So? Do a mapping. map all your words to four-character short names (take the next item from 'aaaa'..'zzzz', thanks to ++ this is easy).

Then do your glob with glob. Then map all results through a "find 4 characters and replace them with the mapping" operations. Like magic!

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update: If you think about this, it's a bit like how I came up with what was later called "the Schwartzian transform". When you can't solve a problem in one space, map it to another space, do the solution, then map it back. It's a common pattern of mine for solving things.