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Letters Selected from Given SetEntire Wordspelled with chemical symbols, longest [7-198,9-42,12-217,32-288,33-60,65,104,191,47-310]
common word: underrepresentation (19)
uncommon word: hypothalamicohypophyseals (25)
phrases: subcutaneous fat necrosis of newborn, there's no business like show business (32-t)
a. spelled with element symbols in atomic-number order, longest [35-42]
e.g. SIPS (Si P S, 14-16), CLARK (Cl Ar K, 17-19), CONIC (Co Ni Cu, 27-29)
b. nested chemical symbols (element symbols embedded in one another) [WW52.2-38]
e.g. SABLE: B (boron) inside Al inside Se; FABLE: B in Al in Fe; NOISE: I in Os in Ne
c. most element names spellable from a word's letters [WW52.1-35]
e.g. turbomachines (13 element names); nanobiopharmaceuticals (29)
d. elemental word (replacing a chemical symbol by the element's name gives another word: sated, sulphurated)
[4-46,4-51,4-169]
e.g. SATED -> SULFURATED, FEY -> IRONY, CATER -> CARBONATER
e. periodic-table king's-move word (element symbols in adjacent cells of the periodic table spell the word) [48-45]
e.g. SPONSONS: S, P, O, N, S, O, N, S by king's moves on the periodic table; BACS (Ba, Cs)
f. spelled with element symbols, or initials in atomic order [31-317,WW52.2-26]
e.g. BaCoN (Ba Co N); CaNiNe (Ca Ni Ne)
spelled with overlapping chemical symbols, longest [28-94,149,210,29-82,160]
common word: fraternization (14)
uncommon word: paternalisticall (16)
phrases: fraternal insurance, ratline, ratling line (18-t)
spelled with two-letter U.S. postal codes, longest [9-91,19-183,23-217]
common words: armorial, calamari, calamine, cascaras, ganymede, guarneri, guillain, inguinal, inviscid, mahimahi, mainland,
malarial, malarias, mandalas, mandarin, megawatt, melamine, memorial, moorland, ... and 2 others (8-t)
uncommon words: convallarias, cacogalactia (12-t)
a. postal-code text (sentence spelled entirely by concatenated two-letter state abbreviations) [48-183]
e.g. DE CO PA RI SC HI DE SD OR KS IN VA IN = Deco Paris chides dorks in vain
spelled with overlapping two-letter U.S. postal codes, longest [9-241,19-233]
common words: hilarities, invariable, invariably, invariance, invariants, invincible, invincibly, mascarpone, warinesses
(10-t)
uncommon words: ascaridiases, ascaridiasis, ascaridioses, ascaridiosis, ascaridoidea, malarialized, ascaridesses,
ascaridorida, cascarillins, ... and 16 others (12-t)
phrases: cascarilla bark, cascarilla oils, malarial fevers (14-t)
spelled with piano notes, longest [L167,7-116,11-38,27-38,35-138]
common words: acceded, babbage, baggage, cabbage, defaced, effaced (7-t)
uncommon words: bedeaffed, decafaced (9-t)
hyphenated words: face-bedded, cabbage-bed, beaded-edge (10-t)
Morse code [1-207,8-209,13-159]
a. specific patterns of dots and dashes
i. Morse code is entirely dots, longest
common word: sissies (7)
uncommon words: sheeshehs, seisesses (9-t)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
ii. Morse code is entirely dashes, longest
common word: motto (5)
uncommon word: tootmoot (8)
iii. Morse code is entirely dot-dashes, longest
common word: entente (7)
iv. Morse code is entirely dash-dots, longest
common word: tartar (6)
uncommon word: karnten (7)
v. Morse code is entirely dot-dot-dashes, longest
common words: erred, fetid, frena (5-t)
uncommon words: faiteed, iterred, itititi (7-t)
vi. Morse code is entirely dot-dash-dots, longest
common word: retinae (7)
uncommon words: retinene, afaiteed, afreteed, reteeter (8-t)
vii. Morse code is entirely dot-dash-dashes, longest
common word: empty (5)
uncommon word: ettette (7)
viii. Morse code is entirely dash-dot-dashes, longest
common words: tempt, twang (5-t)
