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Subject:      Re: Longest single word anagrams
From:         William Tunstall-Pedoe <william@genius2000.com> 
Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:56:09 +0000  
Message-Id:   <onpVipG50gq2Ew2l@genius2000.com>
Organization: Genius 2000 Software
Newsgroups:   alt.anagrams

In article <36A995F1.2006A150@pioneerplanet.infi.net>, Tom Risor <risor@pioneerplanet.infi.net> writes >Does anybody know what the two longest words in the English language are >which are anagrams? > >If so, please email me. > This last came up in 1996. I wrote a program to scan Crossword Maestro's database (three-quarters of a million entries) for long examples. A big issue is how mixed the anagrams are. Here is the list ignoring how mixed they are: (There are probably some chemical terms that are even longer.) 'sarcocarcinomata'='carcinosarcomata' 'dactylopteridae'='pterodactylidae' 'autoradiographic'='radioautographic' 'parallel of latitude'='parallel of altitude' 'pterylographical'='petrographically' 'nonconversational'='nonconservational' 'pathophysiological'='physiopathological' 'vaudeville theatre'='vaudeville theater' 'chlorobromomethane'='bromochloromethane' 'photomicrographic'='microphotographic' 'trifluorochloromethane'='chlorotrifluoromethane' 'telephotographic'='phototelegraphic' 'trichloronitromethane'='nitrotrichloromethane' 'misconfiguration'='configurationism' 'pathophysiologic'='physiopathologic' 'photomicrography'='microphotography' 'hypophysectomise'='hypophysectomies' 'nephrolithotomies'='lithonephrotomies' Here's the list when a requirement is added that no sequence of three letters can appear in both anagram and source: 'suprarational'='pro-Australian' 'protuberantial'='perturbational' 'cartilage cups'='supergalactic' 'cameralistic'='acclimatiser' 'cancelation's'='nonascetical' 'declamations'='anecdotalism' 'pharmacolite'='metaphorical' 'manometrical'='commentarial' 'spectatorial'='poetastrical' 'courtmartial'='matriculator' 'triangulated'='adulterating' 'refragmentation'='antiferromagnet' 'proletarianize'='prerealization' 'thysanopteran'='parasyntheton' 'stationarily'='antiroyalist' 'subretractile'='battle cruiser' 'subtractions'='obscurantist' 'subelongated'='obtuse-angled' 'undefinability'='unidentifiably' 'identifiably'='definability' 'nondialectic'='coincidental' 'reoccupation'='cornucopiate' 'semidecadently'='distance medley' 'unlicentiated'='Indian lettuce' 'undemocratise'='documentaries' 'preeducation'='deuteranopic' 'declination's'='nondeistical' 'tropicalised'='prediastolic' 'unmaledictory'='documentarily' 'vernier scale'='irrelevances' 'tracheophyte'='hypothecater' 'sectionalise'='nesosilicate' 'recreationist'='contrarieties' 'stereoptican'='inspectorate' 'pictorialness'='personalistic' 'replications'='inspectorial' 'semiromantic'='cremationism' 'miscreations'='romanticises' 'tropical sore'='prosectorial' 'incorporates'='procreations' 'meter reading'='regerminated' 'disagreement'='demagnetiser' 'striped gentian'='predestinating' 'man of letters'='forestalment' 'segregations'='Saint George's' 'mountaineers'='enumerations' 'remonstrates'='reassortment' 'germinations'='anti-Negroism' 'nonuniversalist'='involuntariness' 'strontianite'='interstation' 'tortoise plant'='petrol station' 'technetronic'='ethnocentric' 'mediocrities'='iridectomise' 'computerised'='pseudometric' 'cryptotermes'='spectrometry' 'limnocryptes'='polycentrism' 'superintended'='unpredestined' I know I have included phrases - ignore them if you are only interested in words. My favourite: 'suprarational'='pro-Australian' William --- Author of Anagram Genius the software and book http://www.genius2000.com/ag.html