What words have 3 vowels in a row?

What words have 3 vowels in a row?
Thanks!

A new favorite, courtesy of tswum:

aeolist

I actually considered changing my handle to this, but didn't want to start again as a stranger.

beautiful question-- i am sure we'll find lots of answers!

are you serious? (how many words do you suppose there are in the -ious family? :-)

here's one with a double string of 3: eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious

queer -- I never thought about how common it is -- (should have know it was an easy task-- I thought of two right away!)

shall we play with it for a while-- and then go on to 4 vowels in a row? ---like the beheaded words--are there any 4 vowels in row? (i think so...) or Double u's-- and see what we can come up with? -- or maybe bonus points for words that have double sets of 3 vowes in a row-- only the points don't mean anything-- they are just there for fun!

I'm going to presume its english-- but just what are you doing to/with/like an eel?

A personal favorite: archaeology

it's a word of some dubiousness which has nothing whatsoever to do with eels, but rather means "good, perhaps very good".

Thank You! If there are any with four or five vowels please let me know and please keep them coming. I have these so far:
aeolian
sequoia
nefarious
onomatopoeia
canoeing
Hawaii
alleluia
allioceous
ambitious
aeolist
beautiful
queer
archaeology
dubiousness

THANKS!

Is eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious a real word?

meiosis
pious
siliceous
salacious

as no one has risen to the challenge yet (and I do have a reputation to maintain ;), here are some useless words which have *more than* three...

epigaeous - growing on, or close to, the ground
maieutic - relating to or resembling the Socratic method of eliciting new ideas from another
eugeuia - allspice and clove producing plants
plateauing

oh, and I just noticed that you have onomatopoeia on your list, and in that vein:
mythopoeia pharmacopoeia prosopopoeia

and now, just to start a fight, I present you with
blueeyed (5?)
yo-yo (all 4?)

tsu"noblesse oblige"wm presents us with: yo-yo (all 4?)

Sure, if you umlaut the �s.[hi F!]

Blueeyed?!!!! Well, you probably could get away with it in the course of everyday writing, but if you wrote "blueeyed" for MY consumption, I'd whip out the old red pen and dutifully stick a hyphen between "blue" and "eyed," turning your "blueeyed," which is visually torturous, into the ocularly pleasing "blue-eyed." Of course, I've always been told I'm too Argus-eyed for my own good, so you would have to take my editorial criticism with a proverbial grain of salt.

John

Of course, I've always been told I'm too Argus-eyed for my own good, so you would have to take my editorial criticism with a proverbial grain of salt.

Oh yeah? And what do your cow-orkers think?

Do we accept proper nouns ("Louie")?

I don't have any really long ones but I offer this in lieu.

-Jim

We're not within cooee of the end yet, but they're queuing up.

Miaotse for our friend in China Hi Youtian/

Anyone know words with double vowels besides o and e (besides vacuum and aardvark)?
Are there any triple vowels in English?

there are lots of aa's and ii's, but they're mostly uninteresting. (e.g., -iism and -iite forms) I think the only triples you'll find are hyphenated (like see-er and no-see-em).

see-er and no-see-em

I would spell them "seer" and "no-see-um". I've never seen the triple-e spellings for either one.

...are variants which turn up in really big dictionaries.

Of course, tsuwm, I didn't doubt the authenticity of your spellings. I just thought they looked awfully weird.

No kidding? I didn't know there were any ii words!

aa: a kind of lava; Hawaiian
laager, kraal, aasvogel: Afrikaans
radii, etc.
torii: a Japanese temple gate (?)
continuum, duumvirate

We can ignore the somewhat artificial classical words like euoi and Aiaiai. They hardly count as English.

In English see + er becomes seer, but in Dutch the comparable compounds do keep three eee's.

There's a town in Tahiti called Faaa.

In Finnish, y is a vowel pure and simple: and by combining haa 'wedding', y� 'night', and aie 'intention' you can make haay�aie. (I'm doing that from memory, and the first word might be wrong, but if so it's something equally applicable like h��.)

Shifting to consonants, in German Ballett + tanzer formerly gave Ballettanzer; the new system I believe renders this more logically as Balletttanzer. In English we're deprived of this sight by the hyphens in gill-less and Inverness-shire.

So English doesn't have any unhyphenated, triple-vowel words?

By the way - I just found a quadruple-o word (albeit hyphenated) at the end of the "Altar Poems" thread.