (http://nerdparadise.com/misc/longwords/info.php?word=Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine) *

TNT :-)

[Horus_Kol]

Thats not TNT - TNT is Tri-Nitro-Toluene - I know, I made some...


Tridekavernophobia - fear of Friday the 13th! =:O

[jscott]

You made some? Cool! I need some for the H bomb Im making. I found some uranium ore on Ebay, and now all I need is some TNT to set off the chain reaction or however h bombs work.

[jscott]

Never mind. I figure dry ice would work just as well. But if you dont mind giving the recipie for future knowledge any way...

[Horus_Kol]

it's not too difficult.

take some Toluene, and some Nitric Acid (weak solution), and heat. The higher you heat it too, the more nitrified the Toluene gets. at about 55°C, it becomes tri-nitrated.

actually, I lied. We made Tri-Nitro-Benzene. Someone saw the experiment on the syllabus and replaced Benzene with Toluene, because the idea of 16 year olds making TNT scared them a little.

Funny thing is, Benzene is not allowed in schools anymore (carcinogenic), so they're back to using Toluene. :)


you really would want something else as the detonator in a a-bomb. TNT is very unstable, and if not stored correctly can spontaneously explode.

[Josh]

Nucleomituphobia - The fear of nuclear weapons

[AaronCampbell]

turns out that you're right... Trinitrophenylmethylnitramine is better than tnt...more stable during storage, and more powerful.

http://users.skynet.be/jeeper/page57.html

Aaron

[caedes]

Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

A word coined by 16th century medical writer Edward Strother to describe the spa waters at Bath, England

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

The Surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
The longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary

Beat that!

[caedes]

oh yeah, and

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane

DDT

[AaronCampbell]

Originally posted by caedes
Aequeosalinocalcalinosetaceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

A word coined by 16th century medical writer Edward Strother to describe the spa waters at Bath, England

Hepaticocholangiocholecystenterostomies

The Surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
The longest word in Gould's Medical Dictionary

Beat that!

Hmmm...These were already posted...by me. Did you read the thread?

[caedes]

no actually i didn't, i just went to google searched for 'long words' and put in a few...

oh well :D

[Jake]

I have one to beat you all!! Take this!:

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen-
ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta-
mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre-
onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta-
minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu-
cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle-
ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu-
celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa-
raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal-
anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen-
ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl-
glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc-
ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl-
valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut-
amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll-
ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart-
ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny-
lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp-
araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei-
nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle-
ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin-
ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla-
nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan-
yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro-
lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls-
erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol-
eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse-
rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta-
mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0
tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny-
lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo-
nylarginylserine.

[Horus_Kol]

i don't think it counts if you make them up.

i know that chemicals can have long names, but you actually missed out some important information that would be in that name - like numbers denoting where the alkyl groups are attached on the chain.

[Jake]

Hey I didnt make it up...

[Gregory]

ah, jake, not fair game.

i posted one similar and they said it had to be in the dictionary :(

[Jake]

IT WOULD BE:(

But the money hungry publishers just dont want to waste a page on it.

[Horus_Kol]

What you have described is a protein chain - and it would never be called that - it would have a simpler name.

all you have done is strung a load of amino acids together and inserted some alkyl groups - again you haven't specified where these alkyl groups are attached - so you haven't even got that bit right.