How about “delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol”? That’s pretty common. Of course, you can say the much shorter “pot” instead.
This is such a stretch, but how about the name “Clyde”? There’s a “ly” (light year) between the beginning and the end.
Wow. That is far-fetched.
How about “googling”? That has a “google in” between the beginnign and the end, which is about 1.57828283 × 10^95 miles!
Well, I have had numerous conversations with my friends that involved the word pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism.
Really? What’s the formal definition of this unit? The only “google” [uncapitalized noun] I know is a unitless number name (10[sup]100[/sup]) 1.57828283 × 10^95 miles! would be a google of inches (or one google inches) and I can’t imagine anyone basing a legitimate unit of astronomical measure on inches. A googlemeter, I could believe, but “google-” isn’t a legitimate SI prefix and a googlemeter would be 39.37 times as big as you indicated: 6.2137 x 10[sup]96[/sup] miles
Don’t make me escalate to [url=http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/math99/math99147.htm]googleplex (10[sup]google[/sup] or skews[/url [“askews” is allowed in the OED as “sidewise glances” [obs.])
On the cutesy front, we’ve thus far legitimately had (in order of increasing size)
smiles
similes
beleaguered
TAUT works in all-caps, since AU (9.3 x10[sup]7[/sup] miles) must be capitalized [vs. Au (gold) or au (obs version of “owe”)]
clyde doesn’t have the caps limitation for ly [5.88 x 10[sup]12[/sup] miles]
I guess it’s my turn to raise: “megaparsecs” (which I have actually seen and used myself) I doubt I’ve ever seen gigaparsecs used except to explain the limit of the theroretically observable universe (10 Gpc) But if you’re going to go that way, why be a piker? Go for the five-letter suffixes at the end of the SI definitions: zetta- (10[sup]21[/sup] or yottaparsecs [3.3 x 10[sup]24[/sup] ly or 1.9 x 10^37 miles) are each one letter longer than gigaparsecs.
I hasten to add that the search engine is not spelled in the same way as the number, the former being “google”, while the latter is “googol”.
I don’t see why it has to be a unit. A word with three miles between the ends would be long, because three miles is a long way. My word had a googol inches (“googl in”) between the ends.
I freely admit I tortured the spelling in various ways to make the joke, but I thought I’d get away with that.
Chronos: thanks for pointing that out. I did know, honest, but as I said above, thought it was close enough for humour.
Googolplex? Yes, of course. But I couldn’t think of a word with ‘googolplex’ in it, let alone with a unit of measurement after. 