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FABACEAE (a family of beans in some classifications) longest word which can also be a hexadecimal number (consisting only of A, B, C, D, E, F) ACCEDED, DEFACED, EFFACED longest hexadecimal words acceptable in Scrabble. BEDFACE (a word used in the building industry) the shortest word with all 6 letters. Other short words: BIFACED, BOLDFACE, FEEDBACK. FICKLEHEADED and FIDDLEDEEDEE may be the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. Shorter words: BACKFIELD, BACKFILLED, BLACKBALLED, BLACKJACKED, BLACKMAILED, DECALCIFIED, FEEDBACK, FLIMFLAMMED, HIJACKED, IMMEDICABLE, MACADAMIA, HIJACKED
Not in Dictionaries: ILLEFFACEABLE, CABBAGEHEADED

Words originally trademarks (or still are) ESCALATOR, ASPIRIN, CELLOPHANE, CORNFLAKES, CUBE STEAK, DITTO, GUNK, HEROIN, JELL-O, KEROSENE, KLEENEX, LANOLIN, MIMEOGRAPH, MOXIE, PABLUM, PHILLIPS SCREW, Q-TIP, TABLOID, THERMOS, TRAMPOLINE, WINDBREAKER, YO-YO, ZIPPER

Erroneousnesses, nonconcurrences, and verrucosenesses are the longest words consisting of only short letters. Lighttight and lillypilly are the longest consisting of only long letters. Dikdik, titbit, and tidbit consist only of up letters. Gyp is the only word consisting only of letters with descenders.

45 letters pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis the longest word in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, an elaborate way to describe lung disease.

29 letters floccipaucinihilipilification the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary, expressing the act of estimating as worthless.

The longest English word according to the Oxford English Dictionary is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Only other word with the same number of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Only 15 letter word spelled without repeating a letter: uncopyrightable.

FORTY is the only number with its letters in alphabetical order.

FOUR has 4 letters; no other number has that property in English.

Find 4-letter words in: FLOWER BEDS, PARKING LOT, SHOPPING CART. No plurals.

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