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Word trivia: pairs of "nearly identical" 15-letter words 3

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How many pairs of 15-letter words can you identify that are identical except for the first letter?

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 23:55 (29Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 16:55 (29Nov04) Mountain Time
 
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Code: 
[COLOR=white white]capaciousnesses - rapaciousnesses
codifiabilities - modifiabilities
nationalization - rationalization
reclusivenesses - seclusivenesses

There are many re- and de- words similar to the following:
decolonizations - recolonizations
decommissioning - recommissioning[/color]


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Well done, Centurion ! As you alluded, you have still left room for others to contribute in both of your above categories.

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 18:14 (30Nov04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 11:14 (30Nov04) Mountain Time
 
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Code: 
[white]catathermometer
katathermometer
materfamiliases
paterfamiliases
nationalisation
rationalisation
nationalistical
rationalistical
nationalization
rationalization
decalcification
recalcification
decertification
recertification
decommissioning
recommissioning
decontamination
recontamination
demonetisations
remonetisations
disarrangements
misarrangements
distrustfulness
mistrustfulness
inalterableness
unalterableness
incommunicative
uncommunicative
indetermination
undetermination[/white]

Code: 
select word
from (
   select word from dictionary where wordlength = 15
) d inner join (
   select w = right(word,14) from dictionary where wordlength = 15
   group by right(word,14)
   having count(*) >= 2
) d2 on right(d.word,14) = d2.w
order by
   d2.w,
   word

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(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
 
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E"(Squared) for "Excellent" ! Have a star. Since I don't have access to "DICTIONARY", could you re-run your query to look for words "> 15 letters", as well?

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 16:41 (01Dec04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 09:41 (01Dec04) Mountain Time
 
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Code: 
[white]nationalisations
rationalisations
nationalizations
rationalizations
declassification
reclassification
demilitarization
remilitarization
depressibilities
repressibilities
incontrovertible
uncontrovertible
indiscriminating
undiscriminating
insubstantiality
unsubstantiality
nationalistically
rationalistically
declassifications
reclassifications
dedifferentiation
redifferentiation
indistinguishable
undistinguishable
ceratoconjunctivitis
keratoconjunctivitis[/white]

Code: 
select word
from (
   select word, wordlength from dictionary where wordlength >= 16
) d1 inner join (
   select wordlength, w = right(word,wordlength-1) from dictionary where wordlength >= 16
   group by wordlength, right(word,wordlength-1)
   having count(*) >= 2
) d2 on d1.wordlength = d2.wordlength and right(d1.word, d1.wordlength-1) = d2.w
order by
	d1.wordlength,
   d2.w,
   word

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
 
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Woo-hoo, Esquared ! Have another star!

And I believe that I have a pair that beats your 20-letter "c/keratoconjunctivitis" pair: Does it stand to reason that if we accept your "i/undistinguishable" pair that we should also accept the 23-letter pair of "i/undistinguishablenesses"? (Webster's actually agrees:
[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 20:09 (01Dec04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 13:09 (01Dec04) Mountain Time
 
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Bummer...Tek-Tips doesn't let me give you a second star. Someone else will have to be the one to make you more "starrable" [wink]

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 20:11 (01Dec04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 13:11 (01Dec04) Mountain Time
 
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Bummer...Tek-Tips doesn't let me give you a second star. Someone else will have to be the one to make you more "starrable" [wink]

[santa]Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
@ 20:11 (01Dec04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"),
@ 13:11 (01Dec04) Mountain Time
 
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I would like to point out that some of the words I listed also differ only by one letter, but not the first letter:

Code: 
[white][red]n[/red]ationali[blue]s[/blue]ations [red]n[/red]ationali[blue]z[/blue]ations
[red]r[/red]ationali[blue]s[/blue]ations [red]r[/red]ationali[blue]z[/blue]ations[/white]

These together make a sort of four-cell matrix.

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(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)
 
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