Word games! What is the longest alphabetic sequence of letters that is used in an English word?

By alphabetic sequence, I mean 'abc', 'bcd', cdef', etc. At least three letters. Examples of words that contains an alphabetic sequence are 'first', which contains the three-letter sequence 'rst', and 'define', which contains the sequence 'def'.

Anybody know of a long one, five letters or more?

Please, don't make up any nonsense.

Any puzzles or games involveing such sequences?

18 MAR 08, 0250 hrs, GMT.

OVERSTUFF (RSTU)
GYMNOPLAST (MNOP)

I don't think there's any with five consecutive letters.

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2 Comments

  1. DANIEL G
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 4:19 am | Permalink

    OVERSTUFF (RSTU)
    GYMNOPLAST (MNOP)

    I don't think there's any with five consecutive letters.
    References :

  2. bruhaha
    Posted June 30, 2009 at 4:40 am | Permalink

    Actually "RSTU" appears in 10 different forms (3 different root words):

    overstuff, overstuffed, overstuffing, overstuffs
    superstud, superstuds
    understudied, understudies, understudy, understudying
    References :

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