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effigy has added 482 words, 7 lists, 13 comments, and 27 tags.

Mirrored Vowels

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Rules:
• The word must have an even number of vowels.
• There must be four or more vowels; thus, at minimum, an A-A-A-A or A-B-B-A pattern.
• The vowels must appear in a mirrored pattern. For example, the vowels in "feminine" follow the pattern A-B-B-A (or E-I-I-E for the literal-minded).
• No "-ed"s or "-ing"s.
• "y" is valid.
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cottonwood   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 10 times with 0 comments

quadricentennial   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cardiological   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

arugula   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 30 times with 8 comments

repetitiveness   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cryptozoology   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 14 times with 0 comments

foolproof   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 8 times with 2 comments

voodoo   was added by Yaybob and has been listed 42 times with 16 comments

thioindigoid   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

preschooler   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

prepackage   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

precedence   was added by effigy and has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

prearrange   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

plebiscite   was added by effigy and has been listed 13 times with 0 comments

peewee   was added by effigy and has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

nonintervention   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

muumuu   was added by effigy and has been listed 21 times with 9 comments

microscopic   was added by effigy and has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

maharaja   was added by effigy and has been listed 9 times with 0 comments

hoodoo   was added by effigy and has been listed 26 times with 13 comments

herbicide   was added by effigy and has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

heartache   was added by effigy and has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

gingivitis   was added by effigy and has been listed 10 times with 1 comment

freebee   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

feebleness   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

explicitness   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

expandable   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

excrescence   was added by effigy and has been listed 29 times with 4 comments

excellence   was added by effigy and has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

enfeeble   was added by effigy and has been listed 3 times with 1 comment

emergence   was added by effigy and has been listed 12 times with 0 comments

embezzlement   was added by effigy and has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

effervesce   was added by effigy and has been listed 18 times with 2 comments

eatable   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

earache   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

dieresis   was added by effigy and has been listed 10 times with 0 comments

deterrence   was added by effigy and has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

detachable   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

dependence   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

dentifrice   was added by effigy and has been listed 6 times with 0 comments

delimiter   was added by effigy and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

deference   was added by effigy and has been listed 23 times with 0 comments

defenseless   was added by effigy and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

belligerencies   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

intermesenteric   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

semiprotolite   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

lepidomorphite   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unsolicitous   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unpropitious   was added by mollusque and has been listed 4 times with 0 comments

unofficious   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

suppositious   was added by mollusque and has been listed 5 times with 0 comments

terminologies   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

lepidocrocite   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

stercobilinogen   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

reprovisioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

repositioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

reconditioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

recommissioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

prepositioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

preconditioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

deconditioned   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

zygomorphy   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cystostomy   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cyclotomy   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

hypotrophy   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

hypocotyl   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

cryoscopy   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

zumbooruk   was added by mollusque and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

uncolour   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

subdolous   was added by mollusque and has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

humongous   was added by mollusque and has been listed 14 times with 0 comments

subminimum   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

judicium   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

glucinium   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unrespectful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unresentful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unneedful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

unheedful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

uneventful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

uncheerful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

suspenseful   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

supersleuth   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

subthalamus   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

quadratus   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

outhumor   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

postilion   was added by mollusque and has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

nonillion   was added by mollusque and has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

nonfiction   was added by mollusque and has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

modillion   was added by mollusque and has been listed 5 times with 1 comment

coition   was added by mollusque and has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

moniliform   was added by mollusque and has been listed 3 times with 0 comments

fortissimo   was added by mollusque and has been listed 7 times with 0 comments

overreport   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

overrespond   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

nonfreehold   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

foreperson   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

corepressor   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

montenegro   was added by mollusque and has been listed 2 times with 1 comment

congressperson   was added by mollusque and has been listed 2 times with 0 comments

okavango   was added by mollusque and has been listed 1 time with 0 comments

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about 1 year ago mollusque said:

Thanks, effigy. I was thinking of things like embarrassed and embarrasses, where even if you disallow "-ed", "-es" still brings it into play.

By the way, I've tagged the vowel sequence for most of the words on this list. I skipped a few like colesterol and recomposer, which are Spanish.

about 1 year ago effigy said:

My first thought was no -eds or -ings because they throw an extra vowel in play, whereas -s does not; however, I'm open to suggestions. I'll cross it out for now—let's see what you've got!

Thanks for the Ukrainian catch. I'll try to figure out how that slipped in there. Ah ha! My program had a bug: the strip all non-vowels part was case sensitive, thus ignoring "U."

about 1 year ago mollusque said:

Hi effigy! Glad to see another vowelhound on Wordie. A couple of questions and comments. Why no -eds or -ings, but plurals allowed? I'd say, prefer the shortest form that contains the sequence, but if adding the ending produces the sequence, why not allow it?

Ukranian doesn't fit the pattern.

about 1 year ago effigy said:

Perl to the rescue!

#open my $LIST, '-|', 'look "*"' or die $!; ### Solaris 5.8
#open my $LIST, '<', '/usr/share/dict/american-english' or die $!; ### Ubuntu
while (<$LIST>) {
    chomp;
    my $original = $_;
    s/[^aeiouy]//gi;
    my $len = length $_;
    next if $len < 4 || $len % 2;
    my $halfway = ($len + 1) / 2;
    my ($first, $second) = (
        substr($_, 0, $halfway),
        substr($_, $halfway, $len),
    );
    my $r_first = reverse $first;
    next if $r_first ne $second;
    print "$original: $first/$second\n";
}

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