UOE - unowned
UOI
UOI - bubonic, plutonic
UOO - buffoon
UOU
UOU = Unwound
UUA next.
usual
UUE
UUE - tubule
UUI
UUI = subduing
Next UUO
unbutton
UUU
THis is kind of tough. Best I could come up with are:
unfurrow
unquoth
put-upon
all of which are questionable. I don’t consider UUO done yet, but I do have some offerings for UUU.
Simulpost. Cleverly done don’t ask
UUU
mundungus
Cumulus.
Nice game MaxTheVool. I’m just about ready for another.
I know it’s over, but I wanted to add:
succubus
I thought I had UUO with unctuous, but then I realized there was an extra vowel.
Great job, don’t ask.
Well, actually it’s not over because (unless I missed it), we skipped UII. So I’ll just take the wrapup and post…
Squinting
If anyone wants to do a round 2, with the caveat that you can’t re-use words used in this round, I put up a quick and dirty spreadsheet of this round’s words here.
This was fun. Thanks, MaxTheVool.
Maybe next round we start each word with the first vowel (though we will need to allow propper nouns for the more difficult triples)
Or maybe we should try the 625 quadruples, or for the longest possible 25 doubles.
MaxTheVool this is your game, and so your call
For reference, here are all the words we came up with so far:
AAA- banana
AAE- agave
AAI- again
AAO- tarragon
AAU- abacus
AEA- baseball
AEE- agree
AEI- rarebit
AEO- Mandelbrot
AEU- careful
AIA- aircraft
AIE- canine
AII- maiming
AIO- hairdo
AIU- cranium, painful
AOA- anorak
AOE- arose
AOI- haploid
AOO- baboon
AOU- around, mahout
AUA- aura, aural
AUE- astute
AUI- audit
AUO- auto, author
AUU- alumnus
EAA- errata
EAE- behaved, eased, peace
EAI- earring
EAO- peacock
EAU- beau
EEA- cheetah
EEE- expected, fevered, tepee
EEI- feverish
EEO- electron
EEU- eventful
EIA- pleiad
EIE- edited, either
EII- emitting
EIO- session
EIU- medium
EOA- bemoan
EOE- elope
EOI- rejoin
EOO- reboot, bedroom
EOU- redoubt
EUA- feudal
EUE- elude, etude
EUI- begrudging
EUO- neuron
EUU- seppuku, speculum
IAA- riata
IAE- pirate
IAI- finalist, impair
IAO- diamond
IAU- hiatus, dial-up
IEA- dietary
IEE- sieve
IEI- grieving
IEO- video
IEU- lieu
IIA- minimal
IIE- willies
III- dividing
IIO- libido
IIU- minibus
IOA- viola
IOE- riposte
IOI- tinfoil
IOO- igloo
IOU- pinout
IUA- visual
IUE- immune
IUI- intuit
IUO- liquor, simulpost
IUU- vinculum
OAA- Shoshana, Osama, O'hara, Osaka, Bonanza
OAE- prostate
OAI- bombastic
OAO- potato
OAU- onslaught
OEA- ocean
OEE- opened
OEI- prosthetic
OEO- forefront
OEU- poseur, Proteus, prospectus
OIA- comical
OIE- polished
OII- politic, foisting
OIO- poison
OIU- modicum
OOA- coolant, onboard
OOE- spooler, oboe
OOI- robotics
OOO- poltroon
OOU- coconut
OUA- outcast
OUE- mouse
OUI- houri
OUO- outpost
OUU- conundrum
UAA- guava
UAE- suave
UAI- quail
UAO- muchacho
UAU- luau
UEA- muleta
UEE- rupee, queen
UEI- pummeling
UEO- successor, pueblo
UEU- unhelpful
UIA- umbria, jubilant
UIE- united
UII- squinting
UIO- curio, union
UIU- unskillful
UOA- quota, unload
UOE- unowned
UOI- bubonic, plutonic
UOO- buffoon
UOU- unwound
UUA- usual
UUE- tubule
UUI- subduing
UUO- unbutton, unfurrow, unquoth, put-upon
UUU- mundungus, succubus
If we go with another round and have to start off with the first letter being the first vowel, then I’ll start with aardvark.
Next: AAE
If we go to quadruples, then I’ll kick it off with Alabama.
Next: AAAE
I agree, though, that we’ll let Max decide which way to proceed.
Ack! So much responsibility, and I’m so young…
Ummm, I’d say that first we need to polish up our first 125 entries. Some are proper nouns, and some are far from being common English words, and using weird Scrabble-player-only words takes some of the fun out of it. Looking at the spreadsheet Shayna provided, I question:
Mandelbrot (is it also a type of bread or cookie in addition to being a fractal set named after a mathematician?)
Pleiad (of two definitions I found, one seems to be capitalized, and one is extremely obscure)
Riata (never heard of it before now, and it seems quite Spanish)
Muleta (another one I’d never heard of… are other people familiar with this word?)
As for another round, hmmm… we could try to do all 625 quads, but it might be easier to do them in groups than specifically in order… So I suggest we start with AAxx’s, and go until we get 20+ of the 25 total, then move on to AExx’s and so forth, keeping track of ones we’ve missed so that we can attempt to polish off the entire list.
So first AA’s, I’ll toss out a few, and try to keep copying this as you go:
AAAA:
AAAE: Alabaster
AAAI: Anagraming
AAAO:
AAAU:
AAEA:
AAEE: Amazement
AAEI:
AAEO:
AAEU:
AAIA:
AAIE:
AAII:
AAIO:
AAIU:
AAOA:
AAOE:
AAOI:
AAOO:
AAOU:
AAUA:
AAUE:
AAUI:
AAUO:
AAUU:
Oh, how could I forget my favorite AAxx word:
AAIO: Armadillo
Wow. Thanks, Shayna and dwc1970!
Keeping the list going. Looking at MaxTheVool’s starters, are we focusing only on words starting with the vowels?
AAAA:
AAAE: Alabaster
AAAI: Anagraming
AAAO:
AAAU:
AAEA: Anathema
AAEE: Amazement
AAEI: Analgesic
AAEO:
AAEU:
AAIA: Arabian
AAIE:
AAII:
AAIO: Armadillo
AAIU:
AAOA:
AAOE:
AAOI:
AAOO:
AAOU:
AAUA:
AAUE:
AAUI:
AAUO:
AAUU:
I’ll throw 2 on the list.
AAAA:
AAAE: Alabaster
AAAI: Anagraming
AAAO:
AAAU:
AAEA: Anathema
AAEE: Amazement
AAEI: Analgesic
AAEO:
AAEU: Amateur
AAIA: Arabian
AAIE:
AAII:
AAIO: Armadillo
AAIU:
AAOA:
AAOE: Abalone
AAOI:
AAOO:
AAOU:
AAUA:
AAUE:
AAUI:
AAUO:
AAUU:
As far as I’m concerned, we’re not limiting ourselves to words that start with vowels. And I think that “Arabian” is always capitalized, and thus doesn’t count.
AAAA:
AAAE: Alabaster
AAAI: Anagraming
AAAO: Paparazzo
AAAU:
AAEA: Anathema
AAEE: Amazement
AAEI: Analgesic
AAEO:
AAEU: Amateur
AAIA:
AAIE:
AAII:
AAIO: Armadillo
AAIU:
AAOA:
AAOE: Abalone
AAOI: Parabolic
AAOO:
AAOU:
AAUA:
AAUE: Maladjusted
AAUI:
AAUO:
AAUU: