Since Jeff Shallit tightened the rules, I'll generalize the other direction and loosen them: at each step delete one letter, then anagram what remains. I do this only to have a chance to reporoduce the following "transdeletion pyramid" from Eckler's book: A N T I C E R E M O N I A L I S T N O N M A T E R I A L I S T I C R E C I T A T I O N A L I S M R E C L A M A T I O N I S T R E M A S T I C A T I O N C R E M A T I O N I S T C R E A T I O N I S M R E M I C A T I O N M A N T I C O R E R E A C T I O N C E R T A I N R E T A I N T R A I N R A N T T A N A N A I don't know what REMICATION is, sadly; Eckler indicates that it's an inferred word based on M-W Unabridged. --Michael Kleber kleber@brandeis.edu