Long words

[Alden]

I personally am enamored with:

Sentimentalization, substitutablility, ranunculaceous, proboscidiferous, and lectisternium.

Y'all got any favorites?

[truthman]

transubstantiation

but then that really doesn't have anything to do with archaeology but more with cannibalism

truthman

[Solly]

smiles is the longest word I like, since there is a mile between the first and last letter. :rofl:

[GrayPilgrim]

And I though infralapsarianism was a fun word, but it only has one lap between the beginning and end.

[Solly]

and it ends in arianism. Bad doctrine, see.

[GrayPilgrim]

Guess your right ;)

[Lizard]

Originally posted by Solly
smiles is the longest word I like, since there is a mile between the first and last letter. :rofl:

:hrm:

[Patroclus]

I like "Baldersnatch." It sounds comical, but it is oh, so wrong!

[Revolg]

Can't wait to get to full leveled debates on the crazy ideas within Creation and Evolution again! Even though I didn't participate as much. :hi:

[$cirisme]

Originally posted by Revolg
Can't wait to get to full leveled debates on the crazy ideas within Creation and Evolution again! Even though I didn't participate as much. :hi:

I used to be a big evolutionist debator.

I'm looking forward to (hopefully) getting into that again. :thumb:

[MJCoate]

How about: antidisestablishmentariansim ?
I don't know if it would count, since it was popular only in the sixties.

[Alden]

I will top you all!!:p
Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg-reference to a lake near webster, mass

lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilph-ioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopelei olagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon- 189 letters; a ghoulash composed of all the leftovers from the meals of the leftovers from the meals of the last two weeks from Aristophanes' The Ecclesiaszusae.

And yes, these are real. For all the unbelievers, check out:

Josefa Heifetz Byrne, Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words. Secaucus, NJ: University Books, 1974;

[Yog^sothoth]

uniformitarianism
catastophism - seems small by comparison.

i'll give you a nickle if ya guess what they are!:thumb:

[Em7add11]

There's also:
Pnuemenoultamicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis

I'm not 100% sure on the spelling, cause the dictionary that I found that word in has long since fallen apart and been thrown away.

It's a disease similar to black-lung, only it's caused by microscopic bits of volcanic ash after an eruption. *cough*

[Pate]

"Epiphenomenalism" is one of my favourites. :)

"Anti-supernaturalistic presupposition" is also a good term to use in chat debates etc.

[uber_loser]

I'm reminded of when I saw a gameshow with highschool students. The question was "what does T.N.T. stand for?" They of course replied " Turner Network Televiesion" :no: which leads me to my favorite long word trinitrotoluene which is of course what T.N.T. really stands for.:thumb:

[Revolg]

Ornithological - Shape of bird...

Sorry, I don't know many long words.. What about Yeshua? haha

[Bill the Cat]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch

This is the name of a town in North Wales. The name translates as "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave" in Welsh, has long claimed the fame of having the longest name in the world. However, there is a hill in New Zealand called:

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu
This Maori mouthful translates into English as "the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as 'landeater,' played his flute to his loved one." I consider this a lean short-story, however, and have serious reservations about giving New Zealand the gold since local history has it that the parts about the knees and climbing mountains were recently added just to pull ahead of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch. But you may count it if you like now that Gavin Kingsley has offered photographic evidence of this claim, too.

However, before you make up your mind, consider the favorite of the Guinness Book of Records, the name of Bangkok (Krungthep) in Thai:

Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyaya-
mahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarn-
amornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit

The translation here is pretty much the unabridged history of the city rather than a word.

krungthep mahanakhon
The land of angels, the great city of

amorn rattanakosin
immortality, various of devine gems,

mahintara yudthaya mahadilok pohp
the great angelic land unconquerable,

noparat rajathanee bureerom
land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital,

udomrajniwes mahasatarn
place of the grand royal palace,

amorn pimarn avaltarnsatit
forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits,

sakatattiya visanukram prasit
predestined and created by the highest devas.

[truthman]

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION

Definition = The estimation of something as valueless

as in: The FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION process of this thread.

[Chuck Lee]

Chemiosmotic phosphorylation.

It's actually a fairly common Biology term. Biologists need to learn to keep terms simple, like physicists.

[Roy]

I will top you all

Not enough time to type the really sesquipedalian ones? Suffering from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia? Not wishing to obtain honorificabilitudinitatibus? Depressed by thoughts of pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? Or too busy banging your zzxjoanw?

Roy (who has a slight yearning to outdo Solly as well, but can't work out how...)

[Roy]

Chemiosmotic phosphorylation.

It's actually a fairly common Biology term. Biologists need to learn to keep terms simple, like physicists.

If I was a physicist I'd resent that remark.

Roy

[Chuck Lee]

If I was a physicist I'd resent that remark.


Physicists like to keep things simple, if sometimes weird. Take quarks for example. TYpes of quarks? Charmed, up, down...

I'm trying to think of complicated physics terms and drawing blanks. Complicated formulae yes, terms no.