The last of these exists in an alternative spelling of aegilops, so there is the only eight-letter word.
- adelops
- animals whose feet are not visible
- alloquy
- act of speaking to another (as against soliloquy)
- beefily
- in a beefy fashion
- begorry
- variant of begorra, Irish expletive rarely heard
- billowy
- characterised by billows
- egilops
- (1) An ulcer of the eye; (2) a kind of grass
Apart from spoonfeed (which might be disallowed, since many dictionaries give it only as a hyphenated word spoon-feed), there are also no words longer than seven letters whose letters are in reverse alphabetical order. Among the seven-letter words, most are past tenses, such as
but there are also these oddities:
- sniffed
- spiffed
- sponged
- wronged
- troolie
- a palm tree
- tsoneca
- Patagonian tribe and its language