what is the longest word that reads backward giving another meaning. like dog=god , recap=pacer, animal=lamina

Question

It was asked once but the answers received were not suitable. The senders cannot differenciate the words 'anagram' and 'plain anagram'. Plain anagram means the letters of a given word should not be suffled. Hence, here i asked the question in a different angle.

Answer 1

Perhaps part of the problem is that "plain anagram" is your own coinage. There are several other terms used for it. The most fun is the one invented by Lewis Caroll -- "Semiordnilap" (the reverse of "palindrome")
http://www.anagrammy.com/anagrams/faq3.html

Other terms are variations of palindrome or anagram, or some combination of the two, such as:

heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes,
reversgrams, reversible anagrams, word reversals, anadromes
[Wikipedia also lists "antigram", but this term is generally used to describe a pair of anagrams with opposite MEANINGS]

There are three eight-letter sets of these:

desserts – stressed
dioramas – samaroid
redrawer – rewarder

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semordnilap


Related to this, you might enjoy the following sentence -- a palindrome, but constructed with three sets of anadromes:

"rats live on no evil star"
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/palindromes?view=uk

Answer 2

To the guy above me- they're asking for a word that has a different word when read backwards. You gave one that's the same both ways.

The longest one I could find was stressed-desserts.

Answer 3

REDIVIDER...and it's a palindrome, not an anagram.

Edit:
I've seen DETARTRATED on some trivia channels in MIRC but it really isn't in common usage so I didn't consider it for your answer.

Answer 4

Did you hear the one about the sleepwalking dislexic atheist.....
wandering in the night looking for a dog?