floccinaucinihilipilification ,

The word "floccinaucinihilipilification" means "the estimation of something as worthless."

In a letter written in 1741 Shenstone became the first person to record the use of "floccinaucinihilipilification".

"Floccinaucinihilipilification"

This round was notable for regular appearances of very long words such as Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and Floccinaucinihilipilification.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines floccinaucinihilipilification as "the action of estimating as worthless."

The Senate majority leader, Robert C. Byrd, had a ready answer yesterday when he was asked to comment on the Administration's position on a bill: "floccinaucinihilipilification."

Watch for cameras to swing to Pat Moynihan's smile of floccinaucinihilipilification, as he listens to this surrender to his demand that health and welfare reform be remarried.

Floccinaucinihilipilification was the first of his eventual kind, born from a tank of oxygenated polyfluorocarbon emulsion, an alien, human kind of consciousness forced upon him.

"I note your distress at my floccinaucinihilipilification of the C.T.B.T." Mr. Helms wrote, using a word meaning "considering as worthless."

"Floccinaucinihilipilification," the second of Irish composer David Flynn's "Two Nonsense Songs," ends with the word sung in a mock operatic cadenza style.

Some of her entries focus on everyday words such as "irony" and "OK," while others address lengthy and rarely used words such as "floccinaucinihilipilification " and "antidisestablishmentarianism."

The coinage is based on floccinaucinihilipilification , a 29-letter word that was the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary, First Edition, and that means the action or habit of estimating as worthless.

In a House of Commons debate on the remuneration of EU staff on 21 February 2012, he used the word floccinaucinihilipilification, making it the longest word to be recorded in Hansard.

In 1988 Coia became the host of the BBC gameshow Catchword, memorable for the fact that seemingly every contestant endeavoured to employ the words floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis during their efforts.

Floccinaucinihilipilification, at 29 letters (and meaning the act of estimating something as being worth so little as to be practically valueless, or the habit of doing so), is the longest non-technical, coined word in the English language.