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What is the longest word in English?

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Question added by Abeer AlSayed , Senior Media Relations Officer , Jordan River Foundation
Date Posted: 2016/01/03

smiles - it it one mile between two S's 

there are other longer, but this one is the only one that makes part of english dictionaires "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

joeffrey dones
by joeffrey dones , Database Support Analyst 2 , IMS HEalth

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Meshari AL-Nofaee
by Meshari AL-Nofaee , Executive Representative of Market and Customer Services , SABIC
Rasha Maarabouni
by Rasha Maarabouni , Executive Registrar , Lebanese International University

The longest word in the English language  is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

Ahmad Saleh
by Ahmad Saleh , Part-time English Teacher , ITA

I used to think that "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" is the longest word in English, but I have found even a longer word. It is the chemical name for "titin" , and it would be ridiculous to copy and paste the  word which has more than one hundred thousand letters, so I will just  paste a small part of it:

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Pradeep Sharma
by Pradeep Sharma , English Language Training Instructor , King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah (KSA)

Pedro Brites is right.

I thought of

antidisestablishmentarianism,

but that is shorter than the word given by Pedro.

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