Miscellaneous Words Of the English Language

The longest English word that does not contain the letter 'e' is floccinaucinihilipilification at 29 letters.

Aegilops, 8 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in alphabetical order.

Spoonfeed, 9 letters long, is the longest word with its letters arranged in reverse alphabetical order.

CIMICIC and CIMICID, each 7 letters long, are the longest words that are exclusively made up of Roman numerals when written in upper case.

Among words consisting of only Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2,012).

Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightable, each 15 letters long, are the longest words in which no letter appears more than once.

Unprosperousness, 16 letters long, is the longest word in which each letter occurs at least twice.

Esophagographers, 16 letter long, is the longest word in which each of its letters occurs twice.

 Discrete - discreet is the longest homophonic anagram (2 similarly pronounced words that are spelled differently but sound the same and are composed of the same letters).

Redivider is the longest common palindromic word (a word reading the same backwards and forwards).

The longest words that are reverse images of each other are stressed and desserts.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis a supposed lung disease (45 letters) is the longest word in English language.

Hotshots consists of the same four letters repeated. 

Abcaree, Abchalazal, Abcoulomb, crab cake, dabchick and drab cloth are among the only words in the English language that contain 'abc'.

Hydroxyzine and xyzzor are the only words that contain 'xyz'.

Tmesis is the only English word beginning with 'tm'.

The longest alphabetical sequences to appear in English words are 'mnop' and 'rstu'. 'Mnop' appears in such words as gymnopaedic, gymnophiona, gymnoplast, limnophilous, prumnopitys, semnopithecus, somnopathy and thamnophile. 'Rstu' appears in such words as overstudy, overstuff, superstud and understudy.

You and ewe are pronounced the same but have no letters in common. Eye and I is another such pair. Oh and eau is another.

Sub bookkeeper is the only English word with four pairs of double letters in a row. 

Assessee and keelless are the shortest words with three pairs of double letters. Cooee is the shortest word with two double letters.

Underfund and underground are the only two English words that start and finish with 'und'.

Dreamt is the only common English word ending in mt. 

Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous are the only English words ending in -dous.

The word queue is the only one in the English language that is still pronounced the same when the last four letters are removed.

source: [http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm#Miscellaneous]

---

Quote Of The Day:

"Empty Pockets teaches you a million things in life…But Full Pockets spoils you in a million ways"

---

Word Of the Day:

Arcadian (noun) - relating to a paradise in the country

e.g. Many town-dwellers dream of leading Arcadian existence.

---