The Longest Words in English Most English words longer than about 15-20 letters are scientific, meaningless, or highly specialized, and they tend to be formed byaffixation. This is the act or process of addingaffixesto a base word to produce a derivative word—in the wordaffixation, for inst...
” has two major honors to its name. Firstly, it is the longest word to ever appear in the works of William Shakespeare. Billy the Bard only ever used it once, in his playLove’s Labour’s Lost(1590s). Secondly,honorificabilitudinitatibusis the longest English word wherein the consonant...
The longest word in English 英语中最长的单词In an English class, all of the students are listening to their teacher carefully. The teacher Smile is very happy. She takes out a picture. " What are the boys doing ?”she asks .“They are catching fish ,”the students answer.!“YesThey ar...
Antidisestablishmentarianism:This is the longest non-coined and non-technical English word which was found in 19th to oppose the ‘disestablishment of the Church of England as the state church of England’. Every word in English language is interesting if it is used according to the rules of...
②Dictionaries should not be indiscriminate collections of word information. ③The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who comes within range and, of course, with all degrees of tentativeness. (2009) ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook waiting list Thesaurus Medical Acronyms Wikipedia waiting list n. A list of persons waiting, as for an appointment or filling a vacancy. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyri...
Stewardessesis the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. "No." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. William Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words, includingbedazzled,assassination, andswagger. A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter of the alph...
It is one of the most notable religious buildings in the United Kingdom and has been the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English and, later, British monarchs. Between 1540 and 1556 the abbey had the status of a cathedral. Since 1560, however, the bu...
* The Internet was one ofthemostimportantinventionsofthe1960s. (p. 61 d 3) *The shortest placenames only have one letter. (p.61 a) *South Africahasthe most official languagesintheworld. (p.61 a) *The longest wordintheEnglish language is dispercombobulation. (p.61 a) -Untrue *The mos...
of the GSL, despite the latter having almost twice as many word families, supporting the idea that the 2K has low range and frequency in some academic disciplines, and that studying the GSL before the AWL may not be the best preparation for students of academic English across all disciplines...