What’s the longest word in the dictionary? It’s PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis was created by Everett M. Smith in 1935 and was recognized as as a 45 letter word in the New York Herald Tribune which means ‘a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.’
The 2nd Longest Word is a 37 letter word,HEPATICOCHOLANGIOCHOLECYSTENTEROSTOMIES which means a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder. This is the longest word in Gould’s Medical Dictionary.
The 2nd Longest Word is SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS, a song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins. It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
“But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin’ nose,
The biggest word you ever ‘eard,
And this is ‘ow it goes:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”
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