Beheadment
A word or phrase becomes another when its first letter is removed. Examples:
(f)actor; or (u)sable. If the parts of the solution are all single words, the length of only the longest is given; any part which is a phrase is enumerated.
Beheadments occasionally include more than two words. A famous example is aspirate, spirate, pirate, irate, rate, ate.
In a bigram beheadment, a word or phrase becomes another when its first two letters are removed: (de)livery.
In a phonetic beheadment, a word or phrase becomes another when its first sound is removed. All parts are enumerated. Example: basalt, assault. For more discussion, see phonetic flats.
In a reversed beheadment, after beheading the first word, reverse it to get the second. Example: petal, late.
In a palindrome beheadment, a word or phrase becomes another when a palindromic sequence of three or more letters is deleted from the beginning. Examples: (Roy Or)bison, (viv)idly, (selfles)sly.
In a multiple-palindrome beheadment, a word or phrase becomes another when two or more palindrome strings are deleted sequentially from the beginning. Example: (Iri)(sh s)(ette)r.