So You Thought You Had a Big Vocabulary Did You?

Alright all you dictionary.com fans, before you get too proud of the fact you have an extensive vocabulary, check out these words! I actually checked them in the dictionary and they are there!

FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION - (29 letters; an estimation of something as worthless)

HONORIFICABILITUDINITATIBUS - (27 letters "honorableness" It is the ablative plural of the Latin contrived honorificabilitudinitas, which is an extension of honorificabilis meaning "honorableness." )

is the longest word used by Shakespeare. It appears in Love's Labor's Lost, Act V, Scene I, and is spoken by Costard:

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;for thou art not so long by the head ashonorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easierswallowed than a flap-dragon.

ANTITRANSUBSTANTIATIONALIST - ( 27 letters; one who doubts that consecrated bread and wine actually change into the body and blood of Christ)

LEVATOR LABII SUPERIORIS ALAEQUE NASI - (is a thin triangular muscle located on the side of the nose)

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