What are the word records for difference pair (subtracting adjacent letters forms another word)?

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What are the word records for difference pair (subtracting adjacent letters forms another word)?
(Spelling / Alphabetical Order / Entire Word)

  a.  longest
  b.  longest progressive
  c.  chaotic words (no repeated differences between adjacent letters), longest [23-180]
  d.  chaotic pairs (no repeated inter-letter shifts), longest [23-110]

[ Editor: question framed by the editor from the headings of the Taxonomy of Wordplay. ]

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[ Editor: from the Taxonomy of Wordplay, www.questrel.com, retrieved 28 Oct 2026. Classes (common, uncommon, hyphenated words, phrases), scores, ties (-t) and the source codes in brackets are explained in language/english/word.records.introduction. ]

Sources: [B43,3-231,4-139,8-163,207,10-48,12-216]

e.g., BONBON = MALMA: M = O - B, A = N - O, L = N - B
a.  longest
        common words: miters = doomy (6-t)
        common words: kiters = boomy (6-t)
        common words: hazels = gauss (6-t)
        common words: eldest = shyly (6-t)
        common words: waiter = vroom (6-t)
        uncommon words: bonniest = mazedly (8)
b.  longest progressive
        common words: lint = cut = ha = g (4-t)
        common words: pint = gut = la = k (4-t)
        common words: onto = ate = go = r (4-t)
        common words: barn = aid = re = m (4-t)
        common words: sing = jug = on = a (4-t)
        common words: trio = bit = so = d (4-t)
        uncommon words: garni = fide = wey = rf = l (5-t)
        uncommon words: minie = dued = ipa = so = d (5-t)
        uncommon words: nards = mink = duc = ir = q (5-t)
        uncommon words: oriel = wids = nek = it = o (5-t)
        uncommon words: dowts = orca = wob = hm = u (5-t)
        uncommon words: grouf = octo = lie = cd = y (5-t)
        ... and 4 others
c.  chaotic words (no repeated differences between adjacent letters), longest [23-180]
        common words: misapprehension, euphemistically, uncontroversial, impressionistic, interrogatories, physiotherapist, macroscopically, expressionistic, overzealousness, microenterprise, accomplishments, tyrannosauruses (15-t)
        uncommon words: autosuggestibility, hemibasidiomycetes, photofluoroscopies (18-t)
d.  chaotic pairs (no repeated inter-letter shifts), longest [23-110]
        interpret, statesman (9)

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