# Gimme English words with 3 or more vowels running consecutively **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 1, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832 "2006-10-01T14:38:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/21 "2006-10-01T19:41:44Z")
[QUOTE=BarnOwl] Excellent so far. **Chez Guevara** , could you explain archaeoaeolotropic — mischievously or not. 😃😃😃 [/QUOTE] Never mind. I looked 'em both up. Pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/22 "2006-10-01T19:44:15Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] Make it four, and it’s a lot harder. Onomatopoeia Daniel [/QUOTE] I’m hoping for more fours. Thanks, **Left Hand of Dorkness**. (What can we call you for short?) ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/23 "2006-10-01T19:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=Snooooopy] Pooed. I pooed on the carpet. [/QUOTE] Did you give yourself a Dirty Sanchez afterwards? Photographic evidence is in demand here. Another threesome: Quoin More foursomes: Aqueous, Obsequious ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/24 "2006-10-01T19:46:51Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Did you give yourself a Dirty Sanchez afterwards? Photographic evidence is in demand here. [/QUOTE] I can’t help you because, you see, I just shampooed the carpet. I didn’t want to leave a stain. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/25 "2006-10-01T19:51:57Z")
Another three: q **uoi** t. Do you need these for any specific reason, **BarnOwl**? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/26 "2006-10-01T22:26:36Z")
Pangaea. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/27 "2006-10-01T23:10:02Z")
Junior Senior ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/28 "2006-10-01T23:12:32Z")
Hawaiian ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/29 "2006-10-01T23:18:59Z")
Ah, here’s the link for you. [American Language Review:](http://www.languagemagazine.com/internetedition/so2000/lastlaugh.html) > [@](#): > > Words like aqueous and sequoia contain four consecutive vowels. Queueing contains five in a row, and the word queue has the distinction of being the only English word that retains its original pronunciation even when the last four letters are dropped. One word strings together all five major vowels: miaoued. > Vowels in order. At least five English words contain the five major vowels in order: abstemious, abstentious, adventitious, facetious, and parecious. At least six contain the five vowels in reverse order: duoliteral, quodliteral, subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unorien- > tal, and unnoticeably. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/30 "2006-10-01T23:36:17Z")
euouae: 6 vowels, no consonants A contrived English word admittedly, but one that we use reasonably often within our church choir. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/31 "2006-10-01T23:47:26Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] euouae: 6 vowels, no consonants A contrived English word admittedly, but one that we use reasonably often within our church choir. [/QUOTE] Really? It’s not in my online dictionary. What does it mean? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/32 "2006-10-02T02:34:05Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Really? It’s not in my online dictionary. What does it mean? [/QUOTE] It’s a [Catholic liturgical music term.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae) It represents the sequence of notes in each of the different psalm tones that are sung on the syllables at the end of a psalm: saeculorum amen. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/33 "2006-10-02T02:47:00Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] It’s a [Catholic liturgical music term.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae) It represents the sequence of notes in each of the different psalm tones that are sung on the syllables at the end of a psalm: saeculorum amen. [/QUOTE] Ah. So a modern translation would be something like “Shoo be do be do be do da de”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/34 "2006-10-02T03:28:54Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] Sequoia [/QUOTE] Actually, “Sequoia” has the distinction of being the shortest word in the English language that uses all five vowels! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/35 "2006-10-02T03:53:46Z")
In common with the more arcane _aerious_, meaning airy, which also carries the distinction of having its vowels in alphabetical order. ---
**Author:** ![aclubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@aclubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aclubs)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/36 "2006-10-02T03:54:51Z")
Curses! Foiled again! (Nice find, **Chez**.) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/37 "2006-10-02T12:03:16Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Junior Senior [/QUOTE] I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/38 "2006-10-02T15:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] Another three: q **uoi** t. Do you need these for any specific reason, **BarnOwl**? [/QUOTE] The fact is, my old college buddy kind of collects the words, not avidly, just notes such words as he sees them. So I asked him if it’d be ok if I threw the idea out to some very smart people that I “know” and he said fine. He and his wife live up in NH, and it happens they went on a trip to Delaware, and just this morning stopped by here on their way back home. During the visit, I showed him this thread. He was very impressed (as I knew he would be), and got a laugh out of Little Nemo’s **eieio** , just as I did. You all won over a new member. Thanks very much. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/39 "2006-10-02T17:13:50Z")
Any good sentances made up of only such words? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832/40 "2006-10-02T17:23:43Z")
[QUOTE=Bippy the Beardless] Any good sentances made up of only such words? [/QUOTE] Since there are no articles, conjunctions, or prepositions that meet the criteria, it would be rather tricky to get too complicated. “Obsequious Hawaiian quietly squealed…” Meh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gimme-english-words-with-3-or-more-vowels-running-consecutively/374832.md?page=3)