Gimme English words with 3 or more vowels running consecutively

[BarnOwl]

@BarnOwl

Excellent so far.

Chez Guevara,

could you explain archaeoaeolotropic — mischievously or not.

Never mind. I looked 'em both up. Pretty good.

[BarnOwl]

@Left Hand of Dorkness

Make it four, and it’s a lot harder.

Onomatopoeia

Daniel

I’m hoping for more fours. Thanks, Left Hand of Dorkness. (What can we call you for short?)

[Mindfield]

@Snooooopy

Pooed.

I pooed on the carpet.

Did you give yourself a Dirty Sanchez afterwards? Photographic evidence is in demand here.

Another threesome: Quoin
More foursomes: Aqueous, Obsequious

[Snooooopy]

@Mindfield

Did you give yourself a Dirty Sanchez afterwards? Photographic evidence is in demand here.

I can’t help you because, you see, I just shampooed the carpet. I didn’t want to leave a stain.

[Surok]

Another three:

quoit.

Do you need these for any specific reason, BarnOwl?

[Miller]

Pangaea.

[Boyo_Jim]

Junior
Senior

[Boyo_Jim]

Hawaiian

[Boyo_Jim]

Ah, here’s the link for you. American Language Review:

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.

[Cunctator]

euouae: 6 vowels, no consonants

A contrived English word admittedly, but one that we use reasonably often within our church choir.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Cunctator

euouae: 6 vowels, no consonants

A contrived English word admittedly, but one that we use reasonably often within our church choir.

Really? It’s not in my online dictionary. What does it mean?

[Cunctator]

@Boyo Jim

Really? It’s not in my online dictionary. What does it mean?

It’s a Catholic liturgical music term. 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.

[Boyo_Jim]

@Cunctator

It’s a Catholic liturgical music term. 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.

Ah. So a modern translation would be something like “Shoo be do be do be do da de”.

[aclubs]

@ShibbOleth

Sequoia

Actually, “Sequoia” has the distinction of being the shortest word in the English language that uses all five vowels!

[Chez_Guevara]

In common with the more arcane aerious, meaning airy, which also carries the distinction of having its vowels in alphabetical order.

[aclubs]

Curses! Foiled again!

(Nice find, Chez.)

[RickJay]

@Boyo Jim

Junior
Senior

I don’t get it.

[BarnOwl]

@Surok

Another three:

quoit.

Do you need these for any specific reason, BarnOwl?

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.

[Bippy_the_Beardless]

Any good sentances made up of only such words?

[twickster]

@Bippy the Beardless

Any good sentances made up of only such words?

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.