Alphabetical words

[ESquared]

Name three seven-letter words that have all their letters in alphabetical order.

Name one nine-letter, two eight-letter, and nine seven-letter words that have all their letters in reverse alphabetical order. (Hint: one eight-letter word is the past tense of the nine-letter word.)

Repeated letters are allowed.

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• Every joy is beyond all others. The fruit we are eating is always the best fruit of all.
• It is waking that understands sleep and not sleep that understands waking. There is an ignorance of evil that comes from being young: there is a darker ignorance that comes from doing it, as men by sleeping lose the k

 

[snuv]

I found two in the right order but one was an eight letter word

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Billowy
Aegilops

Gimmors is a possible but I cant find a dictionary definition, just a reference in shakespeare
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"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary

 

[CajunCenturion]

[white]9 letter reverse:  spoonfeed[/white]

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[mscallisto]

I thought

[white]spoon-feed[/white]

has a hyphen

 

[ESquared]

mscallisto,

Spelling it with or without a hyphen is correct.

 

[mscallisto]

well I guess I stand corrected (it's not the first time!)

AND to add insult to injury I can't even find one seven-letter word!!! (but i'll continue trying)

You got to this forum, it keeps your head busy.

 

[vidru]

Found the same two forward alphabeticals as snuv (but a seven-letter alternate spelling), and one additional:

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Egilops
Alloquy[/color]

My dictionary db is waaaaaaaay incomplete, but here are eight, seven-letter reverse alphabeticals I've found (all past tense):

[COLOR=white]Sponged
Spooned
Spooked
Spooled
Sniffed
Trolled
Toffeed
Wooled
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-dave