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Fun with words and vowels....... how many can you get?

Here are 9 questions about words with unique properties. First to get all 9 (or whoever gets the most) receives the 10 points. Good luck! (All are English words)

1) There are 3 words which contain a, e, i, o and u (and only those 5 vowels) in order. Name one.

2) The only 6 letter word containing all 5 vowels? (Hint - A rarely used medical term referring to a state of normal mental health.)

3) The only common 7 letter word containing all 5 vowels?

4) A 5 letter word with 4 vowels?

5) The longest word with only 1 vowel (appearing once only)?

6) The longest word spelled using only the top row of letters on a standard keyboard (it is sometimes hyphenated)?

7) The longest common word which contains neither a, e, i, o or u?

8) Easy one. The word with 3 consecutive sets of doubled letters?

9) Very tough one. There are 3 15-letter words (all are reasonably well known and not obscure) that alternate between vowels and consonants. Name one.

Go!

Update:

Good work, Butterfly, but numbers 6 and 9 are incorrect. #6 needs a 12 letter word (not 11), and your answer for #9 doesn't alternate vowels and consonants (vcvcvcvcvcvcv).

Update 2:

Mickey D, your answer for #9 contains only 14 letters.

Update 3:

Butterfly needs #6, Mickey D needs #9.

Hurry!

Update 4:

Great work, Butterfly. Ten points to you.

#1 - facetious, abstemious or caesious

#9 - overimaginative, parasitological or verisimilitudes

Update 5:

Butterfly - I'm glad you added teetertotter. What does uropyoureter mean? I'm unfamiliar with that one.

Update 6:

Thanks, Butterfly - I think I'm sorry I asked. ( ; I'll give you the 10 points as soon as Y!A allows me. Great work! I'm glad you found the question interesting!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    1 abstemious

    2 eunoia

    3 sequoia

    4 queue

    5 strengths

    6 proterotype or rupturewort (11) edit uropyoureter (12) teetertotter (12)

    7 rhythms

    8 bookkeeper

    9 overimaginative

    uropyoureter - a collection of urine and pus in the ureter / infected ureter

    http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtri...

    Also listed in the medical dictionary below (but needs a subscription to see its meaning). The fact that it is listed means that it is real.

    http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub/view/Tabers/...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    1. facetious

    2. Eunoia

    3. Sequoia

    4. Aerie (or Adieu)

    5. Strengths

    6. Teeter-Totter or Powertripper

    7. Rhythms

    8. Bookkeeper

    9. Verisimiliudes

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Any 3-letter word with no vowels would have a "y" in it, which gives the "i" sound.

  • 1 decade ago

    ill try

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    1 facetious

    2 eunoia

    3 sequoia

    4 queue

    5 strengths

    6

    7 rhythms

    8 bookkeeper

    9

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