Teh Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words Thread

[LordShiva]

I got this as the post-posting message:

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleuc ylphenylalanylalanylglutamin-
ylleucyllysylglutamylarginyllysylglutamylglycylala nylphenylalanylvalylprolyl-
phenylalanylvalylthreonylleucylglycylaspartylproly lglycylisoleucylglutamylglu-
taminylserylleucyllysylisoleucylaspartylthreonylle ucylisoleucylglutamylalanyl-
glycylalanylaspartylalanylleucylglutamylleucylglyc ylisoleucylprolylphenylala-
nylserylaspartylprolylleucylalanylaspartylglycylpr olylthreonylisoleucylgluta-
minylasparaginylalanylthreonylleucylarginylalanylp henylalanylalanylalanylgly-
cylvalylthreonylprolylalanylglutaminylcysteinylphe nylalanylglutamylmethionyl-
leucylalanylleucylisoleucylarginylglutaminyllysylh istidylprolylthreonylisoleu-
cylprolylisoleucylglycylleucylleucylmethionyltyros ylalanylasparaginylleucylva-
lylphenylalanylasparaginyllysylglycylisoleucylaspa rtylglutamylphenylalanyltyro-
sylalanylglutaminylcysteinylglutamyllysylvalylglyc ylvalylaspartylserylvalylleu-
cylvalylalanylaspartylvalylprolylvalylglutaminylgl utamylserylalanylprolylphe-
nylalanylarginylglutaminylalanylalanylleucylarginy lhistidylasparaginylvalylala-
nylprolylisoleucylphenylalanylisoleucylcysteinylpr olylprolylaspartylalanylas-
partylaspartylaspartylleucylleucylarginylglutaminy lisoleucylalanylseryltyrosyl-
glycylarginylglycyltyrosylthreonyltyrosylleucylleu cylserylarginylalanylglycyl-
valylthreonylglycylalanylglutamylasparaginylarginy lalanylalanylleucylprolylleu-
cylasparaginylhistidylleucylvalylalanyllysylleucyl lysylglutamyltyrosylasparagi-
nylalanylalanylprolylprolylleucylglutaminylglycylp henylalanylglycylisoleucylse-
rylalanylprolylaspartylglutaminylvalyllysylalanyla lanylisoleucylaspartylalanyl-
glycylalanylalanylglycylalanylisoleucylserylglycyl serylalanylisoleucylvalylly-
sylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylglutaminylhistidylasp araginylisoleucylglutamylpro-
lylglutamyllysylmethionylleucylalanylalanylleucyll ysylvalylphenylalanylvalyl-
glutaminylprolylmethionyllysylalanylalanylthreonyl arginylserine, n.:
The chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, a
1,913-letter enzyme with 267 amino acids.
-- Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and
Preposterous Words

[Spiffor]

I approve

[Spiffor]

It's even better than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch (a town and a station in Wales)

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Spiffor
It's even better than Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch (a town and a station in Wales)

Welsh things don't count

[SlowwHand]

obscurum per obscurius
phr. - explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure

[Alexander I]

orichalc - legendary red metal

[joncha]

Polycast

[Krill]

That isn;t the chemical name; that is just the name of each individual amino acid placed in order without a space between the words.

So I call bull****.

[BigFree]

I agree on the BS part.

One of the longest, accepted English dictionary, words was told to me by a Dr. friend of mine. It is antidisestablishmentarianism.

[Kuciwalker]

Organic chemistry is cheating.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by BigFree
I agree on the BS part.

One of the longest, accepted English dictionary, words was told to me by a Dr. friend of mine. It is antidisestablishmentarianism.

neoantidisestablishmentarianism

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Krill
That isn;t the chemical name; that is just the name of each individual amino acid placed in order without a space between the words.

So I call bull****.

It's teh formal IUPAC name

[Alexander I]

This one is purportedly the longest in the English language:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis

[Alexander I]

And this one is purportedly the longest in the German language:

der Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftkapitaensmuetzen knopf

[Barnabas]

English has very short words in average, if english spelling made sense, you could write english sentences is comparatively very little space, which would be uber cool.

Even the way it is, the same book in english and spanish, Is much shorter in english.