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Panvocalics

A list of 2809 words by mollusque.

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Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "y" are listed under Panvocalic euryvocalic. Capitalized words are under Panvocalic Proper, Panvocalic people, Panvocalic places or Panvocalic organisms; and non-English words under Panvocalic Polyglot. See also Panvocalic phrases, Panvocalic miscellany, and hernesheir's panvocalic lists: Panvocalic Plants, Panvocalic Mineral Names, and Euvocalic Mineral Names.

All of the words on this list have been used at least once in print, by an author who was not seeking to create a vowel or letter pattern. For ones that haven't appeared in print, that I know of, see Supervocalic in Waiting.

Use these links to see words I've tagged with a particular sequence of vowels: aeiou, aeiuo, aeoiu, aeoui, aeuio, aeuoi, aieou, aieuo, aioeu, aioue, aiueo, aiuoe, aoeiu, aoeui, aoieu, aoiue, aouei, aouie, aueio, aueoi, auieo, auioe, auoei, auoie, eaiou, eaiuo, eaoiu, eaoui, eauio, eauoi, eiaou, eiauo, eioau, eioua, eiuao, eiuoa, eoaiu, eoaui, eoiau, eoiua, eouai, eouia, euaio, euaoi, euiao, euioa, euoai, euoia, iaeou, iaeuo, iaoeu, iaoue, iaueo, iauoe, ieaou, ieauo, ieoau, ieoua, ieuao, ieuoa, ioaeu, ioaue, ioeau, ioeua, iouae, iouea, iuaeo, iuaoe, iueao, iueoa, iuoae, iuoea, oaeiu, oaeui, oaieu, oaiue, oauei, oauie, oeaiu, oeaui, oeiau, oeiua, oeuai, oeuia, oiaeu, oiaue, oieau, oieua, oiuae, oiuea, ouaei, ouaie, oueai, oueia, ouiae, ouiea, uaeio, uaeoi, uaieo, uaioe, uaoei, uaoie, ueaio, ueaoi, ueiao, ueioa, ueoai, ueoia, uiaeo, uiaoe, uieao, uieoa, uioae, uioea, uoaei, uoaie, uoeai, uoeia, uoiae, uoiea.

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  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Vancouverite - a native of Vancouver.

    November 8, 2007

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks for Vancouverite, yarb. It is indeed a panvocalic, but having two e's, it doesn't quite fit the pattern of the list. But it led me to Vancouverism, which does.

    November 8, 2007

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Vancouverism, eh? I didn't realise my city had an ethos!

    November 8, 2007

  • sionnach commented on the list panvocalics

    abstemiously and facetiously have always been my favorites, if only because the vowels appear in alphabetical order.

    November 8, 2007

  • sonofgroucho commented on the list panvocalics

    Nice list. I had never heard of panvocalics before.

    November 20, 2007

  • sionnach commented on the list panvocalics

    I am in awe of what can only be described as a magnificent obsession. Though, truth be told, there's also something a little bit scary about the comprehensiveness of this list.

    February 4, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, sionnach! I scare myself sometimes. Stay tuned for capitalized panvocalics and a pending call for some panvocalic desiderata (certain sequences not yet represented by satisfyingly English words).

    February 5, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Okay gang, I need some help finding a few select panvocalics. Of the 120 orders for five vowels, I've found credible, lowercase English examples for 117 (as tagged in the list description). Three remain.

    aeiuo: aegritudo (Latin) and "cane-liquor" (hyphenated) are the closest I've come.

    eaiuo: earthinductor has appeared in print, but is usually two words; beatitudo is Latin.

    oieau: moineau is listed in oed2 and cdc1, but seems not really to be naturalized from French; Cointreau is capitalized.

    March 11, 2008

  • skipvia commented on the list panvocalics

    Jeez, mollusque. If you can't find them, what chance do we have?

    Still, I'm off to look...

    March 11, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list panvocalics

    What skipvia said. But I'm game too. :-)

    March 11, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Happy hunting, skipvia and reesetee! I'm hoping you have access to different electronic lexicons than I do (e.g., LexisNexis, or a database of chemical or drug names) and can run pattern searchs. Or someone will come up with a madeupical word that turns out to exist in the wild.

    March 11, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    An update from the panvocalic campaign. I've created an open list, Panvocalic polyglot, for non-English panvocalics. Contributions are welcome.

    The quest for an English representative of the sequence aeiuo had a false alarm today. In pairing various prefixes with -fluor and -tumor, I found "Alexifluor", used as the name of a chemical. Unfortunately, it turned out to be an occasional misspelling of the brand name "Alexa Fluor", so the search continues.

