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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

Hi Bobby,

Yes, there are lots more. Here's a list of ones not already posted. I don't know any of them as they are multisyllabic, but they're probably well-known to the average Scrabble player.

To stick with Jane's format I'll keep this post for words starting with 'A' and I'll include new additions as I find them.

All except three of them are in the Collins English Dictionary.

AEIOU
parecious

AEOIU
adenovirus
aerobium
archesporium
aspersorium
cafetorium
praetorium

AEUOI
aequorin
aleuronic

AIEOU
armigerous
bacciferous
calciferous
clavigerous
crystalliferous (not in Collins, but is in some other dictionaries)
crystalligerous (not in Collins, but is in some other dictionaries)
flammiferous
glaireous
glandiferous
jaspideous
lactiferous
laniferous
lanigerous
lapideous
mammiferous
manniferous
saliferous
spadiceous
stanniferous
stramineous
varicellous

AIOEU
carillonneur
raisonneur

AIOUE
anticonsumer
captiousness
fashiousness
grandiloquent
magniloquent
packinghouse
radiolucent

AIUEO
antinucleon

AIUOE
radiculose

AOEIU
acroterium
apodyterium
gastrocnemius

AOEUI
raconteuring

AOIUE
arboviruses
parvoviruses
rhabdoviruses
sartoriuses

AOUEI
accoutering
macronuclei

AOUIE
absolutive
advoutries
agrobusiness
andouille
avoutries
backcountries
patchoulies
rambouillet
vapourishness

AUEIO
carburetion

AUIOE
aluminothermy
auriscope
lanuginose

AUOEI
autoecism
autosexing
autotelic
autotheism

AUOIE
autocide (not in Collins, but is in some other dictionaries)
autocrime
autopsies
autotypies
dacquoise
sautoire
tautonymies

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

Hi;

UIAOE

hurricanoes
subimagoes
sulfinpyrazone
sulfinpyrazones
sulphinpyrazone
uniramose

UIEAO

multimegaton
quindecagons

UIOAE

curvicostate
functionate
functionated
functionates
juniorate
juniorates
multicoated
multicostate
multilobate
unicostate
unignorable
unimportance
unimportances
unisonance
unisonances
unviolated

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

I don't know if it's acceptable, but...

EUAIO

hexfurcation

EIUAO

defigurator

OIUAE

configurate

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

concubinage

pelargonium

preannouncing

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

UOAIE
buoyancies
customaries
fluvoxamine
plutocracies
unconstrained
uncontradicted
unobtained
unordained
unorganized
unpolarized

Thanks to last night’s “University Challenge”, I have found a new word for UOAIE: unsportsmanlike.

glucosamine

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio … lucosamine

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

Anyone has a good regex for this?

