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Depending on how common, "/usr/share/dict/american-english", suggests
honorificabilitudinitatibus unimaginatively
But my "/usr/share/dict/american-english-huge" gives
aluminosilicate aluminosilicates cytomegalovirus cytomegaloviruses generalizability hexosaminidases honorificabilitudinitatibus honorificabilitudinity hypocotyledonary ineradicability overimaginative paramyxoviruses pararosanilines parasitological polyvinylidenes supererogatorily tenosynovitises unimaginatively verisimilitudes
And if you want to get crazy, the "american-english-insane" yields
acetonylacetone acetylacetonates acetylasalicylic adenolipomatosis aluminosilicate aluminosilicates anatomicomedical categorematical cycadofilicales cytomegalovirus cytomegaloviruses epicoracohumeral epicotyledonary gelatinizability generalizability hamamelidoxylon hemadynamometer hematocytogenesis hematocytometer hematodynamometer hemocytogenesis hepaticological hepatomelanosis hepatoperitonitis heterometabolic hexosaminidases honorificabilitudinitatibus honorificabilitudinity hydatopyrogenic hyperanakinesis hyperoxygenized hypocotyledonary hypovitaminosis ineradicability katakinetomeric laparohepatotomy manipulatability medicobotanical metabolizability monocotyledones nonapologetical overeducatively overelaborately overimaginative overimaginatively overimitatively papulovesicular paramyxoviruses pararosanilines parasitological pericanalicular perihepatitises polycotyledonary polyvinylidenes reticulatoramose reticulatovenose reticulocytosis retinopapilitis semicaricatural semifiguratively semimineralized semipopularized semipyramidical siderosilicosis superacidulated superelaborately supereligibility supererogatorily superoratorical superoxygenated tenosynovitises tenovaginitises tocodynamometer tokodynamometer unimaginability unimaginatively unimolecularity unoriginatively verisimilitudes vesiculotubular
Hurray for regular expressions
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Gumnos, as Anu asked the question with today's word, you should send him your answer[s], as he may not see it here in this user based forum.
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Wow Gumnos! some great words there.....how long were you working on those?
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Sorry, just getting back to this (apparently the "email me with follow-ups" checkbox didn't send me any of your replies). It was a simple regular-expression run against a local dictionary on my computer:
grep '^[aeiouy]\?\([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz][aeiouy]\)*[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]\?$' /usr/share/dict/words | grep ...............
which roughly translates to "allowing one optional vowel at the beginning of the word, find any number of consonant-followed-by-vowel pairs, optionally followed by one consonant at the end; search the local dictionary file for anything that matches the pattern; take the results and filter them for matches containing at least 15 characters in them". There's something to be said for geekery.
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