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A list of 2789 words by mollusque.

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Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "y" are listed under Panvocalic euryvocalic. Capitalized words are under Panvocalic Proper, Panvocalic people, Panvocalic places or Panvocalic organisms; and non-English words under Panvocalic Polyglot. See also Panvocalic phrases, Panvocalic miscellany, and hernesheir's panvocalic lists: Panvocalic Plants, Panvocalic Mineral Names, and Euvocalic Mineral Names.

All of the words on this list have been used at least once in print, by an author who was not seeking to create a vowel or letter pattern. For ones that haven't appeared in print, that I know of, see Supervocalic in Waiting.

Use these links to see words I've tagged with a particular sequence of vowels: aeiou, aeiuo, aeoiu, aeoui, aeuio, aeuoi, aieou, aieuo, aioeu, aioue, aiueo, aiuoe, aoeiu, aoeui, aoieu, aoiue, aouei, aouie, aueio, aueoi, auieo, auioe, auoei, auoie, eaiou, eaiuo, eaoiu, eaoui, eauio, eauoi, eiaou, eiauo, eioau, eioua, eiuao, eiuoa, eoaiu, eoaui, eoiau, eoiua, eouai, eouia, euaio, euaoi, euiao, euioa, euoai, euoia, iaeou, iaeuo, iaoeu, iaoue, iaueo, iauoe, ieaou, ieauo, ieoau, ieoua, ieuao, ieuoa, ioaeu, ioaue, ioeau, ioeua, iouae, iouea, iuaeo, iuaoe, iueao, iueoa, iuoae, iuoea, oaeiu, oaeui, oaieu, oaiue, oauei, oauie, oeaiu, oeaui, oeiau, oeiua, oeuai, oeuia, oiaeu, oiaue, oieau, oieua, oiuae, oiuea, ouaei, ouaie, oueai, oueia, ouiae, ouiea, uaeio, uaeoi, uaieo, uaioe, uaoei, uaoie, ueaio, ueaoi, ueiao, ueioa, ueoai, ueoia, uiaeo, uiaoe, uieao, uieoa, uioae, uioea, uoaei, uoaie, uoeai, uoeia, uoiae, uoiea.

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  • yarb I ran across nauseogenic here and immediately went looking for a version with one less 'e'. Jan 26, 2012

  • mollusque I do consider it a misspelling. How did you come across it. Jan 26, 2012

  • yarb nausogenic gets plenty of hits, though perhaps you'd consider it a misspelling of nauseogenic. Jan 26, 2012

  • yarb Just noticed uncellophaning on a citation I left two years ago. Mar 18, 2011

  • yarb bungaloidest! Jul 26, 2010

  • mollusque That could be a terrifying suffix, Pro. I'll have to explore it more. Feb 8, 2010

  • Prolagus How about the terrifying productizable? If you are more for the -eable suffix, there's always the euryvocalic productizeably. Feb 8, 2010

  • mollusque Thanks, Pro! Links fixed. Feb 5, 2010

  • Prolagus Just found genusation (as opposed to speciation) in The Compleat Cladist.
    By the way, your links to the other panvocalics lists don't work. Feb 5, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore Haha!
    No, I was going to suggest adding 'euvocalics' and 'supervocalics' but after browsing through 2000 or so words I found you already had them. Dec 24, 2009

  • mollusque Is that a non-vocalic, PossibleUnderscore? Dec 24, 2009

  • marky I'll let you choose, how's that?! I was merely referring to this massive list of pure awesomeness. ;)
    thx to PossibleUnderscore for digging it up from the archives for me to notice too. :D Dec 11, 2009

  • mollusque Thanks, PU and marky! Marky, do you mean Century Dictionary sense 1 or something rad on Urban Dictionary? Dec 11, 2009

  • marky mollusque, you're a pimp! Dec 11, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore This is an amazing list. I can't believe I haven't come across it before!
    *Favourited* Dec 11, 2009

  • jcw Sequoia. And a favorite in French: oiseau. Nov 19, 2009

  • mollusque With a citation! May 6, 2009

  • yarb Unaccompliced. May 5, 2009

  • mollusque Thanks, yarb! Apr 7, 2009

  • yarb Gustatories (citation - scroll up slightly). Apr 6, 2009

  • yarb Contubernial.

