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Any suggestions of long words to make into shorter words.

(14 Posts)
Dawn22 Tue 14-Apr-20 17:11:51

The message above says it all. Anyone wants to start with suggesting a few long words to start the ball rolling.

ninathenana Tue 14-Apr-20 17:17:03

Onomatopeia

grannylyn65 Tue 14-Apr-20 17:20:36

Justifications

tiredoldwoman Tue 14-Apr-20 17:30:40

intergalactic

Aglassofroseplease Tue 14-Apr-20 18:20:27

My mum used to give us this one: Constantinople

Calendargirl Tue 14-Apr-20 18:40:33

encyclopaedia

MiniMoon Tue 14-Apr-20 18:53:18

Hieroglyphics

mary51 Tue 14-Apr-20 18:56:44

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

Often given when I was in school.

Oopsadaisy3 Tue 14-Apr-20 18:57:57

Bacchanalianism

MiniMoon Tue 14-Apr-20 19:07:53

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

And now me girl's me wife. ? And a lovely thing she is too! grin

BBbevan Tue 14-Apr-20 19:09:53

The classic one we were given in school was

Constantinople

Lucca Tue 14-Apr-20 19:11:51

floccinaucinihilipilification

CherryCezzy Tue 14-Apr-20 20:30:05

BBbevan ditto ?. Seems you've "done" that one too Aglassofroseplease I referred to Constantinople on the make words out of caterpillar thread. There's a lot of words that can be made out of Constantinople. Not my suggestion here though since it appears too many of us have already had practice on it.
Flicking through a thesaurus at random the word I "landed on" was intersocial so my suggestion is:
Intersocial.

JessK Tue 14-Apr-20 21:36:31

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

The fear of long words apparently