uncommon word: yeggman (7)
phrase: yatata yatatay (13)
ix. Morse code is entirely dash-dash-dots, longest
common word: mayan (5)
uncommon word: mayetta (7)
b. sequence of repeated dots in Morse code, longest
common word: hashishes (20)
uncommon words: bachshishes, shshshes (25-t)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (54)
c. sequence of repeated dashes in Morse code, longest
common word: bottommost (15)
uncommon words: myomotomy, tootmoot, celiomyomotomy, laparomyomotomy (17-t)
phrase: bottom to top (18)
d. Morse code for each letter is 1 symbol, longest
common word: tee (3)
uncommon word: ettette (7)
e. Morse code for each letter is 2 symbols, longest
common words: manama, manana, mannan, minima (6-t)
uncommon words: ainamania, amamamama, anananana, aninanina, annamanna (9-t)
f. Morse code for each letter is 3 symbols, longest
common word: woodworks (9)
uncommon word: kooskoosoos (11)
g. Morse code for each letter is 4 symbols, longest
common word: flyby (5)
uncommon words: fyxyll, xyllyx (6-t)
h. palindrome in Morse code, longest
common word: intransigence (13)
uncommon word: bergsoniannest (14)
hyphenated word: heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh (18)
i. isomorse pair (same Morse code words if pauses are ignored) [6-187,8-171,209]
i. longest well-mixed
common words: chagrins & chatterers (10-t)
common words: chillies & cheeriness (10-t)
common words: cocking & contenting (10-t)
common words: deceitful & dentifrice (10-t)
common words: glauber & generative (10-t)
common words: greenwing & generating (10-t)
common words: quaking & quantitate (10-t)
common words: candles & tenacities (10-t)
common words: krills & tendinitis (10-t)
... and 27 others
uncommon words: epicedialler & uninterestedler (15)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: limberness & reimburses (25)
uncommon words: cobdenitisher & confinelesser (33-t)
uncommon words: nonvolubly & nonsociably (33-t)
phrases: hand gallops & signature loans (34)
iii. longest list
common words: babe & bans & bath & begs & digs & duns & nips & bates & deans & death & dimes (11)
uncommon words: bls & bais & basi & beds & blei & bres & dels & dids & dinh & dusi & nils & thds & baese &
bedie & benes & bethe & betis & betsi & deeds & delie & deres & didie & dines & dinse &
duese & neels & neids & neuis & niais & teils & tevis & tiels & betees & deedie & teires &
testis & tieres & testees (38-t)
uncommon words: bah & brs & duh & baes & base & bebe & bens & beth & blee & brei & brie & deli & didi &
dins & dith & dues & duse & nefs & nili & tifs & bedee & betes & deens & deeth & delee &
dites & neers & neith & neues & neuse & teirs & teves & tiers & deedee & neinei & teeins &
testes & tsetse (38-t)
hyphenated words: bls & bais & basi & basi- & beds & blei & bres & dels & dids & dinh & dusi & nils & thds &
baese & bedie & benes & bethe & betis & betsi & deeds & delie & deres & didie & dines &
dinse & duese & neels & neids & neuis & niais & teils & tevis & tiels & betees & deedie &
teires & testis & tieres & testees (39)
phrases: atomic number & atomic number 1 & atomic number 10 & atomic number 100 & atomic number 101 & atomic
number 102 & atomic number 103 & atomic number 104 & atomic number 105 & atomic number 106 & atomic
number 107 & atomic number 108 & atomic number 109 & atomic number 11 & atomic number 110 & atomic
number 111 & atomic number 112 & atomic number 113 & atomic number 114 & atomic number 115 & atomic
number 116 & atomic number 12 & atomic number 13 & atomic number 14 & atomic number 15 & atomic
number 16 & atomic number 17 & atomic number 18 & atomic number 19 & atomic number 2 & atomic