    Ah, I see you have contubernian. Apr 2, 2009

  • mollusque Hi, yarb. I include hyphenated words with Panvocalic phrases. I list noninstrumental and other "non-" words without the hyphen, assuming I've found an example in print. Mar 18, 2009

  • yarb Is there a place for the hyphenated non-instrumental (and presumably other "non-" conjunctions) on any of your lists? Mar 18, 2009

  • Prolagus Let's choose gifts for everywordie. Dec 29, 2008

  • mollusque Vaccigenous is the 2000th entry on this list! Nov 16, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, yarb! I'm reading comments from the top down, so amused to see Rabelais crop up here as well as with fatiloquency. I did a essay in college on verbogenesis in his work--I wonder if I can dig up a copy.

    Aceituno completed the euvocalic set; my last desideratum is something better than earthinductor for eaiuo. (Of course I'm still chasing the 720 euryvocalic possibilities.) Oct 30, 2008

  • yarb Celivagous is a nonce word in Urquhart's Rabelais. Oct 29, 2008

  • yarb No 'i' there, whichbe.

    n.b. mollusque - congratulations on your achievement. I for one wiped away a little tear when I saw aceituno. Oct 29, 2008

  • whichbe quaestor Oct 29, 2008

  • skipvia All Wordies are in awe of your accomplishment, mollusque. Congratulations. Oct 27, 2008

  • mollusque I completed the panvocalic circumnavigation today, with the discovery of aceituno (a kind of tree) to represent the sequence aeiuo. (As the comments from seven months ago show, wasteliquor never panned out.)

    Perfect timing to celebrate my one-year Wordiversary! My oldest comments clicked over to "about 1 year ago" sometime this weekend. Oct 27, 2008

  • rolig The same as "meowed", I expect. Oct 15, 2008

  • whichbe What does miaoued mean? Oct 15, 2008

  • Prolagus Transliterated, μαιε�?ω (maieuo). Oct 15, 2008

  • mollusque Miaoued. Oct 15, 2008

  • bilby I don't think so. When mollusque finds such a word he will die and go to heaven. But seeing as he's still here ... Oct 15, 2008

  • whichbe Are there any panvocalics that contain all the vowels in a row, within the word, uninterrupted by another letter? Oct 14, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, yarb!

    Do you have other favorite panvocalics? Oct 12, 2008

  • yarb Mountainness.

    n.b. I adore syrup of ipecac and Leighton Buzzard, too. Oct 12, 2008

  • mollusque Whichbe, I look forward to your report.

    Yarb, I agree, the most pleasing panvocalics aren't composed of standard prefixes and suffixes. They just come out of the blue. I don't have a single favourite, but here a few:
    tourmaline: well-known but beautiful;
    jacqueminot: like tourmaline, a color, which I also collect;
    milquetoast: a rare sequence of vowels not found in any other common word;
    miaoued: love that vowel cluster;
    resofincular: coined in 1976 for another purpose;
    proceduralist: my 10,000th word;
    syrup of ipecac: all six vowels in reverse;
    Leighton Buzzard: for sheer improbability. Oct 9, 2008

  • whichbe I wanted to bring this up later, but there's actually an esoteric, 'spiritual' dimention to euvocalics (though this particular neologism is unique to Wordie) that stems back to ancient Egypt, discussed in a book I've recently finished called The Mystery of the Seven Vowels. I'll report more on this topic here in the near future. Oct 9, 2008

  • yarb I never cared especially for panvocalics, but recently they've been in my thoughts more and more. As I read I'm aware of a part of my brain trailing along two paces behind my reading, scrutinising candidate words. I suppose it's just having them in the background on Wordie that's made them sink in like this.

    And I've realised that there are a few panvocalics which I consider "perfect", that is, those which don't make use of common vowel-heavy sequences like -ious or -ation. For example, loudhailer. Do you agree? What's your favourite panvocalic? Oct 8, 2008

  • mollusque Turns out OneLook does limit the number of responses, to 2000. The limit used to be 400. Also, OneLook's "common" words options shows words occurring in more than five dictionaries. May 23, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks for the reminder about OneLook, whichbe. I took another look, and some features have been added since I last wrestled with it. It no longer limits the number of responses, so I don't have to split the search to b*a*e*i*o*u*, c*a*e*i*o*u*, etc. Also, the "common words only" option eliminates phrases and foreign words, but seems to leave in all English words regardless of rarity. May 18, 2008

