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Six Letters And Eight Words (Posted on 2003-07-31) Difficulty: 3 of 5
What word begins with 'h', ends with 'n', contains six letters, and contains eight words besides itself without transposing a single letter?

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I found four solutions, with the first, hairen, a word meaning hairy, containing nine words (yet itself may be considered obsolete or, at least, uncommon):

hairen: ha, hair, a, ai, air, I, ire, re, en 
hatpin: ha, hat, a, at, pi, pin, I, in
herein: he, her, here, ere, re, rein, I, in
hitman: hi, hit, I, it, ma, man, a, an

  Posted by Dej Mar on 2008-06-08 10:03:35
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