How to spell state

noun. the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.

State can be a condition — like solid, liquid, or gas, or even sad or happy. It can also be a state as in Idaho or New York. To state is to say something. State comes from the Latin status, meaning “condition of a country.” Interestingly, even before the Revolutionary War, Britain called the American colonies states.

transitive verb. 1 : to set by regulation or authority. 2 : to express the particulars of especially in words : report broadly : to express in words. Other Words from state Synonyms More Example Sentences Learn More about state.

1. In formal writing, spell out the two words as “United States,” as in the example below. This is always appropriate. The United States Ambassador to the United Nations is charged with representing the United States during meetings of the General Assembly.

Color is the spelling used in the United States. Colour is used in other English-speaking countries. The word color has its roots (unsurprisingly) in the Latin word color. It entered Middle English through the Anglo-Norman colur, which was a version of the Old French colour.

METHIONYLTHREONYLTHREONYGLUTAMINYLARGINYL …

All told, the full chemical name for the human protein titin is 189,819 letters, and takes about three-and-a-half hours to pronounce.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the English language. It means an estimation of something as worthless.

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea. (The scientific name iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges.)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word in the English language. It means an estimation of something as worthless.

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, this 45-letter word for a disease is the longest English word that is defined in a major dictionary. It’s a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.

So what’s the word? Wikipedia’s says that it’s “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl isoleucine” (ellipses necessary), which is the “chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.” Also, there’s some dispute about whether this is really a word.