misskriss 0 #26 August 7, 2003 QuoteDiscombobulate I have to say that word is OVERUSED in my house. Ever since one of the kids learned it a long time ago all I hear is... " Mommy..I'm discombobulated.." " Mommy.....she's acting all discombobulated.." It still cracks me up though.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #27 August 7, 2003 "No shit?!" Most underused words when communicating with Ivan. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beavdog 0 #28 August 7, 2003 lmfao Here's to the Breezes that blows through the Trezzez..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sebazz1 2 #29 August 7, 2003 Rad as in radical Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beavdog 0 #30 August 7, 2003 no....its the longest non scientific or medical...the longest word is the second that I posted Here's to the Breezes that blows through the Trezzez..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #31 August 7, 2003 palimpsest \PAL-imp-sest\, noun: 1. A manuscript, usually of papyrus or parchment, on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible. 2. An object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent beneath its surface Hmmm...I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca 0 #32 August 7, 2003 QuoteIsn't that also the longest word in the English language? According to an unverified source, the longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and refers to a specific part of DNA. Now, if that's true, I'm not sure it could even qualify as a word. Shouldn't being able to actually use or say a word be a requirement for calling it a word? You know, the more I think about it- seems like BS to me. I'll be right back... Huh. Waddya know... QuoteTechnical terms The technical term for "Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Stain" is the current official longest word: Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinylthreonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyltryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine Another word, a scientific name for tryptophan synthetase, which is made up of 267 amino acids, has appeared written down a number of times and has 1,909 letters. you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #33 August 7, 2003 Longest workds: http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword QuoteFrequently Asked Questions Words What is the longest English word? Printer Friendly Version We do have genuine (if rather obviously deliberate) examples in our files of antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) and floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters), which are listed in some of our larger dictionaries. Other words (mainly technical ones) recorded in the complete Oxford English Dictionary include: otorhinolaryngological (22 letters), immunoelectrophoretically (25 letters), psychophysicotherapeutics (25 letters), thyroparathyroidectomized (25 letters), pneumoencephalographically (26 letters), radioimmunoelectrophoresis (26 letters), psychoneuroendocrinological (27 letters) hepaticocholangiogastrostomy (28 letters), spectrophotofluorometrically (28 letters), pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters). Most of the words which are given as `the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters). In Voltaire's Candide, Pangloss is supposed to have given lectures on metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology (34 letters). In Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel Headlong Hall (1816) there appear two high-flown nonce words (one-off coinages) which describe the human body by stringing together adjectives describing its various tissues. The first is based on Greek words, and the second on the Latin equivalents; they are osteosarchaematosplanchnochondroneuromuelous (44 letters) and osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilaginonervomedullary (51 letters), which translate roughly as `of bone, flesh, blood, organs, gristle, nerve, and marrow'. Some editions of the Guinness Book of Records mention praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters), used in Mark McShane's Untimely Ripped (1963), and aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters), attributed to Dr Edward Strother (1675-1737). This kind of verbal game originates, so far as records attest, with the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, inventor of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land (Nephelokokkygia). The formal names of chemical compounds are almost unlimited in length (for example, aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile, 40 letters), but longer ones tend to be sprinkled with numerals, Roman and Greek letters, and other arcane symbols. Dictionary writers tend to regard such names as `verbal formulae', rather than as English words. