For example, which has greater impact ... Adverbs are a much broader word category of which “manner adverbs” — those that modify actions — are just a subset. In the broader sense ...

And it keeps some robust company. Here are some examples of the longest words by category. Note the ellipses. All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters ...

In languages with fewer terms than this – such as the Alaskan language Yup’ik with its five terms – the range of a word expands. For example, for languages without a separate word for ...