Q1 has been asked before and I couldn't see it then; but if you look at the attachment you'll see I have put all the letters into a Wordfinder, I suggest you look through the 6 letter words to find two that could go together and then play around with the remaining letters.
Sorry I'm up at 5.15am so I've neither the time nor the will-to-live enough to go any further. Good luck - let us know if you find anything.
Sorry it doesn't carry forward what I'd done, so enter all letters, press 'find words' and when it gives a list tick the 'display' 'arrow up' circles in 'length' and submit again.