I really had to include this one. It is – at twenty-nine letters – the longest non-technical word in the Oxford English Dictionary. I stress the “non-technical” aspect because when it comes to chemical compounds, for example, the length of a word to describe them could be effectively limitless in size. Pronounced (deep breath) flock-y-nau-chee-nee-hilly-pilly-fik-ashun, it means “the act or art of proclaiming something to be worthless”. There are several different opinions as to how it should be pronounced correctly but as it’s got (very loose) Latin roots, I’ve stuck with the Latin.

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