Biggest Word

posted on January 31st, 2006, 4:08 pm

hey guies whats the biggest word i know that it is an enzyme or a protine and no its not aitidisatablishmentarriensim

posted on January 31st, 2006, 4:37 pm

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsmützenbandbefestigungsknopf

Hm... or that strange name of a village of Wales... just don't know how to spell it.

Of course, as you said, chemistry is always good for long words.

Edit:

Ah, yes, that's officially the place with the longest name in Europe:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

It's welsh and describes where the place is.
Translation is:

"'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave"

http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyr...gogogoch.co.uk/


The funny thing: I've already been there.

posted on January 31st, 2006, 5:15 pm

ACETYL­SERYL­TYROSYL­SERYL­ISO­LEUCYL­THREONYL­SERYL­PROLYL­SERYL­GLUTAMINYL­PHE
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Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

posted on January 31st, 2006, 5:19 pm

no that is the offical word (the wlesh one) your one is just letters

posted on January 31st, 2006, 5:44 pm

my word is ofishal is a american medaical term.

Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.
This word has appeared in the American Chemical Society's Chemical Abstracts and is thus considered by some to be the longest real word.

[[TD]Roach]

posted on January 31st, 2006, 6:08 pm

Last edited by [TD]Roach on January 31st, 2006, 6:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

well not the official name for it because several components are mentuioned twice and that is then differently named.

if you have 2 methyl groups on propane then you don't have

methylmethylpropane but dimethylpropane

and that virus is made out of several components. acetyl, glutmin, seryl and tyrosyl ( DNA)

posted on January 31st, 2006, 6:30 pm

You actually read that? :S

I take ewms word for it

posted on January 31st, 2006, 6:36 pm

nah, just glanced through it and noticed it. It is simple dna not even the biggest one even because a virus has one of the smallest chains.

posted on January 31st, 2006, 6:40 pm

you mean to say that its like a compound like Carbon dioxide thats lots of different words then its not one big word.

posted on January 31st, 2006, 7:00 pm

the big word is mores descripive if i was a perfeshal lexicogropher/docter i mite be abule to brack the word down.

each part of the word means some thing.

[[TD]Roach]

posted on February 1st, 2006, 5:05 am

Last edited by [TD]Roach on February 1st, 2006, 5:15 am, edited 1 time in total.

you mean to say that its like a compound like Carbon dioxide thats lots of different words then its not one big word.

yep you are correct but the instead of calling it carbon dioxide it is called carbon oxiide oxide. or saying hydrogenhydrogenhydrogencarbonhydrogenhydrogenhydrogencarbonhydrogenhydrogenhydrogencarbonhydrogenhydrogenhydrogencarbon instead of propane.

i am not good at biology but what i know that wordt what ewm gave is rather a map on how how the acetyl, glutmin, seryl and tyrosyl are placed. because if you replace one of those, they get different dna proporties.

you know like CSI you see in DNA: TGCAACAGT etc etc etc etc and they compare that chain of letters with the found DNA on the victim.

well this is the same but then writen fully.

i am sure there is a bigger word in chamistry but for now i know this one out of my head:

5Z,7E)-(3S)-9,10-secocholesta-5,7,10(19)-trien-3-ol

posted on February 1st, 2006, 3:41 pm

I know of a longer protein, but I have no intention of sitting here and typing out all 80,000 digits of it!

posted on February 2nd, 2006, 4:30 pm

thats the word i was think ing of thx ewm

posted on February 2nd, 2006, 10:33 pm

its-***********************************************************ewm

posted on February 3rd, 2006, 12:15 am

heh