The Most Horrible English Words

1. Honorificabilitudinitatibus

   The word consists of 27 letters. This word appeared in the script of Shakespeare titled “Love's Labour's Lost”, which means “invincible glorious.”

2. Antidisestablishmentarianism

   The word consists of 28 letters. This word means “opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England” as explained in Dictionary.com. It has been quoted once by the British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, 1809- 1898.

3. Floccinaucihihilipilification

   The word comprises of 29 letters. It means “act or habit to deny the value of some particular things.”

4. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

   The word comprises of 34 letters. This word appeared in a movie called “Mary Poppins”, which means “good.”

5. Hepaticocholecystostcholecystntenterostomy

   The word consists of 42 letters. It appears in the “Medical Dictionary” edited by Gao De as a surgical terminology, which refers to indirect artificial tube surgery between the intestine and gallbladder or in the gallbladder and bile duct.

6. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

   The word comprises of 45 letters. It appears in the eighth edition of Webster dictionary, which means “pneumoconiosis disease caused by inhaling small particles of quartzite.” Miners are particularly vulnerable to this disease.

7. Antipericatametaanaparcircum -
   volutiorectumgustpoops of the Coprofied

   The word consists of 50 letters. There is a display of one French writer's ancient story in a library shelf, with this long English word as its book title.

8. Osseocaynisanguineovisceri -
   cartilagininervomedullary

   The word consists of 51 letters. This is a terminology related to anatomy. It appeared in a novel called “Headlong Hall” written by an English writer, 1785-1866.

9. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoa -
   luminosocupreovitriolie

   The word consists of 52 letters. This word was invented by the British Medical author, Dr. Edward Strother, 1675-1737. It is used to refer to the composition of mineral water found in England.

10. Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronn -
    konnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntro -
    varrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk

    The word of consists of 100 letters. It appeared in the book titled “Finnegan wake” written by Irish author, Andean James Joyce, 1882- 1942. This word refers to the downfall of Adam and Eve.

11. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranio -
    leipsanodrimhypotrimmatosi -
    lphioparamelitokatakechymenokich -
    lepikossyphophattoperisteralektr -
    yonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosi -
    raiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon

    The word consists of 182 letters. This English word is derived from the Greece word, originating from the drama script of comedy titled “ecclesiazusae” written by a Greek writer, Aristophanes, 448- 385. It refers to spicy foods that cooked from the remaining vegetables and beef.
12. This word is terribly long in its length as it comprises of 1913 letters as follow:

    Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosy -
    lglutamylserylleucylphenylalanylalanylglutaminy -
    lleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycyla -
    lanylphenylalanylvalylprolyphenylalanYlvalythre -
    onylleucylglycylaspartylprolylglycylisoleucylg -
    lutamylglutaminylsErylleucyllysylisoleucy -
    laspartylthreonylleucylIsoleucylglutamy -
    lalanylglycylalanylasparthlalanylleucylg -
    lutamylleucylglycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylse -
    Rylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylp -
    RolylthreOnylisoleucylglutaminylasPfraginylal -
    anylthreonylleucylarfinylalanylphenylalanylalany -
    lalanylglycylvalythreonylprolylalanylglutaminy -
    lcysteinylphenylalanylglutamylmethionylleucy -
    lalanylleuOylisoleucylarginylglutaminy -
    llysyhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylproly -
    lisoleucylglycylleucylmethionyltyrosylalany -
    lasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanylasparaginy -
    llysyglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalany -
    lthrosylalanylglutaminylcsteinylglutamyllysylva -
    lylglycylvalylaspartylserylvalylleucylvalylalny -
    laspartylvalylprolylvalylglUtaminylglutamylsery -
    lalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminylalany -
    lalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginyvalylalany -
    lprolylisoleucylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucy -
    lphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartylalany -
    laspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginy -
    lglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycy -
    larginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrOsylleucyl -
    leucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreony -
    lglycylalanylglutamYlasparainylarginylalany -
    lalanylleucylprolylleucylasparaginylhistidy -
    lleucylValylalanyllysylleucyllysylglutamy -
    ltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylpro -
    lylleucylglutaminylglgycylphenylalanylglycy -
    lisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminy -
    lvalyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalany -
    lglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylsery -
    lglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoIeucy -
    lisoleucylglutamylglutaminylHistidylasparaginy -
    liSoleucylglutamylprolylglutamyllysylmethionyl -
    leucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenylalanyl -
    calylglutaminylprolylmethionlysylalanylalanylt -
    hreonylarginylserine.

    The above word refers to "Tryptophan synthase a protein", a chemical name for a substance that contains 267 kinds of amino acid enzymes.

Source Writinghood

English is a messed up language

Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in
eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in
pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French
fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which
aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we
find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and
a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers
don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is
teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese.
So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one
amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single
annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all
but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian
eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a
letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed
to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people
recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send
cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on
driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise
man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be
opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can
the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another.

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when
they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a
strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love?
Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled,
ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who ARE spring
chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which
your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a
form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by
going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects
the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race
at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I
wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I
end it

-Scavenger

Selected on 03.12.2007

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