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Name English words that contain all 5 vowels (aeiou). How many ? How many have the vowels in order? What about throwing in y?
I will give count - 9 words with 5 vowels, 4 words with vowels in order, 3 words with 'y'
In order: facetious, abstemious,
5 vowels: pneumonia
I'm sure there are more, but can't think of them at the moment....
updated riddle with counts I have. If you have more, then share with us.
subcontinental
Trivially we have facetiously and abstemiously
I also have sacrilegious and adventitious, unless you mean exactly 5 vowels.
ooh...are we counting american trees in this?
*pulls out the medical books*
surely there's words with 15 vowels in there 
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
and no, I don't care that that's 2 words.
vivaciousness
ultrarevolutionaries (2 of each vowel)
oooh nice one
i just noticed that Sir Montague has 1 of each vowel.
So it does!!
please single words only and I will give correct answers after few days as everybody is going at giving words....I will divide points appropriately.
Here is what is not acceptable so far..... (but good job all)
"Sir Montague" ..LOL but NO
ooh...are we counting american trees in this? yes, any ENGLISH word.
ultrarevolutionaries .....nice.....but no multiples, looking for words with 5 vowels.. but thanks for sharing
Deoxyribonucleic acid........NO, single words only
Good job all.....keep going at this one.
sequoia
equation
dialogue
euphoria
outraise
phragelliorhynchus
nonunderstandingly
unconvinceably
unnoticeably
uncomplimentary
pulls out the medical books.......NO , Absolutely NO medical words as they are not common English words in dictionary (most of them). Also we do not want to complicate things. I know a website created by someone who came up with 5942 english words with 5 vowels. I am only looking for 9 commonly used words.
No derived words also like un**, **ous, **ness
No plurals
No names of people
what has been said that is acceptable?
Following are correct so far :
sexytemper - facetious, abstemious, pneumonia
Sir Montague - sequoia, equation, dialogue, euphoria
drdec - facetiously and abstemiously
Remaining to be solved
4 words with all 5 vowels
2 words with these vowels in order
1 more word with 'y' throwed in
how can you say 'facetiously' and 'abstemiously' are acceptable words when we've said others with un*ness*ous* whatevers?
why is subcontinental not acceptable?
it has no uns nesses or ouses....
Why do we continue to reason with someone who has demonstrated he is incapable of being reasoned with?
Fun?
Masochism of the mind?
Because someone is wrong on the internet!
equivocal
education
precaution
authorise
regulation
tambourine
how can you say 'facetiously' and 'abstemiously' are acceptable words when we've said others with un*ness*ous* whatevers?........facetious and abstemious are not derived words like other words like
why is subcontinental not acceptable? Base word is subcontinent, hence it is derived. equivocal ....yes Sir Montague got few more...... ANSWERS : Aceriflorum facetiously +0.25 sexytemper, +0.25 drdec, +0.5 Sir Montague
Arteriosum
Facetious
abstemious
sequoia
equation
dialouge
pneumonia
euphoria
eulogia
tambourine
equivocal
PRECAUTION
abstemiously
equivocally
And Dorian Gray gets nothing for equivocal?
OMG ... I screwed up again........let me give you points for 1 word
+0.25 dorian gray
what!?!
why aren't all my words worth 0.25 each???
Maybe I should get 0.1 point? Or 0.05 point? :)
Never mind... Whatever. I see that quarter points are already a bit unpopular...
Sorry, I just saw the discussion on Scoreboard II... it looks like I got more than my fair share on this one... But I thought I should say something because I felt left out when my word was accepted by FLG (a feat in itself!) but then wasn't even mentioned in the point calculation.
Quarter points I can handle, fractions below that, or not in nice neat divisions by 2 would get fiddly
It wouldn't really be a big thing... adding fractions isn't exactly high level maths, but if I can avoid it.... 
Perhaps we could develop a Paint diagram to help you out?
Haha... no, I think I can manage to visualise little circles without a visual aid
maybe people could have honourable mentions if they haven't quite done enough for a quarter point.
So long as I don't have to keep count of honourable mentions, or decide an exchange rate between honourable mentions and actual points...
precarious
behaviour
*imagines a juggling bottles of nitroglycerine, while riding a unicycle made of knives across a burning bridge while shouting racially charged expletives at a bunch of enraged ethnics*
oh, and the ethnics have shotguns that shoot sharks.