    March 17, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Success! Wasteliquor has the elusive sequence "aeiuo". It's usually spelled "waste liquor", but there are enough examples in Google Books and Google Scholar to show that it's not just a typo as one word.

    March 18, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Wow! How did you find that ungainly but loveable word?

    March 18, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Yarb, I tested hundreds of combinations ("baseliquor", "caseliquor"...) looking for the pattern in a published source (rather than online only). Unfortunately, I must now report that "wasteliquor" is a false alarm. I was checking to see what the oldest instance was and discovered almost everything I'd found in Google Books or Google Scholar was an OCR error, with the image of the original document showing "waste liquor". So, the search resumes.

    I might as well report what else I've discovered for aeiuo: "barley liquor", "cane liquor", "glaze liquor", and "paste liquor"; "caesium clock" and "magnesium bomb"; the generic names "Caespitugo", "Capensibufo", and "Laeviturbo"; and Latin "acerbitudo", "aegritudo", "paenitudo" and "taetritudo".

    March 18, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list panvocalics

    Mollusque, you're my hero. This list is sick alsome.

    March 18, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, c_b! Between your Aubrey/Maturin List and my panvocalics, I think we have obsession covered.

    March 18, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list panvocalics

    And what delightful obsessions they are.

    March 19, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Look reesetee, there goes a black guillemot!

    March 20, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list panvocalics

    I wasn't counting myself out of the obsession thing, mollusque. :-)

    March 20, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    silvopasture

    May 17, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, whichbe! And for helluation, which I found on Injesterly yesterday.

    May 17, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    I'd imagine that long ago you've gone to www.onelook.com and typed in wildcard variants like *a*e*i*o*u* eh?

    May 18, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    I've done some such searching in OneLook, particularly for the rarer patterns, but the inability to filter out words with spaces makes it inefficient. Instead I've imported wordlists into my own database and done searches there where I can use better search tools.

    May 18, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks for the reminder about OneLook, whichbe. I took another look, and some features have been added since I last wrestled with it. It no longer limits the number of responses, so I don't have to split the search to b*a*e*i*o*u*, c*a*e*i*o*u*, etc. Also, the "common words only" option eliminates phrases and foreign words, but seems to leave in all English words regardless of rarity.

    May 18, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Turns out OneLook does limit the number of responses, to 2000. The limit used to be 400. Also, OneLook's "common" words options shows words occurring in more than five dictionaries.

    May 23, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    I never cared especially for panvocalics, but recently they've been in my thoughts more and more. As I read I'm aware of a part of my brain trailing along two paces behind my reading, scrutinising candidate words. I suppose it's just having them in the background on Wordie that's made them sink in like this.

    And I've realised that there are a few panvocalics which I consider "perfect", that is, those which don't make use of common vowel-heavy sequences like -ious or -ation. For example, loudhailer. Do you agree? What's your favourite panvocalic?

    October 9, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    I wanted to bring this up later, but there's actually an esoteric, 'spiritual' dimention to euvocalics (though this particular neologism is unique to Wordie) that stems back to ancient Egypt, discussed in a book I've recently finished called The Mystery of the Seven Vowels. I'll report more on this topic here in the near future.

    October 9, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Whichbe, I look forward to your report.

    Yarb, I agree, the most pleasing panvocalics aren't composed of standard prefixes and suffixes. They just come out of the blue. I don't have a single favourite, but here a few:

    tourmaline: well-known but beautiful;

    jacqueminot: like tourmaline, a color, which I also collect;

    milquetoast: a rare sequence of vowels not found in any other common word;

    miaoued: love that vowel cluster;

    resofincular: coined in 1976 for another purpose;

    proceduralist: my 10,000th word;

    syrup of ipecac: all six vowels in reverse;

    Leighton Buzzard: for sheer improbability.

    October 9, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Mountainness.

    n.b. I adore syrup of ipecac and Leighton Buzzard, too.

    October 12, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, yarb!

    Do you have other favorite panvocalics?

    October 12, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    Are there any panvocalics that contain all the vowels in a row, within the word, uninterrupted by another letter?

    October 15, 2008

  • bilby commented on the list panvocalics

    I don't think so. When mollusque finds such a word he will die and go to heaven. But seeing as he's still here ...

    October 15, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Miaoued.

    October 15, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list panvocalics

    Transliterated, μαιε�?ω (maieuo).

    October 15, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    What does miaoued mean?

