What are the longest/hardest space words you can think of?

[Clockwork13]

Backstory, i need to fingerspell words for my sign language class. Since i dislike everyone in that class i figured i would just make it as difficult as possible.

What can you guys think of? I currently have 'kugelblitz' and 'extraterrestrial'.

Also thinking about adding magnetar

Edited April 14, 2017 by Clockwork13

[The Raging Sandwich]

Alcubierre

[Bill Phil]

Laniakea Supercluster

Solar irradiance

Atmosphere

International Space Station

[SuperFastJellyfish]

Syzygy

I can't even say it in vocal English.  Good luck to you!

Edited April 14, 2017 by SuperFastJellyfish
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[Spaceception]

You're evil.

 

I like you.

 

Interstellar

Enceladus.

Globular

But if you reeeeeeealy want to have fun..

Spoiler

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia The fear of long words.

 

Only do this one if your class can all speak, this is only funny to a point

 

[tater]

Bremsstrahlung. (thinking H II regions)

 

[Spaceception]

OH! And tell us how it goes.

[IncongruousGoat]

Perihelion

Parallax

Photovoltaic (not space, strictly, but applicable to space tech)

Praxidike (no, really. It's a moon of Jupiter)

Psamathe (moon of Neptune)

 

[razark]

"Bureaucracy".

 

Edit:
"Going anywhere".

(Well, you said you wanted hard ones, and that seems pretty hard for the agency...)

Edited April 14, 2017 by razark

[Clockwork13]

14 minutes ago, razark said:

"Bureaucracy".

 

Edit:
"Going anywhere".

(Well, you said you wanted hard ones, and that seems pretty hard for the agency...)

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[Benjamin Kerman]

ammonium perchlorate

Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene

hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene

[kerbiloid]

16-letter asteroids

Spoiler

Wilson-Harrington

Bec-Borsenberger

Bertilpettersson

Brittanyanderson

Ceskafilharmonie

Hammer-Purgstall

Hartbeespoortdam

Hermanngrassmann

Jindrichuvhradec

Kosmodemyanskaya

Kunitomoikkansai

Lavilledemirmont

Marschwarzschild

Marthanalexander

Nusslein-Volhard

Pavelaleksandrov

Payne-Gaposchkin

Radiocommunicata

Rimskij-Korsakov

Sanpoloamosciano

Stefanovalentini

Takatsuguyoshida

Tipografiyanauka

Toulouse-Lautrec

Vojno-Yasenetsky

 

Edited April 14, 2017 by kerbiloid

[Superfluous J]

Technically not "space" but space related, Anticrepuscular.

Crepuscular rays are those "god rays" that everybody installs Scatterer to see in KSP, and anticrepuscular rays are the same ones, on the other side of the sky from the Sun. They're very rare and very odd to see, with no Sun for them to emanate from.

[kerbiloid]

Combobulating discombobulators

[KSK]

Rocket. It's got a rock in it and rocks are pretty hard.

Parsec. They're really, really long.

[Nuke]

brachistochrone -fastest possible and least efficient type of orbital transfer. im not even sure i spelled it right. torch ships anyone?

Edited April 14, 2017 by Nuke

[sevenperforce]

Exculpatory. "The failure investigation's probe into materials defects proved to be exculpatory."

Phenomenological. "A phenomenological approach to orbital mechanics performed poorly."

Quintessential. "The argument over the planetary status of Pluto seemed to many to be the quintessential astronomical debate."

Okay, those are all kind of a stretch to call space-related, but........

[Kerbal01]

Hydrocoptic marzelvanes so fitted Ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

[cubinator]

Shurnarkabtishashutu (Zeta Tauri)

[sevenperforce]

"Kobayashi Maru" should twist everyone's fingers up nicely.

[kerbiloid]

Retropropulsive undisaccelerators

(Probably devices than prevent from stopping acceleration in retrograde direction)

Edited April 14, 2017 by kerbiloid

[DDE]

Unsymmetrical dymethylhydrazine

Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid

Brennschluss

Ferranti-Shirley viscosimeter

Quote

Between 1951 and 1955 Happell and Marsel at NYU prepared and characterized some fifty acetylenics: hydrocarbons, alcohols, ethers, amines, and nitriles. They varied in complexity from propyne, or methyl acetylene, to such things as dimethyldivinyldiacetylen, with no less than four multiple bonds.

 

[Benjamin Kerman]

Strange rocket fuels for the win!!!

[IllyrianTheGreat]

ESA Space Flight Control Center - (in german one word) ESA-Raumflugkontrollzentrum
 

[sevenperforce]

If we're allowing German, there's always the good old Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.