Thread: Which russian word is the longest?

Just based on the number of letters.

thank you

In french it is "anticonstitutionnellement" which is an adverb and means "against the constitution".

I don't know the longest word in english either.

The longest word (not scientific or medical term)

antidisestablishmentarianism - opposing the seperation of the church and state

My favourite 'everyday' long Russian word is probably достопримечательностями
преподавательницами also amuses me for some reason.
Sure there's zillions of much longer ones though.

By the way the longest russian abbreviation is НИИОМТПЛАБОПАРМБЕТЖЕЛБЕТРАБСБОРМОНИМОНКОНОТДТЕХСТРОМОНТ (55 letters).

It stands for "Научно-исследовательская лаборатория операций по армированию бетона и железобетонных работ по сооружению сборно-монолитных и монолитных конструкций отдела технологии строительно-монтажного управления" (Краткий словарь советской терминологии).

That reminds me. When I was a student I learnt off by heart - Taumatawhakatang­ihangakoauauot­amateaturipukaka ­pikimaunga­horonuku­pokaiwhenuak­itanatahu, which is a hill in New Zealand. I have never forgotten it. Comes in very handy. It was in this song - still is

Quantum Jump - The Lone Ranger
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Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo-
tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro-
nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Me Tonto Kimosabi
Me go and catchee baddy
Find him by the shady water
Deep within Apache forest
Find him scalp him eat him up for breakfast
Real good friend to Kimosabi
Save another silver bullet
Hi ho Silver away
Ride into tomorrow today
But who was that masked man you say
That was the Lone Ranger
Fill up pipe of peace for Tonto
Kimosabi friend and brother
He smoke pipe of peace with Tonto
Put his mask on back to fronto
Tonto fall about with laughter
He a head our great white brother
Even pass a tote to Silver
Mask man very untogether
Hi ho Silver away
Ride into tomorrow today
But who was that masked man you say
That was the Lone Ranger
Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauo-
tamateaturipukakapikimaungahoro-
nukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Tonto know that Kimosabi
Never ever have a woman
Tonto sometime stop and wonder
What the trip with the great white brother
Maybe masked man he a poofter
Try it on with surly Tonto
Let me say to mister lawman
Tonto doesn't mind
Hi ho Silver away
Ride into tomorrow today
But who was that masked man you say
That was the Lone Ranger

I though antidisestablishmenterranism meant against the church of England?

Anyway, my favorites are неудовлетборительно и хлопчатобумажная....

My favorite long word is a Hawaiian fish name:
Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.

I know this ones "medical", but:


Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia = the fear of long words

That one is silly, especially since hippo means horse

anyway for medical ones, I always heard:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Originally Posted by nightfaerie

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia = the fear of long words

Actaully quoted in http://dictionary.reference.com/sear...daliophobia%20 - usually pretty reliable.

This is better - http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hippop...ppedaliophobia

Mike, I try to choose my words carefully!
I said it was silly, not wrong (this because I certainly I couldn't be bothered to check it, and in any case vaguely remembered it). I still don't understand what horses have to do with it, though

Originally Posted by waxwing

I said it was silly, not wrong

I didn't really know what you meant waxwing. I did think it rather an unlikely word, so thought I'd check it out. But now you come to mention it, how is a word 'silly'? I've seen some words referred to as 'stupid'? Always makes me laugh when I see that
For my money it's great to have a really long word that means a 'fear of long words', even if it leaves something to be desired in the etymology department - makes life worth living

переосвидетельствование - reexamination

акклиматизироваться - to acclimate oneself

некредитоспособность - insolvent

антиконституционный - unconstitutional

антидемократический - anti-democratic

I like the finnish: "j

Ha ha, thanks for sharing Zhenya. I

In Hungarian the longest word is infinite, because when they write numbers like "nineteen thousand and twenty two" they do it like this: "nineteenthousandtwentyone". The longest Hungarian word is as long as the biggest number.

both finnish and swedish does that to....

Originally Posted by Zhenya

both finnish and swedish does that to....

does that to what?

put numberwords together...