Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!eagle!alice!research!dmr From: dmr@research.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Consecutive-letter words Message-ID: <357@research.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 23:53:17 EDT Article-I.D.: research.357 Posted: Thu Jun 23 23:53:17 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 16:11:29 EDT Lines: 36 These are in /usr/dict/words and have 4 consecutive letters in sequence. I count wraparounds z->a. analyzable hydrolyzable overstuff understudy These are in Webster's Second Unabridged. I took out close derivatives. afterstudy analyzable cremnophobia dialyzable electrolyzable gymnopaedic gymnophiona gymnoplast hydrolyzable limnophile limnoplankton overstud overstudy overstuff plasmolyzable Semnopithecus somnopathy superstuff thamnophile understuff I didn't find any with 5. By the way, most problems of this type fall easily to grep. In this case there was no grep pattern obvious to me, so I just used fgrep 'abcd bcde ...'