For what it's worth, there were/are two Stanford computer science panvowel faculty of drastically different lengths: DONALD ERVIN KNUTH, and LEO GUIBAS. Never had any use for this trivia till now, so thanks for opening the category. On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 8:57 PM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Everybody knows FACETIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS. (Which also have the vowels in order, and have adverbs if you demand y.) But can you find a disyllabic less QUESTIONABLE than HOUSEPAINT?
I was shocked when Select[WordData[], ContainsAll[Characters@#, Characters@"aeiou"] &] returned 6899 hits. But most were multiword phrases like AMMONIUM NITRATE and VIRTUAL MEMORY. Precluding " " still left 1093(!), including some cheats like ACRYLONITRILE-BUTADIENE-STYRENE ("The three major food groups!" —Beldar Conehead)
There is at least one aeiou single word nation, chemical element, common vegetable, hideous parasite, medical condition, impossibly common word (automobile, inoculate) . . . I wonder if it's a quiz show category. —rwg _______________________________________________ math-fun mailing list math-fun@mailman.xmission.com https://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/math-fun