Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary with 45 letters, meaning a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano, but there's an even longer word that takes three hours to say. A 189,819 letter long word which is the name of a giant protein called Titin.
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