WORDS: Mea culpa. We had set Ann Weiner’s letter aside to add it to RTS and it got misplaced. She had written to us back in September (we need to clean our desks more often) about our column on uncommon words.

‘I consider myself a sesquipedalian — a user of long words!

And one of my favorites is eleemosynary — of or pertaining to alms, charity or charitable donations. I’ve always loved words and consider myself a word maven!’

She told us, too, that she had won her junior high spelling bee and loves crossword puzzles. And she has an unusual habit — she reads the dictionary for fun.

In her honor, we’re going to share some more fun words. What are some of the longest one syllable words in the English language?

Screeched, scrunched, stretched and strengths, to name a few.

There are some long words without traditional vowels. Rhythms is one that most people will recognize, while the next one is more rare: twyndyllyngs — a 12-letter word of Welsh origin, meaning twins.

What is the longest word in the English language that has no consonants? Euouae, a 6-letter word meaning a type of cadence in medieval music.

We’d be remiss if we went without mentioning the phobia associated with long words.

And just what is it?

Hippopotomonstroses quippedaliophobia.

Whoever named that must have had a cruel sense of humor.

Merriam-Webster says the longest string of letters used to describe something isn’t technically a word — it’s the chemical name for a protein, begins with methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminyl…, and continues for quite a while after that. The name has 189,819 letters, fills more than 50 pages and takes more than three hours to say.