chattopadhyay@chattopadhyayPC:~$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep "a" | grep "e" | grep "i" | grep "o" | grep "u" 
Australopithecus
Australopithecus's
Austronesian
Austronesian's
Barquisimeto
Beaujolais
Beaujolais's
Beauvoir
Byelorussia
Byelorussia's
Carboniferous
Carboniferous's
Cointreau
Figueroa
Figueroa's
Hermaphroditus
Milquetoast
Milquetoast's
Mozambique
Mozambique's
Teotihuacan
Teotihuacan's
abstemious
accentuation
accentuation's
adulteration
adulteration's
adventitious
aeronautical
aeronautics
aeronautics's
ambidextrous
ambidextrously
ambitiousness
ambitiousness's
ambulatories
argumentation
argumentation's
assiduousness
assiduousness's
atrociousness
atrociousness's
attenuation
attenuation's
auctioned
auctioneer
auctioneer's
auctioneers
audaciousness
audaciousness's
audiophile
audiophile's
audiophiles
auditioned
augmentation
augmentation's
augmentations
auspiciousness
auspiciousness's
authentication
authentication's
authentications
authoritative
authoritatively
authoritativeness
authoritativeness's
authorities
authorize
authorized
authorizes
autobiographies
autocracies
autoimmune
automobile
automobile's
automobiled
automobiles
automotive
autopsied
autopsies
beautification
beautification's
bivouacked
boardinghouse
boardinghouse's
boardinghouses
bouillabaisse
bouillabaisse's
bouillabaisses
boundaries
businesswoman
businesswoman's
capaciousness
capaciousness's
capriciousness
capriciousness's
cauliflower
cauliflower's
cauliflowers
cautioned
cautiousness
cautiousness's
clearinghouse
clearinghouse's
clearinghouses
coeducation
coeducation's
coeducational
communicable
communicate
communicated
communicates
communicative
commutative
computerization
computerization's
conceptualization
conceptualization's
conceptualizations
conceptualize
conceptualized
conceptualizes
conceptualizing
configurable
conquistadores
consequential
constabularies
consultancies
consultative
continuance
continuance's
continuances
countenancing
counteracting
counteraction
counteraction's
counteractions
counterattacking
counterbalancing
counterclaim
counterclaim's
counterclaimed
counterclaiming
counterclaims
counterespionage
counterespionage's
countermanding
counterrevolutionaries
counterrevolutionary
counterrevolutionary's
crematorium
crematorium's
crematoriums
daguerreotyping
dehumanization
dehumanization's
denunciation
denunciation's
denunciations
depopulating
depopulation
depopulation's
deputation
deputation's
deputations
deregulation
deregulation's
devaluation
devaluation's
devaluations
dialogue
dialogue's
dialogues
disadvantageous
disadvantageously
discombobulate
discombobulated
discombobulates
discontinuance
discontinuance's
discontinuances
discountenance
discountenanced
discountenances
discountenancing
discourage
discouraged
discouragement
discouragement's
discouragements
discourages
documentaries
documentation
documentation's
education
education's
educational
educationally
educations
efficacious
efficaciously
ejaculation
ejaculation's
ejaculations
elucidation
elucidation's
elucidations
emasculation
emasculation's
emulation
emulation's
emulations
emulsification
emulsification's
encapsulation
encapsulation's
encapsulations
encouraging
encouragingly
encrustation
encrustation's
encrustations
enumeration
enumeration's
enumerations
enunciation
enunciation's
equalization
equalization's
equation
equation's
equations
equatorial
equinoctial
equivocal
equivocally
equivocate
equivocated
equivocates
equivocating
equivocation
equivocation's
equivocations
euphoria
euphoria's
evacuation
evacuation's
evacuations
evaluation
evaluation's
evaluations
evolutionary
excommunicate
excommunicated
excommunicates
excommunicating
excommunication
excommunication's
excommunications
exhaustion
exhaustion's
exhumation
exhumation's
exhumations
expostulating
expostulation
expostulation's
expostulations
expurgation
expurgation's
expurgations
extenuation
extenuation's
exultation
exultation's
facetious
facetiously
facetiousness
facetiousness's
farinaceous
fastidiousness
fastidiousness's
filamentous
fluoridate
fluoridated
fluoridates
fountainhead
fountainhead's
fountainheads
functionaries
gelatinous
gesticulation
gesticulation's
gesticulations
gladioluses
glamourize
glamourized
glamourizes
graciousness
graciousness's
grandiloquence
grandiloquence's
grandiloquent
gregarious
gregariously
gregariousness
gregariousness's
groundbreaking
groundbreaking's
groundbreakings
gubernatorial
