About 0.3% of words in an English dictionary have this property, including ait, bijou, dekko, dotty, and horst. The first is aah and the last is tux; the longest are beefily and billowy.

With all their letters in reverse alphabetical order, the first and last are baa and zymic, the longest are spoonfed and trollied.

Information extracted with a Perl script by Anu Garg, aka Wordsmith, the Nate-figure of a site called A.Word.A.Day for all your (English-)language curiosity.