Brain Teaser #11

[Greg Bernhardt]

Find the longest word such that each 3 letter subset (in order)is also a word:
e.g. CARED => CAR,ARE,RED is a 5 letter example

Words must be found in Websters. This will run a full day to insure everyone can find a large word.

[The Grimmus]

after scanning though some medical things lying near my computer i looked at SODIUM and saw sod yada yada yada

SOd-diu-ium all found in the websters dictionary...online

[The Grimmus]

wait wait wai...titanium

tit (yes it is in there) tan ium

i think it was websters dictionary

[anomaly]

monotone

Mon
Ono (yoko? - name)
not
oto (medical prefix? ie, otolaryngology)
ton
one

Just a shot in the dark! [g)]

[bogdan]

alee,ashen,ashy,band,bare,bark,barm,bate,boar,boat ,bowl,brag,bran,brand,brawl,bray,cant,cape,caper,c are,cart,code,cone,cope,coper,cowl,dado,dawn,done, eaten,fare,farm,farm,fate,feel,fend,fire,fore,frow n,gage,gape,gash,gasp,gate,hash,hasp,hate,here,hop e,howl,kink,lawn,lope,mage,manage,many,mare,mark,m art,mate,mope,mown,nape,node,open,opera,operate,pa le,pall,pant,paper,pare,park,part,pawn,pear,peat,p eat,pink,pope,prod,prow,prowl,rage,rant,rape,rapt, rate,reft,rode,sage,sago,sate,sawn,sear,seat,shew, sink,skid,skin,skit,sold,sown,spall,span,spar,spar e,spark,spat,spate,spawn,tape,taper,tare,tart,tear ,teat,tend,them,then,there,tone,tore,town,wage,wan d,want,ware,warm,wart,wash,washy,wasp,wend,whop,wi nk,year,your

A list of some words that follow that rule...

Some of the longest :

OPERATE -> OPE -> to open (poet.); PER -> meter PER second;
ERA ->...;RAT->...;ATE->...;

MANAGE -> MAN->...;ANA -> anecdote or literary gossip about a preson;NAG -> to irritate...;AGE -> ...

I used a dictionary of aprox. 60000 words...not 500000...but I think it's good enough...it has words from many domains (economy,mechanics...)

[Greg Bernhardt]

anomaly wins with 6!