hallucinogen
hallucinogen's
hallucinogenic
hallucinogenic's
hallucinogenics
hallucinogens
harmoniousness
harmoniousness's
heterosexuality
heterosexuality's
hippopotamuses
homosexuality
homosexuality's
housebreaking
housebreaking's
housecleaning
housecleaning's
housemaid
housemaid's
housemaids
housewarming
housewarming's
housewarmings
ignoramuses
importunate
incommensurate
inconsequential
inconsequentially
inoculate
inoculated
inoculates
insouciance
insouciance's
instantaneous
instantaneously
institutionalize
institutionalized
institutionalizes
instrumentation
instrumentation's
insubordinate
insupportable
insurmountable
intravenous
intravenous's
intravenouses
intravenously
jalousie
jalousie's
jalousies
jealousies
lasciviousness
lasciviousness's
liquefaction
liquefaction's
malfunctioned
malnourished
mendacious
menstruation
menstruation's
milquetoast
milquetoast's
milquetoasts
miscellaneous
mortuaries
mountaineer
mountaineer's
mountaineered
mountaineering
mountaineering's
mountaineers
mountainside
mountainside's
mountainsides
mousetrapping
mouthwatering
multidimensional
multifariousness
multifariousness's
multimillionaire
multimillionaire's
multimillionaires
nefarious
nefariously
nefariousness
nefariousness's
neurological
neurotically
neurotransmitter
neurotransmitter's
neurotransmitters
neutralization
neutralization's
numeration
numeration's
numerations
obituaries
oleaginous
ostentatious
ostentatiously
outdistance
outdistanced
outdistances
outmaneuvering
outmanoeuvring
outpatient
outpatient's
outpatients
outreaching
outspreading
outwearing
overambitious
overanxious
overcautious
overenthusiastic
overhauling
overpopulating
overpopulation
overpopulation's
overqualified
pandemonium
pandemonium's
pasteurization
pasteurization's
permutation
permutation's
permutations
perpetuation
perpetuation's
perspicacious
persuasion
persuasion's
persuasions
pertinacious
perturbation
perturbation's
perturbations
plutocracies
pneumonia
pneumonia's
popularize
popularized
popularizes
portraiture
portraiture's
precarious
precariously
precaution
precaution's
precautionary
precautions
preoccupation
preoccupation's
preoccupations
pressurization
pressurization's
pulverization
pulverization's
purgatories
putrefaction
putrefaction's
questionable
questionably
questionnaire
questionnaire's
questionnaires
rambunctiousness
rambunctiousness's
rapaciousness
rapaciousness's
recapitulation
recapitulation's
recapitulations
reconfiguration
recuperation
recuperation's
reeducation
reeducation's
reformulating
refutation
refutation's
refutations
regulation
regulation's
regulations
regurgitation
regurgitation's
rejuvenation
rejuvenation's
remuneration
remuneration's
remunerations
renunciation
renunciation's
renunciations
repudiation
repudiation's
repudiations
reputation
reputation's
reputations
resuscitation
resuscitation's
resuscitator
resuscitator's
resuscitators
reunification
reunification's
revaluation
revaluation's
revaluations
revolutionaries
revolutionary
revolutionary's
sacrilegious
salaciousness
salaciousness's
secularization
secularization's
semiautomatic
semiautomatic's
semiautomatics
sequestration
sequestration's
sequestrations
sequoia
sequoia's
sequoias
simultaneous
simultaneously
somersaulting
spaciousness
spaciousness's
speculation
speculation's
speculations
stupefaction
stupefaction's
subordinate
subordinate's
subordinated
subordinates
subpoenaing
tambourine
tambourine's
tambourines
tautologies
telecommunication
telecommunication's
telecommunications
telecommunications's
tenacious
tenaciously
tourmaline
tourmaline's
ulceration
ulceration's
ultraconservative
ultraconservative's
ultraconservatives
ultraviolet
ultraviolet's
unaccompanied
unauthorized
unavoidable
uncommunicative
uncomplicated
uncomplimentary
unconscionable
uncontaminated
uncontroversial
unconventional
unconventionally
uncooperative
uncoordinated
undemocratic
undemonstrative
undercoating
uneconomical
unemotional
unequivocal
unequivocally
unexceptionable
unexceptional
unfashionable
unforgivable
unidirectional
uninformative
unintentional
unintentionally
unmentionable
unmentionable's
unmentionables
unnoticeable
unobjectionable
unobtainable
unorganized
unprofessional
unprofitable
unquestionable
unquestionably
unreasoning
unrecognizable
unsanctioned
unsociable
unsophisticated
unsportsmanlike
veracious
vexatious
vituperation
vituperation's
vivaciousness
vivaciousness's
vocabularies
voluntaries
voluptuaries
warehousing

