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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?)
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tsu"noblesse oblige"wm presents us with: yo-yo (all 4?)
Sure, if you umlaut the ÿs.[hi F!]
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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
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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? 
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Do we accept proper nouns ("Louie")?
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I don't have any really long ones but I offer this in lieu.
-Jim
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We're not within cooee of the end yet, but they're queuing up.
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Miaotse for our friend in China Hi Youtian/
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Anyone know words with double vowels besides o and e (besides vacuum and aardvark)?
Are there any triple vowels in English?
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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).
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