Most English words longer than about 15-20 letters are scientific, meaningless, or highly specialized, and they tend to be formed by affixation. This is the act or process of adding affixes to a base word to produce a derivative word—in the word affixation, for instance, -ation is an affix. Here are some of the longest words.
No list of unnecessarily long words would be complete without an entrant from German, a language which often appears to exist in order to create such creatures. Weltanschauung has been in use in English since 1868, and serves your purpose for when you need to describe your outlook on the world while conveying a certain Teutonic je ne sais quoi.
Do you need a really long word to impress or confuse your friends? Here's a list of our favorite obscure and long English words and their meanings.
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Yahoo: 20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus, How To Pronounce Them!)
20 Longest Words in English and Their Meanings (Plus, How To Pronounce Them!)
Oxford Mail: Longest words in the dictionary: What they mean and how to pronounce
Longest words in the dictionary: What they mean and how to pronounce