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The longest regular word to appear in the dictionary -- pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis -- is only a puny 45 letters in length, Unexplained-Mysteries.com reported, adding that some lexicographers aren't sure whether the name of a chemical actually qualifies as a word.
So what if we want a word that is not famous for being long, but a word that describes something real. What's the longest one of those? Science writer Sam Kean, in his book The Disappearing Spoon, worked really hard on this and after much sleuthing, he landed on a word that comes not from dancing English nannies but from virus-hunting scientists.