The Task:
Scan from left to right a long word of your choice and extract letters , composing valid English words.

The following constraints apply:
i. The initial word contains no more than 15 letters.
ii. The selected words will be 3 letters or more.
iii. No proper names, no abbreviations.
iv. Slang words and words of foreign origin (like verbatim or sans) are allowed as long as they appear in at least one respectable dictionary.
v. Words created by adding "s" to a word already in a list are not allowed.
vi. The original long word of your choice is also discounted.

Example: if your word were procrastination the list could contain, inter alia: position, post, ion, rotation and many others.

The Challenge:
Create the longest list.

Team work (i.e. adding your words to another solver's list)
allowed and encouraged.

The word schoolmastering may have the longest list of sub-words, with 418 sub-words, within the given problem's criteria.

schoolmastering: ain, aster, astern, ate, cag, cain, can, cang, car, caring, carn, case, casein, casern, casing, cast, caste, caster, casting, cat, cate, cater, catering, cering, cha, chai, chain, chang, char, charing, chase, chaser, chasing, chaste, chasten, chaster, chat, che, cher, chi, chin, ching, chog, chola, cholate, choler, choli, chon, choom, choon, choose, chooser, choosing, choring, chose, chosen, cig, clag, clan, clang, clast, clat, cleg, cling, coast, coaster, coasting, coat, coate, coater, coati, coating, cog, coin, col, cola, cole, colin, colt, colter, colting, coma, comae, comate, come, comer, coming, coms, comte, con, coo, cooer, cooing, cool, cooler, cooling, coom, cooming, coon, coosen, cooser, coosin, coost, coot, cooter, cor, coring, corn, cos, cose, cosing, cost, coste, coster, costing, cot, cote, coting, eng, erg, ering, ern, hae, haeing, haen, hag, hain, han, hang, haring, harn, has, hast, haste, hasten, hasting, hat, hate, hater, hating, hen, her, hern, hin, hing, hoa, hoaing, hoar, hoaring, hoast, hoasting, hoe, hoeing, hoer, hog, hoi, hoing, hole, holing, holm, holme, hols, holstein, holster, holstering, holt, hom, homa, home, homer, homering, homing, hon, hong, hoo, hoon, hoor, hoot, hooter, hooting, hori, horn, hos, hose, hosen, hoser, hosing, host, hosting, hot, hote, hoten, ing, laer, laering, lag, lain, lang, lar, lari, larn, las, lase, laser, lasering, lasing, last, laster, lasting, lat, late, laten, later, lati, leg, lei, leng, lering, lig, lin, ling, mae, mag, main, man, mang, mar, marg, mas, mase, maser, masing, mast, master, mastering, masting, mat, mate, mater, matin, mating, meg, mein, men, meng, meri, mering, mig, ming, oar, oaring, oast, oat, oaten, oater, ole, olein, olm, oma, omen, omer, oms, oom, oon, oor, oos, oose, oot, org, ose, rig, rin, ring, sae, sag, sai, sain, san, sang, sar, sari, sarin, saring, saser, sasin, sat, sate, sati, satin, sating, scag, scan, scar, scaring, scat, scholar, school, schoole, schooler, schooling, schoolman, schoolmaster, schoolmate, schoolmen, sclate, sclating, scog, scoog, scoot, scooter, scootering, scooting, scoring, scorn, scot, scoter, seg, sei, sen, ser, serin, sering, sha, shag, shan, sharing, sharn, shaster, shat, she, shen, shin, sho, shoat, shoe, shoeing, shoer, shog, shola, shoo, shooing, shool, shoole, shooling, shoon, shoot, shooter, shooting, shoring, shorn, shot, shote, shri, sig, sin, sing, slae, slag, slain, slang, slat, slate, slater, slating, sling, sma, soar, soaring, sog, sol, sola, solan, solar, solate, solating, sole, solei, solein, soler, soli, soling, som, soma, soman, some, son, song, sool, soole, sooler, sooling, soom, sooming, soon, soot, soote, sooting, sori, soring, sorn, sos, sot, sri, stein, sten, stern, sting, strig, string, teg, tein, ten, tern, tig, tin, ting, trig, trin


The following is a list of 15-letter words with the longest list of sub-words as found within a selected group of word lists, followed by its sub-word count. It is possible that shorter length words may have as high or higher sub-word counts. (See Charlie's list where he provides two 14-letter words among the 15-letter words that have a large number of sub-words.) 
SCHOOLMASTERING 418
PROLETARIANISED 396
PARLIAMENTARILY 359
THERMOREGULATED 350
SPHAEROSIDERITE 343
TRANSPARENTISED 333
CHOLESTYRAMINES 323
SUPERSTIMULATED 322
SHOCKUMENTARIES 321
COUNTERPLEADING 320
CONTRAINDICATED 319
POLYCHLORINATED 319
PROLETARIANIZED 317
SUPERCALENDERED 315
BROKENHEARTEDLY 312
SUPERNATURALISE 312
SOFTHEARTEDNESS 308
MOUTHWATERINGLY 302
POSTOPERATIVELY 301
PULMOBRANCHIATE 301
UNPARLIAMENTARY 300

Edited on February 13, 2017, 5:57 am

Posted by Dej Mar on 2017-02-13 04:59:55