Gimme English words with 3 or more vowels running consecutively

I remember seeing a puzzle in which the challenge was to make words containing as many three-or-more-vowel runs as possible. Here are the threesomes this thread has produced so far (only one word of each common string included):

aaa
aae
aai
aao
aau

aea – panacaea
aee
aei
aeo – archaeology
aeu

aia
aie
aii – Hawaiian
aio
aiu

aoa
aoe
aoi
aoo
aou – miaouing

aua
aue
aui
auo
auu

eaa
eae
eai
eao
eau – beautiful

eea
eee
eei – seeing (my addition)
eeo
eeu

eia – onomatopoeia
eie
eii
eio
eiu

eoa – archaeoaeolotropic
eoe
eoi
eoo
eou – beauteous

eua
eue – queue
eui
euo – euouae
euu

iaa
iae
iai
iao – miaouing
iau

iea
iee
iei
ieo
ieu

iia – Hawaiian
iie
iii
iio
iiu

ioa
ioe – mustachioed
ioi
ioo
iou – curious

iua
iue
iui
iuo
iuu

oaa
oae – archaeoaeolotropic
oai
oao
oau

oea
oee
oei – onomatopoeia
oeo
oeu – manoeuvre

oia – sequoia
oie
oii
oio
oiu

ooa
ooe – shampooed
ooi
ooo
oou

oua – euouae
oue – moue
oui – miaouing
ouo
ouu

uaa
uae – euouae
uai
uao
uau

uea – squeal
uee
uei – queueing
ueo – aqueous
ueu – queue

uia
uie – quiet
uii
uio – obsequious
uiu

uoa
uoe
uoi – sequoia
uoo
uou – superfluous

uua
uue
uui
uuo
uuu

You’re a taskmaster, Sternvogel!! :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

eoi -> geoids

aaa -> Khaaan

Doesn’t really count, but it might be worth a laugh.

Let’s see if we can knock some off of Sternvogel’s list of possibilities. Here’s one:

gaiety

Here’s another:

lieu

AFAIK, there are no English words with aaa, eee, iii, ooo, or uuu.

ISTR that there are some French words with eee.

[QUOTE=commasense]
ISTR that there are some French words with eee.
[/QUOTE]
Indeed. The feminine form of the past participle of the verb créer (to create) is an example:

Comment est-ce que la lune a été créée?
How was the moon created?

More from Sternvogel’s list:

luau
squeegee
quail
quaalude

Whose pooing in this thread.?
Are they wooable

Portmanteau turned up in today’s NYT crossword.

A portmanteau word, I learned today is a combination of two words to make a another word with a different meaning:

camcorder
smog
tangello
motel
liger
etc.

I knew about words like this, of course, but didn’t know what they were called.
And when I want to show off, I can use a lot of big words, like linoleum.

I think I heard a sheep baaing.

Whose sheep baaed?

Cite

booing

buoyed

[QUOTE=spoke-]
buoyed
[/QUOTE]

I’m not sure whether that “y” is a vowel or consonant.

An updating of the list, with my current contributions bolded:

aaa
aae – baaed
aai – baaing
aao
aau

aea – panacaea
aee
aei
aeo – archaeology
aeu

aia
aie – gaiety
aii – Hawaiian
aio
aiu

aoa
aoe
aoi – Taoism
aoo
aou – miaouing

aua – Kauai
aue
aui – Maui (that Aloha State really helps)
auo
auu

eaa
eae
eai
eao
eau – beautiful

eea
eee – créée (French word meaning created)
eei – seeing (my addition)
eeo
eeu

eia – onomatopoeia
eie
eii
eio
eiu

eoa – archaeoaeolotropic
eoe
eoi – geoids
eoo
eou – beauteous

eua
eue – queue
eui
euo – euouae
euu

iaa
iae
iai
iao – miaouing
iau

iea
iee
iei
ieo
ieu – lieu

iia – Hawaiian
iie
iii
iio
iiu

ioa – Ohioan
ioe – mustachioed
ioi
ioo
iou – curious

iua
iue – Niue (Pacific island)
iui
iuo
iuu

oaa
oae – archaeoaeolotropic
oai
oao
oau

oea
oee
oei – onomatopoeia
oeo
oeu – manoeuvre

oia – sequoia
oie
oii
oio
oiu

ooa – wooable
ooe – shampooed
ooi – booing
ooo
oou

oua – euouae
oue – moue
oui – miaouing
ouo
ouu

uaa – Quaalude
uae – euouae
uai – quail
uao
uau – luau

uea – squeal
uee – squeegee
uei – queueing
ueo – aqueous
ueu – queue

uia
uie – quiet
uii
uio – obsequious
uiu

uoa
uoe
uoi – sequoia
uoo
uou – superfluous

uua
uue
uui
uuo
uuu

Just to be difficult – many times there’s a “no-proper-nouns” rule in wordplay and letter manipulation.

If we don’t cheat for some there are no real answers.

Uuencode is probably the only way to get uue in a word or
we double-u e

aioli is fully legit though.

moai

(Those Easter Island giant stone heads.)

Huia, the extinct New Zealand bird.