The longest word in the

Romanian language Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; , or , ) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved fr ...

is , the long name of (

silicosis Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust. It is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of Nodule (medicine), nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs. It is a type of pneum ...

). It consists of 44 letters and refers to a chronic

respiratory disease Respiratory diseases, or lung diseases, are pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange difficult in air-breathing animals. They include conditions of the respiratory tract including the trachea, bronchi, ...

. Its name in the

English language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...

is ''

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis ' () is a 45-letter word coined in 1935 by the then-president of the National Puzzlers' League, Everett M. Smith. It has sometimes been used as a synonym for the occupational disease known as silicosis, but it should not be as most silicosis is ...

'', which is itself the longest English word registered in a major English

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...

. Nevertheless, neither this word nor several subsequent Romanian longest words are recognized by the '' Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române'' ("Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language", DEX). Instead, the longest word collected by the DEX is , which is a medical stabilization method, has 25 letters and comes from the French word . The list of the longest Romanian words is the following: * − 44 letters, the silicosis disease, not admitted by the DEX. * − 36 letters, an

enzyme An enzyme () is a protein that acts as a biological catalyst by accelerating chemical reactions. The molecules upon which enzymes may act are called substrate (chemistry), substrates, and the enzyme converts the substrates into different mol ...

, not admitted by the DEX. * − 32 letters, a type of neuritis, not admitted by the DEX. * − 31 letters, a kind of

surgical operation Surgery is a medical specialty that uses manual and instrumental techniques to diagnose or treat pathological conditions (e.g., trauma, disease, injury, malignancy), to alter bodily functions (e.g., malabsorption created by bariatric surgery ...

, not admitted by the DEX. * − 30 letters, a

chemical substance A chemical substance is a unique form of matter with constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Chemical substances may take the form of a single element or chemical compounds. If two or more chemical substances can be com ...

, not admitted by the DEX. * − 25 letters, a medical stabilization method, admitted by the DEX. The following longest Romanian words are mostly made up of words with 23 or 21 letters. There are also other Romanian words that break other records within the language. The longest word that can be formed with only two vowels is (an

interjection An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction. It is a diverse category, with many different types, such as exclamations ''(ouch!'', ''wow!''), curses (''da ...

) and the longest one that uses all vowels including the ones with diacritics is . Both are registered in the DEX.

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