number 20 & atomic number 21 & atomic number 22 & atomic number 23 & atomic number 24 & atomic
number 25 & atomic number 26 & atomic number 27 & atomic number 28 & atomic number 29 & atomic
number 3 & atomic number 30 & atomic number 31 & atomic number 32 & atomic number 33 & atomic
number 34 & atomic number 35 & atomic number 36 & atomic number 37 & atomic number 38 & atomic
number 39 & atomic number 4 & atomic number 40 & atomic number 41 & atomic number 42 & atomic
number 43 & atomic number 44 & atomic number 45 & atomic number 46 & atomic number 47 & atomic
number 48 & atomic number 49 & atomic number 5 & atomic number 50 & atomic number 51 & atomic
number 52 & atomic number 53 & atomic number 54 & atomic number 55 & atomic number 56 & atomic
number 57 & atomic number 58 & atomic number 59 & atomic number 6 & atomic number 60 & atomic
number 61 & atomic number 62 & atomic number 63 & atomic number 64 & atomic number 65 & atomic
number 66 & atomic number 67 & atomic number 68 & atomic number 69 & atomic number 7 & atomic
number 70 & atomic number 71 & atomic number 72 & atomic number 73 & atomic number 74 & atomic
number 75 & atomic number 76 & atomic number 77 & atomic number 78 & atomic number 79 & atomic
number 8 & atomic number 80 & atomic number 81 & atomic number 82 & atomic number 83 & atomic
number 84 & atomic number 85 & atomic number 86 & atomic number 87 & atomic number 88 & atomic
number 89 & atomic number 9 & atomic number 90 & atomic number 91 & atomic number 92 & atomic
number 93 & atomic number 94 & atomic number 95 & atomic number 96 & atomic number 97 & atomic
number 98 & atomic number 99 (117)
iv. highest word to symbol ratio [8-171]
common words: d & ne & ti & tee (1.33)
uncommon words: bf & ber & bin & bue & def & dir & nif & thr & been & bite & deer & dein & deue & diae &
dien & neef & neir & neve & nier & niin & niue & thae & then & tief & tive & tsin & neien &
neste & teier & thete & tiein & tiste (4)
hyphenated words: bf & ber & bin & bin- & bue & def & dir & nif & thr & been & bite & deer & dein & dein- &
deue & diae & dien & neef & neir & neve & nier & niin & niue & thae & then & tief & tive &
tsin & neien & neste & teier & thete & tie-in & tiein & tiste (4.37)
v. no two Morse sequences decode to same letter, longest list
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j. Morse code reversal pair (reversed Morse code words if pauses are ignored)
i. longest
common words: identical & internecine (11-t)
common words: fracture & intertwined (11-t)
common words: preempted & intemperate (11-t)
common words: shipping & antipathies (11-t)
common words: urgently & maintenance (11-t)
uncommon words: dielectrical & interdentallest (15)
phrases: hind clipping & antipatheticales (16)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: shipping & antipathies (24-t)
common words: shivering & wavinesses (24-t)
uncommon words: fisherville & effeeblished (32)
phrases: hind clipping & antipatheticales (36)
k. iskot pair (reverse dots and dashes and ignore pauses in Morse code to form another word) [12-216]
i. longest
common words: nostalgia & lamentation (11)
uncommon words: metacromion & intermediatest (14)
ii. longest measured in number of dots and dashes
common words: nostalgia & lamentation (22)
uncommon words: meteoromancy & innerdirected (28)
phrases: second banana & once upon a time (30)
Telephone keypad [29-120,30-304,32-67,33-135,225]
a. isotel pair (word spells out same telephone number as another word) [3-168,8-227,11-215]
i. longest well-mixed
common words: comprising & conspiring (10)
uncommon words: peppershaker & repressibles (12-t)
uncommon words: anthonomuses & antimonouser (12-t)
uncommon words: pretensaries & pseudoraphes (12-t)