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beavdog 0 #34 August 7, 2003 I stand corrected...you are right....HERE IT IS: stands for Tryptophan synthetase A protein Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen- ylalanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylgluta- mylglysylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylyalylthre- onylleucylglcycylaspartylprolylglicylisoleucyglutamylgluta- minlserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleu- cylglutamylalanylglyclyalanylaspartylalanylleucyglutamylle- ucylgluycylisoleucylproluylphenylalanyserylaspartyprolylleu- celalanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisolleucyglutaminylaspa- raginylalanythreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylal- anylglycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphen- ylalanylglglutamylmethionylleucyalanylleucylisoleucylarginyl- glutaminyllysylhistidylprolyuthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleuc- ylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasbaraginylleucyl- valylphenylalanylsparaginyyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglut- amylphenylalanylyltyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyll- ysylvalylglycylvalylspartylserylvalylleucylvallalanylaspart- ylvalylprolylvalvlglutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylpheny- lalalrginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasp- araginylvalylalalprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcystei- nylprolyprolylaspartylalanylaspartylaspartyspartyleucylle- ucylarginylglutaminylisoleucylalanylseryltyroslglycylargin- ylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleucylserylarginlalanyl- glycylvalylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginyla- nylalanylleucylprolylleucylaspaaginylhistidylleucylvalylalan- yllysylleucyllysylglutamyltyrosylasparagimylalanylalanypro- lylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylphenlalanylglycylisoleyucyls- erylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanylalanylisol- eucylalspartylalanylglycylalanylalanylglycylalanylasoleucylse- rylglycylserylalanylisoleucylbalyllysylisoleucylisoleucylgluta- mylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamylpronylglu-0 tamyllysylmethionylluecylalanylalanyoeucyllysylvalylpheny- lalanylvalylglutamilylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreo- nylarginylserine. Here's to the Breezes that blows through the Trezzez..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #35 August 7, 2003 See my above post, this is the last paragraph that talks about these sorts of words. QuoteThe formal names of chemical compounds are almost unlimited in length (for example, aminoheptafluorocyclotetraphosphonitrile, 40 letters), but longer ones tend to be sprinkled with numerals, Roman and Greek letters, and other arcane symbols. Dictionary writers tend to regard such names as `verbal formulae', rather than as English words--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #36 August 7, 2003 Longest word: Dropzonedotcommingpostwhoringblahblahyaddayaddalinguism (55 letters) : The art of posting messages on Dropzone.com __________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
beavdog 0 #37 August 7, 2003 agreed, but still stupifying that someone could come up with a work like that and it has meaning Here's to the Breezes that blows through the Trezzez..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blahr 0 #38 August 7, 2003 exsanguinated To be drained of blood Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
txblondie 0 #39 August 7, 2003 Quoteno....its the longest non scientific or medical...the longest word is the second that I posted Sorry...should have kept reading!!! ***************************************** Blondes do have more fun! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca 0 #40 August 7, 2003 Quoteexsanguinated To be drained of blood Ooh, yeah! I heard that on TV just a few days ago - the show was detailing a crime, and that's what happened to the victim... you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #41 August 7, 2003 Quoteexsanguinated To be drained of blood exsangironated Banned from DZ.comI'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CrazyIvan 0 #42 August 7, 2003 Quoteexsangironated Banned from DZ.com BBWWWAAAAAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!__________________________________________ Blue Skies and May the Force be with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freakous 0 #43 August 7, 2003 QuoteConcatenation Huh, I used this one today!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brokeneagle 0 #44 August 7, 2003 pusillanamous= cowardly add putz= dick Brokeneagle. I'm really very gentle, no matter what my kung-fu teacher says... he is giving me a reputation I do not deserve! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rebecca 0 #45 August 7, 2003 AAAAAGHHHHH! THAT IS SO FUNNY!! Musn't LOL in office.... m u s n ' t.... you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel loquacious?' -- well do you, punk? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kingbunky 3 #46 August 7, 2003 penultimate... means second to last. it's a cool word when you get to use it in a conversation. "Hang on a sec, the young'uns are throwin' beer cans at a golf cart." MB4252 TDS699 killing threads since 2001 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chivo 0 #47 August 7, 2003 QuoteLethologica. Not being able to remember the word you want... Nice! I always forget that word!!! Seriously, I couldn't remember it! LOL! ~Chivo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freakydiver 0 #48 August 7, 2003 "You are a shitty driver, welcome to my .357 Magnum" -- (N.DG) "If all else fails – at least try and look under control." -- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BBKid 0 #49 August 7, 2003 sesquipedalianism The long word for the use of long words. Nick --------------------------- "I've pierced my foot on a spike!!!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobsled92 0 #50 August 7, 2003 Quoteexsanguinated To be drained of blood I was right! You ARE "THE ZODIAC"!_______________________________ If I could be a Super Hero, I chose to be: "GRANT-A-CLAUS". and work 365 days a Year. http://www.hangout.no/speednews/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
