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Any you can think of that have stumped a bunch of people. Just curious. I get a lot of free time on my hands at work...

1. Xerox
2. Russian
3. Exclaimed

just a few, umm...wow this is a lame thread. Just trying to get some posts :p

"high"

People gues all vowels, and are stuck with _ I _ _.
People guess R and S and other common consonants and still have _ I _ _.
People think you're trying to trick them, so they switch to Z and X and other rare letters, but it's still _ I _ _.

Cow.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

:D

Yacht.

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a good one for the uncultured.

Usufruct

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a good one for the uncultured.

Most people will guess that before they even bother with letters

Most people will guess that before they even bother with letters

How?

How?

they see all the spaces, everyone knows that word as the longest

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

:D

There's only one word that long. Plus, it contains so many different letters that the odds of failing are almost zero.

rhythm-- people guess all the vowels and are still stuck

How about that protein that's 180,000+ letters long?

How about that protein that's 180,000+ letters long?

If anyone uses the chemical name for titin in hangman I tip their hat to them.

but since they only got the Y, they'll turn to common letters -- and at R _ Y T _ _ they may very well figure it out.

Syzygy.
Bubblegum.
Caveat.

Milieu, or possibly nephron
If anyone uses the chemical name for titin in hangman I tip their hat to them.
More to the point - what poor bastard had to write that name up?

Even at a pretty decent 100 words per minute, that would take about 32 hours of solid effort.

Coulrophobia - I failed on it twice :(

also:

Phlegm
Wyvern
Jinx
Flyby

lynx

Milieu, or possibly nephron

More to the point - what poor bastard had to write that name up?

Even at a pretty decent 100 words per minute, that would take about 32 hours of solid effort.
Who said you'd write it? Just write a program to come up with a random protein string then print it out.

Hangman... its so obvious nobody suspects

Electrocardiography because it fecking huge.

Nothing too long - more letters means more chance of them guessing. Likewise not too many repeated letters - if they get that letter they're halfway there.

'Axe' always worked quite well for me :)

Nothing too long - more letters means more chance of them guessing. Likewise not too many repeated letters - if they get that letter they're halfway there.

'Axe' always worked quite well for me :)
True, short words are the best.

I find Lynyrd Skynyrd works well when i'm allowed to use names

Zyzzyx

No one ever gets that.

Any you can think of that have stumped a bunch of people. Just curious. I get a lot of free time on my hands at work...

1. Xerox
2. Russian
3. Exclaimed

just a few, umm...wow this is a lame thread. Just trying to get some posts :p

Qix (an arcade game, released by Taito America Corporation in 1981)
Xun (a Chinese vessel flute made of clay or ceramic)
Flan (an upscale, classy custard)

Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhouna-
wnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk.

The best part is that almost nobody has read Finnegan's Wake (including me).

Sammoflange..

Or Sammoflangelous!

Cow got me once. I did pretty well with 'scraunched'

"1337"
No one ever gets it. *shakes head*