Can you name the words with more vowel letters than consonant letters?

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  • Proper nouns not included. 'Y' not counted as a vowel letter. Alternate spellings with more vowels, generally British and Commonwealth variants, preferred wherever possible.
  • Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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DefinitionWord
Microscopic single-celled protozoan organism
Monetary unit of Mauritania
Strange, weird, creepy
A word whose sound imitates what it represents; the use of such words
Ideal, often unrealistically perfect place
A line of people, etc., waiting for something
The middle classes; (Marxism) the capitalist classes
(poetic) Beautiful
An immeasurably long time
Bold, daring
DefinitionWord
Watery; containing water
(plural) Areas in theatres, halls, etc. where the audience sits
(pathology) Any of several diseases which affect the bone marrow and result in abnormally high numbers of white blood cells
(prosody; plural) Stops or breaks in the middle of a line or verse (e.g. of poetry)
A passion for or obsession with wine
(cookery) Garlic mayonnaise
(mycology) (said of a parasitic fungus) Inhabiting a single host throughout its life
(volcanology) A type of rough, basaltic lava
Either of two giant Californian coniferous trees
(law) A person to whom property is transferred
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Vowel-heavy words Quiz

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  • Created Jan 21, 2011 in Language
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