The longest English word:
antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters)---means opposition to the separation of church and state
floccinaucinihilipilification(29 letters)--meaning the estimation of something as worthless, is the longest non-technical word in the OED.
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters)--a lung disease, appears to be a semi-serious concoction.
Longest word without a vowel:
symphysy.
Longest word with at most 1 vowel:
glycyphyllin, psychorhythm.
Word with most vowels:
counterrevolutionaries.
Word with most consecutive vowels (5):
cooeeing, miaoued, miaouing, queueing.
Smallest word with all 5 vowels:
eulogia, miaoued, sequoia.
Longest word with only 3 distinct alphabets:
seeresses.
Longest word with only 4 distinct alphabets:
senselessness.
Longest word with no repeated letter:
dermatoglyphics.
Longest word with letters in alphabetical order:
aegilops.
Longest word with letters in reverse alphabetical order:
trollied.
Longest word that can be typed with the right hand alone
(on a qwerty keyboard): phyllophyllin.
Longest word that can be typed with the left hand alone
(on a qwerty keyboard): devertebrated.
Longest word that can be typed using the top row
(of a qwerty keyboard): rupturewort.
Interesting words with the substring 'uu':
continuum, fatuus, menstruum, residiuum, vacuum.
Word with the maximum number of distinct alphabets (16):
superacknowledgment.
Word with most a's (6):
taramasalata.
Word with most e's (7):
electrotelethermometer.
Word with most i's (6):
pericardiomediastinitis.
Word with most o's (6):
zoologicoarchaeologist.
Word with most u's (5):
untumultous.
Words with four consecutive letters of the alphabet appearing consecutively:
gymnoplast, superstuff, understuff.
Words with four consecutive letters of the alphabet appearing consecutively in reverse order:
weaponmaker.
Words with 3 consecutive s's:
headmistressship, patronessship.
The last word:
zyzzyva.
The longest word in the dictionary containing no letter more than once is "smiley." (There is a mile between the first and last letter.)
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