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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude #203247 11/14/11 07:05 PM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 2 G Gumnos OP stranger OP Gumnos stranger G Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 2 Depending on how common, "/usr/share/dict/american-english", suggests honorificabilitudinitatibus unimaginatively But my "/usr/share/dict/american-english-huge" gives aluminosilicate aluminosilicates cytomegalovirus cytomegaloviruses generalizability hexosaminidases honorificabilitudinitatibus honorificabilitudinity hypocotyledonary ineradicability overimaginative paramyxoviruses pararosanilines parasitological polyvinylidenes supererogatorily tenosynovitises unimaginatively verisimilitudes And if you want to get crazy, the "american-english-insane" yields acetonylacetone acetylacetonates acetylasalicylic adenolipomatosis aluminosilicate aluminosilicates anatomicomedical categorematical cycadofilicales cytomegalovirus cytomegaloviruses epicoracohumeral epicotyledonary gelatinizability generalizability hamamelidoxylon hemadynamometer hematocytogenesis hematocytometer hematodynamometer hemocytogenesis hepaticological hepatomelanosis hepatoperitonitis heterometabolic hexosaminidases honorificabilitudinitatibus honorificabilitudinity hydatopyrogenic hyperanakinesis hyperoxygenized hypocotyledonary hypovitaminosis ineradicability katakinetomeric laparohepatotomy manipulatability medicobotanical metabolizability monocotyledones nonapologetical overeducatively overelaborately overimaginative overimaginatively overimitatively papulovesicular paramyxoviruses pararosanilines parasitological pericanalicular perihepatitises polycotyledonary polyvinylidenes reticulatoramose reticulatovenose reticulocytosis retinopapilitis semicaricatural semifiguratively semimineralized semipopularized semipyramidical siderosilicosis superacidulated superelaborately supereligibility supererogatorily superoratorical superoxygenated tenosynovitises tenovaginitises tocodynamometer tokodynamometer unimaginability unimaginatively unimolecularity unoriginatively verisimilitudes vesiculotubular Hurray for regular expressions Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Gumnos #203249 11/14/11 11:08 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Gumnos, as Anu asked the question with today's word, you should send him your answer[s], as he may not see it here in this user based forum. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Gumnos #203257 11/15/11 10:52 AM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Wow Gumnos! some great words there.....how long were you working on those? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude Gumnos #203387 11/21/11 12:59 AM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 2 G Gumnos OP stranger OP Gumnos stranger G Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 2 Sorry, just getting back to this (apparently the "email me with follow-ups" checkbox didn't send me any of your replies). It was a simple regular-expression run against a local dictionary on my computer: grep '^[aeiouy]\?\([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz][aeiouy]\)*[bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]\?$' /usr/share/dict/words | grep ............... which roughly translates to "allowing one optional vowel at the beginning of the word, find any number of consonant-followed-by-vowel pairs, optionally followed by one consonant at the end; search the local dictionary file for anything that matches the pattern; take the results and filter them for matches containing at least 15 characters in them". There's something to be said for geekery. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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