“I know the longest word in the whole English language,” Jimmy tells Jenny by the playground swings. “It’s antidisestablishmentarianism.” Jenny slurps up the last of her juice box, unimpressed. “Is ...

Back in grade school, words like "onomatopoeia" and "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" seemed insanely complicated and long. Surprisingly, neither of these is the ...

What is wrong with the English language? I know it’s one of the most difficult languages to learn because it’s made entirely out of exceptions and we refuse to acknowledge the rest of the planet’s ...

It’s not one you’re likely to use in everyday conversation—but you will find it in an dictionary. | Jamie Grill/The Image Bank/Getty Images At least, that’s what it’s supposed to mean. The word was ...

The longest word in the English language is a massive 189,819-letter chemical name for the protein titin. While it’s technically the correct name based on scientific rules, most dictionaries don’t ...

This jumble of over one thousand unreadable letters is not the product of a kitty dancing on a keyboard. It’s a protein found inside of a virus. And it’s the ...

Yes, this article is about some of the longest English words on record. No, you will not find the very longest word in English in this article. That one word would span about fifty-seven pages. It’s ...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious needs to be taken down a few notches. The moment that Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews danced to the nearly unreadable word in Mary ...