  • mollusque I've done some such searching in OneLook, particularly for the rarer patterns, but the inability to filter out words with spaces makes it inefficient. Instead I've imported wordlists into my own database and done searches there where I can use better search tools. May 18, 2008

  • whichbe I'd imagine that long ago you've gone to www.onelook.com and typed in wildcard variants like *a*e*i*o*u* eh? May 17, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, whichbe! And for helluation, which I found on Injesterly yesterday. May 17, 2008

  • whichbe silvopasture May 17, 2008

  • reesetee I wasn't counting myself out of the obsession thing, mollusque. :-) Mar 19, 2008

  • mollusque Look reesetee, there goes a black guillemot! Mar 19, 2008

  • reesetee And what delightful obsessions they are. Mar 19, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, c_b! Between your Aubrey/Maturin List and my panvocalics, I think we have obsession covered. Mar 18, 2008

  • chained_bear Mollusque, you're my hero. This list is sick alsome. Mar 18, 2008

  • mollusque Yarb, I tested hundreds of combinations ("baseliquor", "caseliquor"...) looking for the pattern in a published source (rather than online only). Unfortunately, I must now report that "wasteliquor" is a false alarm. I was checking to see what the oldest instance was and discovered almost everything I'd found in Google Books or Google Scholar was an OCR error, with the image of the original document showing "waste liquor". So, the search resumes.

    I might as well report what else I've discovered for aeiuo: "barley liquor", "cane liquor", "glaze liquor", and "paste liquor"; "caesium clock" and "magnesium bomb"; the generic names "Caespitugo", "Capensibufo", and "Laeviturbo"; and Latin "acerbitudo", "aegritudo", "paenitudo" and "taetritudo". Mar 18, 2008

  • yarb Wow! How did you find that ungainly but loveable word? Mar 18, 2008

  • mollusque Success! Wasteliquor has the elusive sequence "aeiuo". It's usually spelled "waste liquor", but there are enough examples in Google Books and Google Scholar to show that it's not just a typo as one word. Mar 18, 2008

  • mollusque An update from the panvocalic campaign. I've created an open list, Panvocalic polyglot, for non-English panvocalics. Contributions are welcome.

    The quest for an English representative of the sequence aeiuo had a false alarm today. In pairing various prefixes with -fluor and -tumor, I found "Alexifluor", used as the name of a chemical. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an occasional misspelling of the brand name "Alexa Fluor", so the search continues. Mar 16, 2008

  • mollusque Happy hunting, skipvia and reesetee! I'm hoping you have access to different electronic lexicons than I do (e.g., LexisNexis, or a database of chemical or drug names) and can run pattern searchs. Or someone will come up with a madeupical word that turns out to exist in the wild. Mar 11, 2008

  • reesetee What skipvia said. But I'm game too. :-) Mar 11, 2008

  • skipvia Jeez, mollusque. If you can't find them, what chance do we have?

    Still, I'm off to look... Mar 11, 2008

  • mollusque Okay gang, I need some help finding a few select panvocalics. Of the 120 orders for five vowels, I've found credible, lowercase English examples for 117 (as tagged in the list description). Three remain.

    aeiuo: aegritudo (Latin) and "cane-liquor" (hyphenated) are the closest I've come.

    eaiuo: earthinductor has appeared in print, but is usually two words; beatitudo is Latin.

    oieau: moineau is listed in oed2 and cdc1, but seems not really to be naturalized from French; Cointreau is capitalized. Mar 11, 2008

  • mollusque Thanks, sionnach! I scare myself sometimes. Stay tuned for capitalized panvocalics and a pending call for some panvocalic desiderata (certain sequences not yet represented by satisfyingly English words). Feb 4, 2008

  • sionnach I am in awe of what can only be described as a magnificent obsession. Though, truth be told, there's also something a little bit scary about the comprehensiveness of this list. Feb 4, 2008

  • sonofgroucho Nice list. I had never heard of panvocalics before. Nov 20, 2007

  • sionnach abstemiously and facetiously have always been my favorites, if only because the vowels appear in alphabetical order. Nov 8, 2007

  • yarb Vancouverism, eh? I didn't realise my city had an ethos! Nov 8, 2007

  • mollusque Thanks for Vancouverite, yarb. It is indeed a panvocalic, but having two e's, it doesn't quite fit the pattern of the list. But it led me to Vancouverism, which does. Nov 8, 2007

  • yarb Vancouverite - a native of Vancouver. Nov 7, 2007