words

public class Words
{
	static String[] words = {"peter", "mrK"};
	static String[][] scramble = new String[words.length][getCols()-longestWord(words)];
	static int col;
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		fillArray(scramble);
		int currentWord = 0;
		for (String word: words)
		{
			col = 0;
			for (int i = 0; i<word.length(); i++)
			{
				for (int n = 0; n<word.length(); n++)
					if (word.length()-i > n) {
						scramble[currentWord][col] = word.substring(n, word.length()-i);
						col++;
					}
			}
		currentWord++;
		}
		printGrid(scramble);
	}


	public static int getCols()
	{
		int cols = 0;
		for (String word: words)
		{
			for (int i = 0; i<word.length(); i++)
			{
				for (int n = 0; n<word.length(); n++)
					if (word.length()-i > n)
						cols++;
			}
		}
		return cols;
	}
	public static int longestWord(String[] wordArray)
	{
		String longWord = "";
		for (String word: wordArray)
			if (word.length() > longWord.length())
				longWord = word;
		return longWord.length();
	}
	public static void fillArray(String[][] grid)
	{
		for (int r = 0; r<grid.length; r++)
			for (int c = 0; c<grid[0].length; c++)
				grid[r][c] = "*";
	}
	public static void printGrid(String[][] grid)
	{
		for (String[] r: grid)
		{
			String row = "";
			for (String element: r)
			{
				if (!element.equals("*"))
					row+=element+"  ";
			}
			System.out.println(row);
		}

	}
}