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Urses

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Weltraumanzugshelmlichtpolariseirungsvisier

I think only in German a go... take 5 substantives and make a word...

English transkription

Lightpolarising visor on a austronaut helmet.

Funny Kabooms 

Urses 

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Hannu2

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7 hours ago, Urses said:

I think only in German a go... take 5 substantives and make a word...

It works also in Finnish. Grammar allows infinite number of substantives. There are many insane examples made to be examples but longest word actually used may be "lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas", which means "airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student". Another option is to put insane number of suffixes, but then even Finns have to draw logic chart to understand the word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_words#Finnish

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Urses

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20 hours ago, munlander1 said:

You speaks Engrish too?

The best thing was in '90's to ask for foreign Languages... the most teens get something with 4+, but there where some exotics too like Loglan, Assembler or BASIC and PASCAL and the best they counted:D

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Mad Rocket Scientist

Mad Rocket Scientist

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Spoiler

 

Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine

Monomethylhydrazine

Dinitrogen tetroxide

Geosynchronous

Geostationary

Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene

Triethylaluminium

autogenous

bipropellant

ablative

hypergolic

hydrolox

monopropellant

pyrophoric

retropropulsion

turbopump

Aerozine 50

Argument of periapsis

Extravehicular

Heliocentric

Heliopause

Heliosphere

Hydrosphere

Kosmobuksir (bonus points for foreign language, translates in russian to "space tug")

Langrangian

Micrometeoroid

Occultation

Radioisotope thermoelectric generator

Rankine

Sublimator

 

Guillotine (just a almost impossible to guess word from how it's spelled)

 

 

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Just Jim

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I'm surprised to not see this one yet:

Betelgeuse 

I know most of us here know this, but I've heard people who aren't into astronomy really butcher it the first time the try to pronounce it.  :D

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PrathamK

PrathamK

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Coronal Mass Ejection

Controlled Atmospheric Ballistic Re-Entry Trajectory Course Corrections

Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark-III  - Crew Capsule Re-Entry Experiment

Aerodynamically Integrated Retrograde Braking Robustly Armed Kinetic Extending System 

Extrasolar System

Interstellar Dark Matter

Interstellar Dark Energy

Hypervelocity Intersection Collision Avoidance System

Protective Ablative Heat Shield

Hall-Effect Ion

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