A practice run for those Christmas Cracker riddles...

[p_p_man]

What's the only word in the English language that contains all the vowels in alphabetical order?

ppman

 

[Romial]

The most common known are probably facetious (meaning sarcastic), abstemious (meaning sparing or moderate), arterious (pertaining to artery) and annelidous (pertaining to annelid, which is a segmented worm). There's also anemious, adventitous, abstentious, acheilous, acherious, acleistous, affectious, aerious, arsenious, bacterious, caesious, caespitosum, caespitosus, fracedinous, gareisoun, gravedinous, majestious, materious, parecious, placentious, tragedious, and vaceious. Certain medical dictionaries would also yield the even more obscure arsenicosum, arteriosum, arteriosus, and catechicorum. For variation, the words unoriental, subcontinental, uncomplimentary, unnoticeably and quodliteral all contain each vowel in reverse order

 

[p_p_man]

Damn! Never trust Christmas cracker riddles...

Well, it was a practice run...



ppman

 

[Guest]

Romial, sometimes you are such a smart ass!

 

[Throckmorton]

make fecetious and adverb and you truly have them all
a e i o u y

facetiously