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An open list of 55 words by Silenturion.

dividivi 890928 3 was added by Silenturion and appears on 2 other lists
cimicic 890929 2 was added by Silenturion and appears on 1 other list
civic 890930 20 was added by Silenturion and appears on 19 other lists
civil 890931 24 was added by Silenturion and appears on 23 other lists
idic 890932 1 was added by Silenturion and appears on just this list
dill 890933 20 was added by Silenturion and appears on 19 other lists
livid 890936 103 was added by Silenturion and appears on 102 other lists
mild 890937 23 was added by Silenturion and appears on 22 other lists
ilicic 890938 2 was added by Silenturion and appears on 1 other list
vivid 890939 65 was added by Silenturion and appears on 64 other lists
clim 890940 2 was added by Silenturion and appears on 1 other list
imidic 890941 4 was added by Silenturion and appears on 3 other lists
mimic 890959 27 was added by yarb and appears on 26 other lists
mix 890960 24 was added by yarb and appears on 23 other lists
did 890989 11 was added by Dan337 and appears on 10 other lists
id 890990 33 was added by Dan337 and appears on 32 other lists
ill 890991 28 was added by Dan337 and appears on 27 other lists
I 890992 18 was added by Dan337 and appears on 17 other lists
lid 890993 14 was added by Dan337 and appears on 13 other lists
mi 890994 13 was added by Dan337 and appears on 12 other lists
mid 890995 7 was added by Dan337 and appears on 6 other lists
mill 890996 19 was added by Dan337 and appears on 18 other lists
CD 890997 3 was added by Dan337 and appears on 2 other lists
Cid 890998 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
Di 890999 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
Dix 891000 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
I'd 891001 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
I'll 891002 2 was added by Dan337 and appears on 1 other list
I'm 891003 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
Li 891004 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
M.D. 891005 1 was added by Dan337 and appears on just this list
DC 891006 2 was added by Dan337 and appears on 1 other list
Mimi 891007 3 was added by Dan337 and appears on 2 other lists
villi 891021 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
midi 891022 5 was added by mollusque and appears on 4 other lists
immix 891023 8 was added by mollusque and appears on 7 other lists
vild 891025 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
cimicid 891028 2 was added by mollusque and appears on 1 other list
mimid 891030 2 was added by mollusque and appears on 1 other list
vill 891033 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
mil 891035 10 was added by mollusque and appears on 9 other lists
Dili 891037 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
limid 891051 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
cixiid 891064 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
dixid 891065 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
dilli 891066 1 was added by mollusque and appears on just this list
lil 891067 5 was added by mollusque and appears on 4 other lists
vi 891068 2 was added by mollusque and appears on 1 other list
li 891069 13 was added by mollusque and appears on 12 other lists
xi 891070 13 was added by mollusque and appears on 12 other lists
vim 891071 72 was added by mollusque and appears on 71 other lists
dim 891072 25 was added by mollusque and appears on 24 other lists
mic 891073 9 was added by mollusque and appears on 8 other lists
Vic 891074 2 was added by mollusque and appears on 1 other list
lixivium 891631 8 was added by mollusque and appears on 7 other lists

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mollusque added 22 words
Dan337 added 19 words
Silenturion added 12 words
yarb added 2 words

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Silenturion I must admit a weakness for the u phoneme. Jan 25, 2011
Dan337 I installed some better lexicons, so here are some expanded word lists. The batch with no “U”s contains 84 words:
Cd, Ci, Cid, cill, civic, civil, Civil, Cl, Clim, Cm, dc, Di, did, Didi, dill, Dill, dilli, dim, divi, dividivi, Dix, dixi, Dixil, dm, id, Id, I'd, ill, Ill, I'll, Im, I'm, imid, imidic, immix, Ld, li, Li, lid, Lil, Lili, lill, Lilli, Lim, Liv, Livi, livid, Livvi, lm, Lviv, lx, MCI, Md, mi, mic, Mic, mid, Mid, midi, Midi, mil, Mil, mild, mill, Mill, Milli, mim, Mimi, mimic, mix, Mv, Vi, Vic, Vici, vid, vild, vill, villi, vim, Viv, Vivi, vivid, Vivl, & xi
There are 62 that employ “U” but not “V”:
cilium, Cu, cud, culicid, cull, Cull, culm, cumuli, Diu, Du, duci, dud, Dud, dui, Dulci, dull, dumdum, Dumm, dux, ilium, Ilium, Lilium, limuli, Liu, Lu, Luci, Lucic, lucid, lud, Lud, ludic, lull, Lull, lulu, Lulu, lum, lux, Lux, milium, millilux, mu, mucic, mucid, mucluc, mud, muid, mull, Mull, mulmul, mulmull, mum, mumm, mumu, muumuu, mux, Ul, Ulm, ulu, Ulu, um, umm, & xu
We end with the six bigeners:
diluvium, illuvium, lixivium, luv, Vul, & vum
Jan 25, 2011
Dan337 @mollusque: I take it back. That word looks mighty fine on this list. Jan 25, 2011
Dan337 Does anyone object to the chemical element symbols (“Cd”, “Cl”, “Cm” and “Md”)? (I already added “Di” and “Li” because they’re also names.) How about the unit abbreviations “cm”, “mm” and “Ci”? Jan 23, 2011
Dan337 Here are the extra words yielded (from the very limited lexicons I’m using) by mollusque’s suggestion:
cilium, Cu, cud, cull, cumuli, dud, dull, Lu, lucid, lull, Lulu, mu, mud, mull, mum, muumuu, & um
(That’s not bad at all.) I’m not brave enough to add them.

My personal opinion is that Us and Vs shouldn’t appear in the same word, so the are no Vs in the list. (That excludes “lixivium”, I’m afraid, although it is a thoroughly gorgeous word.) But I don’t make the rules here.
Jan 23, 2011
Dan337 Here’s a cheat:
grep -ivh "^IVXLCDM'" /usr/share/dict/*-english |
sort --unique
Here’s what it gives me. (I removed single-character “words”.) It looks like we’ve got most of them. You may get better results with a better lexicon.
Cd, Ci, Cid, civic, civil, Cl, Cm, Di, did, dill, dim, Dix, id, I'd, ill, Ill, I'll, I'm, Li, lid, livid, MCI, Md, mi, mid, mil, mild, mill, Mill, Mimi, mimic, mix, Vic, vim, & vivid
I find it alarming that these lexicons don’t include “cm” and “mm”. Jan 23, 2011
Silenturion Geez, hadn't thought of that. I remember that scene in Indiana Jones where he spells Jehovah with a J and almost falls to his death.
For truly Latin words like lixivium: I say go for it. You try it first, so the rest of us can see if you fall to your death. Mwahahaha! Jan 22, 2011
mollusque Are u's allowed, since they would have been written as v's in Latin? E.g., lixivium. Jan 21, 2011

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