List
| word | pronunciation | letters | source | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| schtroumpfed | /ˈʃtruːmpft/ | 12 | Eco | The original French name for smurf is schtroumpf, and is used as an all-purpose noun and verb by Smurfs and in imitation of them. The form schtroumpfed is used in Alistair McEwen's English translation of an essay by Umberto Eco: "Let us suppose that an English speaker of average culture hears a Schtroumpf poet reciting I schtroumpfed lonely as a schtroumpf." However, this is intended to represent the Schtroumpf language rather than English. |
| squirrelled | /ˈskwɜrld/ | 11 | LPD; MWOD | compressed American pronunciation of a word which in British RP always has two syllables /ˈskwɪrəld/. The monosyllabic pronunciation rhymes with world, curled. In America the given spelling is a variant of the more usual squirreled: see -led and -lled spellings. |
| broughammed | /ˈbruːmd/ | 11 | Sc.Am. | meaning "travelled by brougham", by analogy with bussed, biked, carted etc. Rhymes with fumed, zoomed. Suggested by poet William Harmon in a competition to find the longest monosyllable. |
| schmaltzed | /ˈʃmɔːltst/, /ˈʃmɒltst/, /ˈʃmæltst/ | 10 | OED | meaning "imparted a sentimental atmosphere to" e.g. of music; with a 1969 attestation for the past tense. |
| squirreled | /ˈskwɜrld/ | 10 | LPD; MWOD; Moser | the more usual American spelling of squirrelled. |
| scrootched | /ˈskruːtʃt/ | 10 | AHD | variant of scrooched, meaning "crouched" |
| scroonched | /ˈskrʊnʃt/ | 10 | W3NID; Moser | variant of scrunched, meaning "squeezed". |
| scraunched | /ˈskrɔːnʃt/ | 10 | W3NID; Moser | a "chiefly dialect" word, meaning "crunched". |
| broughamed | /ˈbruːmd/ | 10 | Shaw | a shorter variant of broughammed, used by George Bernard Shaw in a piece of journalism. |
| strengthed | /ˈstrɛŋθt/ | 10 | OED | an obsolete verb meaning "strengthen", "force", and "summon one's strength". The latest citation is 1614 (1479 for strengthed), at which time the Early Modern English pronunciation would have been disyllabic. |
| schwartzed | /ˈʃwɔrtst/ | 10 | meaning "responded 'schwartz' to a player without making eye-contact" in the game zoom schwartz profigliano. | |
| schnappsed | /ˈʃnæpst/ | 10 | Sc.Am. | meaning "drank schnapps"; proposed by poet George Starbuck in the same competition won by his friend William Harmon. |
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