Fun with words in English

Submitted by Karthik on

There are some interesting things in English words and sentences, some of them are below:

Words with All 5 vowels

Iouea (a genus of sea sponges) - word only with vowels

Education
Automobile
Ultraviolet
Equation
Precarious
Behaviour
Authorities
Authorize
Authentication
Precaution
Auriferous
Mensuration
Tambourine
Evacuation
Remuneration
Regulation
Misbehaviour
Miraculousness
Misdemeanour
Preambulation
Unostentatious
Unobjectionable
Multimillionaire
Consequential


Words without  any vowels


Longest word without a vowel: symphysy


Dollar words


The word whose total value is exactly 100 when each of its letters is assigned a value according to its position in the alphabet: a=1, b=2, ..., z=26

Attitude, contented, cookout, mittens, shadowing


The longest English word:

antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters) - opposition to the separation of church and state

floccinaucinihilipilification (29 letters)  - the estimation of something as worthless

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters) - supposedly a lung disease


Sentences with all alphabets

The five boxing wizards jump quickly
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Crazy Fredericka bought many very equisite opal jewels.
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!
Wafting zephyrs quickly vexed Jumbo.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.

Autograms
An autogram is a self-referencing sentence that describes its content

example:
This sentence contains thirty-six letters

This sentence contains only three a's, three c's, two d's, twenty-five e's, nine f's, four g's, eight h's, twelve i's, three l's, fifteen n's, nine o's, eight r's, twenty-four s's, eighteen t's, five u's, four v's, six w's, two x's, and four y's.


 

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