I was asked by a friend here to find a list of words that have 11+ letters in them and I thought you could do it off of http://www.dictionary.com but that doesn’t seem to work. I remember seeing that type of list done earlier. Anyone else know how to do it?
Thanks and HUGS!
Sqrl
Just an idea - try to find a crossword dictionary online. They usually allow you to simply place asterisks for unknown letters. Typing eleven asterisks would get all the 11-letter words. Or, you could get a hard copy of a crossword dictionary too I suppose. They’re organized by number of letters.
Thanks Gazoo. I knew there had to be a place to find it but was suffering from brain farts. I found it right away at the following link: http://dictionary.langenberg.com.
If only my brain worked all day long I would rock constantly like you. /me bows in the presence of the mighty Gazoo.
HUGS!
Sqrl
Glad to have helped.
awk ‘length($1) > 11 {print $1}’ dictionary_file 
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No, wait Sqrl! I’ve got the 20-volume unabridged Oxford English Dictionary right here! Let’s see…
Okay, here’s one:
abandonment
I’ll keep posting 'em as I find 'em…
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Pages 11, 12 & 13 are what you’re looking for.
grep ^.{11}$ dictionary_file
I have one that I say to my wife quite often:
Fuckoffandstopbotheringme.
I don’t say it out loud, though, so the poor dear is completely oblivious to a 24 letter word created just for her.
How long a list do you need? If everyone who read were to post a few 11+ letter words, would you be able to use that list?
But I’ll help scratch1300 make you a list, at least:
cooperative
functionary
fundamentalism
insurmountable
ozonosphere
pachysandra
zygapophysis
Fails to account for characters not part of the word identification. You should have gone bought perls.
international(ly)
manueverability
uncopyrightable
indestructible
facetiousness
misanthropic
indeterminable
There are some for you:)
I’m bored, so here are some more:
heartrending
ichthyology
distinguished
siphonophore
suggestible
polymorphous
Why yes, I do know where to find 11-letter words.
Check this out:
Ken Silverman’s Utility Page! Ken Silverman wrote the Build engine (used in Duke Nukem 3D) plus a whole lot of other crap. His webpage is great. But the important thing right now is his “FindWord” program. I actually used this on another SDMB thread. You can use wildcards with it. The only problem I have with it is that you can’t (to my knowledge) pause the program without pressing Break, which is tedious.
Anyway, I did “findword ???” and got a HUGE list of 11-letter words. The ones on the screen right now are just the last words in the list, which are:
xylophonist
xylotomical (there’s a word to use at parties. I don’t know what it means, though.)
Yardmasters
yellowbirds
yellowtails
yellowwoods
yokefellows
youngnesses (???)
zabagliones (I won’t ask.)
zealousness
zemindaries
zestfulness
zoantharian
zombielikes
zooparasite
zooplankter
zooplankton
zootechnics
zwitterions (???)
zygodactyls
zygomorphic
zygotically
zymotically
You get the idea. I also got it to list 15-letter words, which include:
volatilizations
voluntarinesses (I don’t think this is a real word.)
voraciousnesses (ditto)
voyeuristically
vulnerabilities
warmheartedness
warrantableness
waterlessnesses (this is obviously not a word you’d actually use. Imagine “those flasks sure have many waterlessnesses”)
wearisonenesses
weatherboarding (hey, a real word.)
weltanschauungs (what is this, German?)
westernizations (another real word…)
whimsicalnesses
whippersnappers
wholesomenesses
withdrawnnesses
woebegonenesses (this is the most ridiculous word this program has produced so far)
wonderfulnesses
worrisomenesses
worthlessnesses
wrongheadedness
xerographically (another fun word to use at parties if I knew what it meant.)
zinjanthropines
That program is so fun! 
Ken Silverman also has a neat boggle-cheating program.
My own contributions:
zygomatically
sternocleidomastoid (My favorite thing to say in 2nd grade)
icosihedron
dodecahedron
rhombitruncated
icosidodecahedron
cuboctahedron
tetrahedron
christianity (Hey, it’s got more than 11 letters.)
my contribution:
Masturbation
hehehe, the maturity level in this thread has just dropped a notch…
Not to mention the intelligence level.
Masturbation has twelve letters.
Twelve isn’t more than eleven?
Plus they cite our very own Arnold Winkelreid (using his real name, of course) for the longest French word.