    October 15, 2008

  • rolig commented on the list panvocalics

    The same as "meowed", I expect.

    October 15, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    I completed the panvocalic circumnavigation today, with the discovery of aceituno (a kind of tree) to represent the sequence aeiuo. (As the comments from seven months ago show, wasteliquor never panned out.)

    Perfect timing to celebrate my one-year Wordiversary! My oldest comments clicked over to "about 1 year ago" sometime this weekend.

    October 27, 2008

  • skipvia commented on the list panvocalics

    All Wordies are in awe of your accomplishment, mollusque. Congratulations.

    October 27, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list panvocalics

    quaestor

    October 29, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    No 'i' there, whichbe.

    n.b. mollusque - congratulations on your achievement. I for one wiped away a little tear when I saw aceituno.

    October 29, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Celivagous is a nonce word in Urquhart's Rabelais.

    October 30, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, yarb! I'm reading comments from the top down, so amused to see Rabelais crop up here as well as with fatiloquency. I did a essay in college on verbogenesis in his work--I wonder if I can dig up a copy.

    Aceituno completed the euvocalic set; my last desideratum is something better than earthinductor for eaiuo. (Of course I'm still chasing the 720 euryvocalic possibilities.)

    October 30, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Vaccigenous is the 2000th entry on this list!

    November 16, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list panvocalics

    Let's choose gifts for everywordie.

    December 29, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Is there a place for the hyphenated non-instrumental (and presumably other "non-" conjunctions) on any of your lists?

    March 18, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Hi, yarb. I include hyphenated words with Panvocalic phrases. I list noninstrumental and other "non-" words without the hyphen, assuming I've found an example in print.

    March 18, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Contubernial.

    Ah, I see you have contubernian.

    April 2, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Gustatories (citation - scroll up slightly).

    April 7, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, yarb!

    April 7, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Unaccompliced.

    May 6, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    With a citation!

    May 6, 2009

  • jcw commented on the list panvocalics

    Sequoia. And a favorite in French: oiseau.

    November 20, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list panvocalics

    This is an amazing list. I can't believe I haven't come across it before!

    *Favourited*

    December 11, 2009

  • marky commented on the list panvocalics

    mollusque, you're a pimp!

    December 11, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, PU and marky! Marky, do you mean Century Dictionary sense 1 or something rad on Urban Dictionary?

    December 11, 2009

  • marky commented on the list panvocalics

    I'll let you choose, how's that?! I was merely referring to this massive list of pure awesomeness. ;)

    thx to PossibleUnderscore for digging it up from the archives for me to notice too. :D

    December 11, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Is that a non-vocalic, PossibleUnderscore?

    December 24, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list panvocalics

    Haha!

    No, I was going to suggest adding 'euvocalics' and 'supervocalics' but after browsing through 2000 or so words I found you already had them.

    December 24, 2009

  • Prolagus commented on the list panvocalics

    Just found genusation (as opposed to speciation) in The Compleat Cladist.

    By the way, your links to the other panvocalics lists don't work.

    February 5, 2010

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Thanks, Pro! Links fixed.

    February 5, 2010

  • Prolagus commented on the list panvocalics

    How about the terrifying productizable? If you are more for the -eable suffix, there's always the euryvocalic productizeably.

    February 8, 2010

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    That could be a terrifying suffix, Pro. I'll have to explore it more.

    February 8, 2010

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    bungaloidest!

    July 26, 2010

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Just noticed uncellophaning on a citation I left two years ago.

    March 18, 2011

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    nausogenic gets plenty of hits, though perhaps you'd consider it a misspelling of nauseogenic.

    January 27, 2012

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    I do consider it a misspelling. How did you come across it.

    January 27, 2012

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    I ran across nauseogenic here and immediately went looking for a version with one less 'e'.

    January 27, 2012

  • zarathustra commented on the list panvocalics

    Are you still adding words to your panvocalic list?

    dungannonite?

    1. (Min.) A variety of diorite containing corundum and nepheline. 2. Someone from Dungannon, a town in Northern Ireland.

    Source: Webster's Second International Dictionary

    April 25, 2013

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    amplituhedron?

    September 19, 2013

  • mollusque commented on the list panvocalics

    Sweet! Thanks, yarb.

    September 20, 2013

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    "The following morning, the ivth, Scapa Flow was raided, and the old Iron Duke, now a demilitarised and disarmoured hulk used as a depot ship, was injured by near misses."

    - Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm

    March 17, 2015

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    Sequoical?

    November 13, 2015

  • yarb commented on the list panvocalics

    outraised

    June 23, 2016