gbarr
I thought you were the first one to answer the call on all aspects, however, you have a flaw. It only returns the first instance of the longest word. If I change the letters to "d u n s c a e y z" it will only print out "ascend" It will not print out all the longest words. 
sub f {
#        1         2         3         4         5
#234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
my%h;$h{$_}++for@_;my@b;push @{$b[length]},$_ for grep{
#    6        7         8         9         0         1
#789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123
my%g=%h;$g{$_}--for/./gi;!grep{$_<0}values%g}<D>;@{$b[-1]}
}

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I added on stroke to make it case insensitive, but I'm not sure how to make it print out all possible answers rather then just the first one.

Stuffy
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