From a list like http://www.absp.org.uk/words/study2lw.shtml

All 2-letter subwords of these words are valid. There are 280,000 words in the official list, and 5,803 of those are composed entirely of tlws. There are 127 tlws, so if we made our mnemonic out of 6-letter words, we would need 22 words.  This is 27 plus IN/OR/ON/ARE for readability, so not so far off.

  1. ZEALOUS LOYAL FEDAYEE IN BASINET JAMMED YAGI ON NABOBISH GUNYAH
  2. KOOKY KAMAAINA CHAWED ON PEANUT OR HAREWOOD OR TAXUS
  3. ZOEAE OR MUREX IN KIDEL ARE TEREFA IN KALI YUG
  4. FASTIDIOUS LION MUST EAT JOMOS OR TABEFY
  5. BOEHMITES
BASINET    a light helmet, also BASCINET, BASNET [n -S]
BOEHMITES  (German) a mineral present in bauxite, a hydroxide of aluminium [n]
CHAWED     CHAW, to chew esp. tobacco [v]
FEDAYEE    (Arabic) an Arab commando [n FEDAYEEN]
GUNYAH     A Native Australian's hut [n -S]
HAREWOOD   stained sycamore wood, used for making furniture [n -S]
JOMOS      JOMO, a cross between a yak and a cow, also ZHO, DSO, DZHO, DZO [n]
KALI       (Arabic) the prickly saltwort or glasswort
KALI YUG   The last of the four ages described in Sanskrit scriptures.
KAMAAINA   (Hawaiian) a longtime resident of Hawaii [n -S]
KIDEL      (historical) a stake-fence set in a stream for catching fish, also KIDDLE [n -S]
MUREX      (Latin) a genus of shellfish, yielding a purple dye [n MUREXES or MURICES]
NABOBISH   like a nabob [adj]
TABEFY     to waste away [v TABEFIED, TABEFYING, TABEFIES]
TAXUS      (Latin) a member of the yew genus of evergreen shrubs [n TAXUS]
TEREFA     (Hebrew) not ritually clean, not kosher, also TEREFAH, TRAYF, TREF, TREFA, TREFAH, TREIF, TREIFA, TREYF, TREYFA   
YAGI       (Japanese) a type of shortwave antenna [n -S]
YUG        (Sanskrit) one of the four Hindu ages of the world, also YUGA [n -S]
ZOEAE      ZOEA, (Greek) the larval stage of crabs, also ZOOEA, ZOOEA [n]
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