English, with only 26 letters we can create number of words and sentences. Here is a list of some unusual English words.
Longest word with letters in alphabetical order is “Aegilops” which means goat grass
The word with longest run of vowels is “queuing”
Longest word with 180 degree symmetry is “Swims”
Longest words that can be reversed are “stressed & desserts”
Longest word in which all letters appear twice is “Esophagographers”, referring to people experienced in Radiographic visualization of the esophagus using a swallowed radiopaque contrast medium
Longest word which has only one vowel is “strengths”
Longest word that can be typed with the left hand is “stewardesses”
Longest word without a repeating letter is “dermatoglyphics”. This word refers to the surface features of skin, including wrinkles, folds, ridges and furrows.
Word with longest run of consonants is “latchstring”, meaning a cord attached to a latch and often passed through a hole in the door to allow lifting of the latch from the outside
Longest one-syllable word is “screeched”
Longest word to alternate consonants and vowels is “honorificabilitudinitatibus”
very nice research valli,
like it, i knew some of it,
i'm just curious,what's the definition of
“honorificabilitudinitatibus”?
thanks
#2 by B10S, Apr 30, 2008
Honorificabilitudinitatibus is a word used by Costard in act five, scene one of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. It is (in the quotation) the ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours." Appearing only once in Shakespeare's works, it is a hapax legomenon.
Very Nice! I like the list.
#3 by IcyCucky, Apr 30, 2008
Great list..
#4 by slowslow, Apr 30, 2008
Very interesting. I liked it.
#5 by valli, Apr 30, 2008
Thank you for the information, B10S and thank you Nobert, Icy and Slowslow for your appreciation.
#6 by MindIt, May 1, 2008
That's interesting as much as informative.
#7 by Anne Lyken-Garner, May 1, 2008
Great and fun article. This is not a longest word, I just thought of it while reading your article. One word which has all the vowels only once is 'education'(it may also be the longest).
#8 by valli, May 2, 2008
Thanks for the comments MindIt and Anne.
@ Anne
The word I have written is the longest word with just one vowel. Not the longest word with all the vowels just once.
like it, i knew some of it,
i'm just curious,what's the definition of
“honorificabilitudinitatibus”?
thanks