What words have letters in various unusual orders (alphabetical, etc.)?

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Problem

What words have letters in various unusual orders (alphabetical, etc.)?

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  longest word with letters in order  AEGILOPS (8) reverse order (11-246)
   SPONGED  alternating forward-reverse (roller-coaster word) (22-175,239)
   PSEUDOHYOSCYAMINE 
  longest word with letters from first half of alphabet 
   FIDDLEDEEDEE  last half (5-226,12-91) NONSUPPORTS (11)
  longest word constant-letter-shifted to another (L139,2-24,11-188,12-243,
   13-27) PRIMERO-SULPHUR  arithmetical-letter-shifted (12-50) DREAM-ETHER
    constant-shift-with-transposal (shiftgrams) (12-218,13-22,88,182)
   AEROPHANE-SILVERITE 
  longest word with no letters in alphabetical place 
   abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
   TRINITROPHENYLMETHYLNITRAMINE 
  word with most letters in alphabetical place 
   AbCdEfghIjkL     shifted mNOPqRsTuVw
   ARCHETYPICAL          INOPERATIVE (6)
  word with most consecutive letters in order consecutively 
   UNDE(RSTU)DY 
  word with most consecutive letters in order 
   AMBUSCADE (5,A-E)
  word with most consecutive letters  PERQUISITION (8,N-U)
  highest ratio of consecutive letters/length (L168,4-10,144,5-22,11-36,108,
   12-169,15-77,151,154,212,16-156) FEEDBACK (6/8)