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#203247 - 11/14/11 02:05 PM Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude
Gumnos stranger Registered: 11/14/11 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
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#203249 - 11/14/11 06:08 PM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude [Re: Gumnos]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: 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.
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#203257 - 11/15/11 05:52 AM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude [Re: Gumnos]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Wow Gumnos! some great words there.....how long were you working on those?
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#203387 - 11/20/11 07:59 PM Re: Alternating vowel/cons. longer than verisimilitude [Re: Gumnos]
Gumnos stranger Registered: 11/14/11 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.
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