uncommon words: pretensorier & pseudosopher (12-t)
uncommon words: peppershaker & repressibler (12-t)
uncommon words: terrificaler & versifiabler (12-t)
ii. isotel pair with no letters in common, longest
common words: astride & brushed (7-t)
common words: amounts & contour (7-t)
common words: astride & crushed (7-t)
common words: damaged & ecocide (7-t)
common words: hotbeds & invader (7-t)
common words: medford & offense (7-t)
uncommon words: wrackeder & yscaldeds (9)
b. spelled with consecutive letters on adjacent keys, longest for each letter
see list Longest Word with Consecutive Letters Adjacent on Phone Keypad, Beginning with Each Letter
c. spelled with even phone keys, longest
common words: communicating, communication, contaminating, contamination (13-t)
uncommon words: monocontaminating, monocontamination (17-t)
phrase: invitation to combat (18)
d. spelled with odd phone keys, longest
common word: selflessly (10)
uncommon words: derepresseder, expresslesser, redresslesser (13-t)
e. spelled using all phone keys, shortest [32-85,WW51.2-16]
common words: adroitly, dilatory, enthalpy, foxtails, gunwales, haylofts, idolatry, keypunch, playtime, uneasily,
unfairly (8-t)
f. spelled using phone keys in groups, longest
common word: irredeemably (12)
uncommon word: monosyllabizeed (15)
g. telephomnemonic (word or phrase spelled by the keypad letters of a telephone number) [14-116]
e.g. HOLY PIG = 465-9744
spelled with amino acid abbreviations, longest
common word: serval (6)
phrase: prophecy's (9)
spelled with overlapping amino acid abbreviations, longest
common word: valais (6)
spelled with Roman numerals, longest [32-59,37-263]
common words: civic, civil, dilli, livid, mimic, villi, vivid (5-t)
uncommon word: dividivi (8)
a. chronogram (the Roman-numeral letters of a text sum to a year) [15-143,24-182,TJ3-86,TJ12-38]
e.g. Christians Develop Xenophobia = CDX = 410 (barbarians plunder Rome)
e.g. Magna Carta Contract eXhibits Virtue = MCCXV = 1215
b. Roman window (stretch of text containing all seven Roman-numeral letters; ideal, ordered and perfect windows) [47-27]
e.g. de[mand. No other school text-books have retai]ned: M D C L X V I in order (35 letters)
e.g. e[xclaimed v]ehemently: all seven Roman letters once in 9 letters
zodiacal signs, longest [15-110,152]months, longest [15-110,152]isosephy [14-215,30-260]"nice" words (letters in "nice" minus letters not in "nice")
common word: inconvenience (9)
hyphenated word: nine-nine-nine (12)
spelled with chess-notation letters (KQRBNP the only consonants), longest [31-140,31-221]
e.g. kinnikinnik (only K and N), Purbrook Park; quasi-bankrupt contains all six
spelled with vitamin letters (ABCDEFGHJKLP), longest [34-56,34-292]
e.g. CABBAGE-HEADED, PEBBLE-BEACHED, ADDLEHEADED
Greek letter-name transposal (letters rearrange into the names of two Greek letters) [36-254]
e.g. AUTHOR = TAU + RHO; UNIX = XI + NU
dartboard word (numbers on adjacent dartboard sectors read as letters spell a word, clockwise or anticlockwise) [48-54]
e.g. TARD (20 1 18 4 clockwise), NILE (14 9 12 5), RATEL (18 1 20 5 12 anticlockwise)
Subset of WordTelephone keypad
a. spelled using all phone keys in order, shortest
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romantic word (contains a well-formed Roman numeral as a subsequence), for each value [WW51.1-49]
e.g. six (IX = 9), civic (CIV = 104), mix (MIX = 1009)
spelled with Greek letter names [9-171]
e.g. CHICHI (chi chi), PIETA (pi eta), MUMU (mu mu)
geogram (word spelled with two-letter ISO internet country codes), longest [29-206]
e.g. ST.RO.NG.AR.MS (strongarms), CH.EE.SE (cheese), JO.VI.AL (jovial)
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