Finding the longest word that describes something real can be a challenge — especially when you are competing with Mary Poppins.

Well, that depends on what we mean by "word." If a word is coined just to be long, like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, should that count?

In Love Labor's Lost, a clown named Costard, arrested for having inlawful fling with a milkmaid, gets to say...

honorificabilitudinitatibus

That's 27 letters. The word means something like "loaded with honors," but, suspiciously, it comes in the middle of a conversation about wordiness, so it might be a word created to be wordy.

Here's one you know better:

antidisetablishmentarianism

It has 28 letters, but what is it? Just a bundle of suffixes and prefixes piled up into a little attention-grabbing hummock.