There are 32,380 nine-letter words in my dictionary. Can you narrow it down? If you have an Apple or Linux computer, copy/paste this line in the Terminal to see them all: grep ^.........$ /usr/share/dict/words
There are 387 words like that in Webster's Second International. Here's a small sample: grep -xE '([^e]*e){3}[^e]*' /usr/share/dict/words |grep ^.......e$ abeltreeabieteneabsenteeAcemetaeaestheteaftereyeAlbereneantecedeappelleearresteeassesseeaxletreebargeesebeauperebeehousebeetravebegreasebehearsebehenatebenefice muffeteeneckateeneedfireneedsomenegligeeneopreneNepalesenepentheNereidaenoveleseobjecteeOleaceaeomeletteonewhereoperateeoperetteoveredgeoverfreeoverkneepatenteepedigreepeelablepeepholepelerinePenelopepeperineperceiveperezonepermeateperseiteperversepiecettePraesepepreagreepreleasepremiereprepensepresencepreservepretenseprotegee
Three letter words are simply words containing three letters. If you are asking for a list of all three letter words, Webster's Second International contains 1 ,351 of them - too many to list here! If you have access to a non-Windows computer, copy/paste this into the command line: grep '^...$' /usr/share/dict/words If you have a Windows machine, I believe you can download grep for Windows, then find a free plaintext dictionary and have a go at it yourself. There are also text apps that can search with regular expressions, like BBEdit.
You can follow the link, below, and discover under different circumstances, which words are the longest English words.
Negative words are words deemed by culture to be negative. Things like insults, slang words, and curse words are negative. It could also apply to English, and mean words like 'not', 'never', etc.
It means say.
dictionary
The Greek word "dict" means to say or speak. It is the root for words like "dictate" and "dictionary."
The root "dict" or "dic" means to say or speak. It is derived from Latin and is often seen in words related to speaking, such as dictionary (collection of words) or dictate (to command).
Some words that start with "Dict" are:dictadictatedictateddictatesdictatingdictationdictationsdictatordictatorialdictatoriallydictatorialnessdictatorialnessesdictatorsdictatorshipdictatorshipsdictatorydictatressdictatressesdictatrixdictatrixesdictaturedictaturesdicteddictierdictiestdictingdictiondictionaldictionallydictionariesdictionarydictionsdictsdictumdictumsdictydictyogendictyogensdictyosomedictyosomesdictyosteledictyostelesIn a nutshell, try dictator, dictatorship, dictionary, and dicta.
The root word dict means speak or say. Dict is in words such as predict, dictate, and diction.
One word using the suffix "dict" is "dictionary," which refers to a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language and gives their meaning.
Dictate, Diction, Contradict, Dictum, Jurisdiction
Dictation, dictophone, predict, indict, dictator, dictum, dictionary.
The Latin stem dict- is probably derived from the fourth principle part of the verb dico. Dictum is having been said. So the latin stem dict is probably to say.
-dict: to speak--- basically to talk
pre-dict-able "dict" is the root (from the Latin "dictum")