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

OK;

I wrote a couple.

In order to find words that contain 'aeiou' just once do this

cat /usr/share/dict/words | perl -wnE 'print if (1==($x=()=/a/g)) and (1==($x=()=/e/g)) and (1==($x=()=/i/g)) and (1==($x=()=/o/g)) and (1==($x=()=/u/g))'

In order to find words that contain 'aeiou' once in that order, do this:

cat /usr/share/dict/words | perl -wnE 'print if /^[^aeiou]*a[^aeiou]*e[^aeiou]*i[^aeiou]*o[^aeiou]*u[^aeiou]*$/g'

To change the order to say 'aeoui', do this:

cat /usr/share/dict/words | perl -wnE 'print if /^[^aeiou]*a[^aeiou]*e[^aeiou]*o[^aeiou]*u[^aeiou]*i[^aeiou]*$/g'

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

To get a list of all words without any vowels, do this:

 egrep -i "^[^aeiou']*$" /usr/share/dict/words

Byrd
Flynn
Fry
Gwyn
Gypsy
LyX
Lyly
Lynch
Lynn
Myst
Pkwy
Pygmy
Pym
Styx
Ty
Wynn
Y
Yb
by
cry
crypt
crypts
cyst
cysts
dry
dryly
drys
fly
flyby
flybys
fry
glyph
gym
gyms
gyp
gyps
gypsy
hymn
hymns
lymph
lynch
lynx
my
myrrh
mys
myth
myths
nymph
nymphs
ply
pry
psych
psychs
pygmy
pyx
rhythm
rhythms
shy
shyly
sky
sly
slyly
spry
spryly
spy
sty
sylph
sylphs
sync
synch
synchs
syncs
thy
try
tryst
trysts
why
whys
wry
wryly

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

that's amazing! I never knew that there was aeiou words!

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

But you can run that perl code

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

EUAIO
crenulation
degustation
denudation
deputation
despumation
detruncation
education
emulation
encrustation
equation
eructation
exculpation
exhumation
expurgation
exudation
exultation
menstruation
mensuration
mercuration
peculation
permutation
persuasion
perturbation
refutation
regulation
reputation
speculation
sternutation

fecundation
neuration

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio … /fecundate

http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio … elargonium

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http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio … /neuration

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

OUEAI
counteracting
counterchanging
countercharging
counterclaim
countermanding
countermarching
countershading
counterstain
countervail
documentarily
housemaid
mountebanking
outeating
outleaping
outreaching
outspeaking
outspreading
outwearing

countenancing

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

EAIOU
behaviour
edacious
gelatinous
gregarious
mendacious
nefarious
precarious
predacious
tenacious
veracious
vexatious

hellacious

UAIOE
glutathione
quadripole
ultraviolet

unfashioned

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

Hi Olinguito,

countenacing

That should be 'countenancing'.

OUEAI:
connumerating
counterbracing
countercharming
counterclaims
counterdrawing
counterraid
counterraids
counterrallying
countershadings
counterstains
counterstating
countertactic
countertactics
countertrading
countervails
documentalist
documentalists
documentarist
documentarists
groundbreaking
groundbreakings
housemaids
housewarming
housewarmings
monumentality
mountebankings
mountebankism
mountebankisms
mousetail
mousetails
mousetrapping
noumenalism
noumenalisms
noumenalist
noumenalists
noumenality
outbeaming
outbleating
outbreaking
outbreathing
outcheating
outdebating
outdreaming
outearning
outfeasting
outgleaming
outhearing
outleading
outlearning
outpreaching
outreading
outscreaming
outswearing
outwearying
pronuclearist
pronuclearists
protuberating
routemarching
souterrain
souterrains
troublemaking
troublemakings

Italicized words are those in Agnishom's large general listing in post #31, but I've included them here under the OUEAI heading.

The others haven't appeared in the thread so far...and all words are in the Collins English Dictionary.

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UAOIE
guanosine
unaccomplished

unavoided

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

UIOAE

unimposable

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UOIAE
fluoridate
fluorinate
subordinate
uncomplicated
unprofitable
unsociable

unmotivated

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OUAIE
boundaries
commutative
conjugative
consultative
contumacies
copulative
formularize
fountained
gourmandise
grossularite
journalize
modulative
mortuaries
ossuaries
outlandishness
outlawries
outpatient
popularize
tourmaline
voluntaries

outraise

IOUEA

thiourea

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UEAIO
cupellation
numeration
putrefaction
rubefaction
ulceration

nucleation

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UAIOE
glutathione
quadripole
ultraviolet

unfashioned

mustachioed

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

UOAIE
buoyancies
customaries
fluvoxamine
plutocracies
unconstrained
uncontradicted
unobtained
unordained
unorganized
unpolarized

Thanks to last night’s “University Challenge”, I have found a new word for UOAIE: unsportsmanlike.

glucosamine

sulphonamide

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Nehushtan

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

EUOIA

There is a goddess in Greek mythology called Eunomia, as well as an asteroid named after her.

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turtleeey

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Re: Words that contain AEIOU, in any order, each vowel exactly once

Thanks for the Scrabble cheat sheet.