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Yes, acids with pH below 0 and bases with pH above 14 are called superacids and superbases, respectively. The actual pH scale is only 0-14, but some acids and bases fall outside of those bounds, since the scale is only for aqueous solutions (dissolved in water).

Previous answer does not understand the meaning of the term superacid, and pH is not defined as only 0-14. For example, the pH of concentrated HCl (12.1 M) that you would find in a chemical stockroom is -1.08. It is not a superacid, just highly concentrated. pH is commonly defined as -log ([H3O+]), and the output of this function has no limited range. Similarly, concentrated NaOH solution will have pH 15.25, but that does not make it a superbase.

At such large concentrations the accuracy of the above-stated method for deriving pH breaks down due to activity-coefficient variation. It would, in such a case, be more useful to use the Hammett Acidity Function to describe the acidity of such a solution. While the generalization that any acid outside the range of 0-14 is a superacid admittedly contains a Eulerian fallacy, it is within the realm of understanding of most basic IO Chem students. Perhaps, then, a better answer for the original question would simply be "Yes."

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