here is a little fun fact that some of you might find interesting.  I was watching the science channel just now (the showDiscoveries This Week) and it was a little fun fact they said before the commercial.

The longest word in the dictionary isn't supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.  It is in fact a chemical compound that is 1,913 letters long!  This is the absolute truth, no joke.  It refers to a specific portion of a strand of DNA.

Here goes...

The longest official word ever (1,913 letters) is the term for the formula C₁₂₈₉H₂₀₅₁N₃₄₃O₃₇₅S₈

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphenyl-
alanylalanylglutaminylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysyglutamyl-
gycylalanylphenylalanylvalylprolylphenylalanylvalylthreonyl-
leucylglycylaspartylprolylglycyllisoleucylglutamylglutaminyl-
serylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylleucylisoleucyl-
glutamylalanylglycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucyl-
glycylisoleucylprolylphenylalanylserylaspartylprolylleucyl-
alanylaspartylglycylprolylthreonylisoleucylglutaminylasparaginyl-
alanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylphenylalanylalanylalanyl-
glycylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphenylalanyl-
glutamylmethionylleucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyl-
lysylhistidylprolylthreonylisoleucylprolylisoleucylglycylleucyl-
leucylmethionyltyrosylalanylasparaginylleucylvalylphenylalanyl-
asparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspartylglutamylphenylalanyl-
tyrosylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglycylvalyl-
aspartylsrylvalylleucylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalyl-
glutaminylglutamylserylalanylprolylphenylalanylarginylglutaminyl-
alanylalanylleucylarginylhistidylasparaginylvalylalanyl-
prolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylprolylprolylaspartyl-
alanylaspartylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminyl-
isoleucylalanylseryltyrosylglycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyl-
tyrosylleucylleucylserylarginylalanylglycylvalylthreonylglycyl-
alanylglutamylasparaginylarginylalanylalanylleucylleucyllysyl-
glutamyltyrosylasparaginylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminyl-
glycylphenylalanylglysylisoleucylserylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminyl-
valyllysylalanylalanylisoleucylaspartylalanylglycylalanylalanyl-
glycylalanylisoleucylserylglycylserylalanylisoleucylvalyllysylisoleucyl-
isoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasparaginylisoleucylglutamyl-
prolylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyllysylvalylphenyl-
alanylvalylglutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonylarginy-
lserine.


Try saying that five times fast

But the longest 'real' word that doesn't refer to a name of a disease, place or chemical compound is actually floccinaucinihilipilification.  Do you remember the comercial where there were kids at a spelling bee?  The host said to the first kid "cat" the kid said "cat, C-A-T, cat.  Then the next kid came up and the host said "Your word is floccinaucinihilipilification" and the kid just sat there... then the comerical said something like "does life seem unfair sometimes... grab a coke" or some S#!t like that, lol..... I guess I'm the only one that remembers that.

the really funny thing is I tried to run spellcheck on this and it errored out, hahahaha, see the screenshot I've added - you know it's a crazy word when it crashes spellcheck.

-Damon

thats one long F#@&en word 

Tryptophan synthase.Tryptophan synthase, {PDB: 1WQ5}

Got lucky.

Edit: I had google opened in another tab. When  I found the picture I just went back to the forum tab and entered the picture. It didn't give me a warning or nothing. Sorry for stealing your thunder. You can delete this post.

actually, there is a "new" longest word ever, that is not any of those things...

















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oh hush, you just wish I had named you! :p

;)

oh, and I could write more :p