What is the longest word all of whose contiguous subsequences are words?
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What is the longest word all of whose contiguous subsequences are words?
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AMUSERS (7) AMUSERS->AMUSER->AMUSE->AMUS->AMU->AM MUSERS->MUSER->MUSE->MUS->MU USERS->USER->USE->US SERS->SER->SE ERS->ER RS All words are in Webster's Third unless otherwise indicated. Here are definitions for the less common words: AMU: a unit of mass, formerly an acronym for Atomic Mass Unit [RH2] MU: a Greek letter SER: a unit of weight in India, a variant of SEER [RH2, SOED] SE: a Chinese zither [SOED] ERS: ervil [RH2] ER: interjection used to express hesitation [RH2, SOED] RH2 = Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition SOED = Shorter Oxford English Dictionary