The same change can be made to each of the words below so that the result will be a very specific list. The order of the words is important. 

Hope

Heavy

Livid 

Beast

Brag

Coat

Nest

Odor

Fort

Never 

 

HINTS:
1. It has to do with dropping letters.

2. It has to with science.

 

Answer:

 

Dropping the last three letters of each word will leave the chemical symbols of the first ten elements of the Periodic Table:

 

Hope - H ydrogen

Heavy - He lium

Livid - Li thium

Beast- Be ryllium

Brag - B oron

Coat - C arbon

Nest - N itrogen

Odor - O xygen

Fort - F luorine

Never - Ne on