Long Lettered Word Game #1

Rules:

1. Insert a new letter into the previous word, in any position, to form a new word.

2. OR, insert a new letter into the previous word, and rearrange all the letters to form a new word.

3. The purpose of each game is to create the longest word possible.

4. Names, Places or Plural words are permitted.

5. All words must be found in an English dictionary.

The first starting word is CAT.

[CVX]

scat

[Warsai]

casts

[Tombstone]

Looks like everyone is stuck! I can't come up with a longer word.

Let's start again:


EAT

[jwolf7722]

beat

[Tombstone]

i'll take it easy on myself.


beats

Tables

[plazul]

stable

[oldfred]

tablets

[Warsai]

I can't think of anything else:

stables