I'm surprised that "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" made it to the dictionary...
And both English and German theoretically have no limit to the length of individual words obtained by combining different bases (in English, normally confined to scientific words, but in German more general).
Here's a German word I learned in high school: could come in handy if ever you need to refer to an assassination attempt on the relative of an African chief:
Hottentottenpotentatentantenattentat
The longest non-scientific English word was usually considered to be antidisestablishmentarianism
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