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Only Three Words with Two consecutive U's
Only Word Ending With "mt"
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." Other words like redreamt,undreamt,outdreamt and daydreamt are the derivatives of the word "Dreamt" itself.
Shortest Word Containing All The 5 VOWELS
"Eunoia" is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels.
Eunoia means "beautiful thinking".
It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.
Words ending with "dous"
There are only four words in the English language which end in dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
Longest words
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
"Typewriter" is the only longest word with all the letters in same line of keyboard.
"Typewriter" is the only longest word with all the letters in same line of keyboard.
THREE CONSECUTIVE DOUBLE LETTER WORD
"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.
SHORTEST WORD CONTAINING A,B,C,D,E,F
The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback."
PARASKEVIDEKATRIAPHOBIA
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF "PARASKEVIDEKATRIAPHOBIA".............???
The fear of Friday the 13th is called "paraskevidekatriaphobia",a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (from phóbos , meaning fear). The term triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek words "tris", meaning 'three', "kai", meaning 'and', and "deka", meaning 'ten'. The word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called "paraskevidekatriaphobia",a word derived from the concatenation of the Greek words Paraskeví (meaning Friday), and dekatreís (meaning thirteen), attached to phobía (from phóbos , meaning fear). The term triskaidekaphobia derives from the Greek words "tris", meaning 'three', "kai", meaning 'and', and "deka", meaning 'ten'. The word was derived in 1911 and first appeared in a mainstream source in 1953.
WORDS CONTAINING ALL THE VOWELS IN CORRECT ORDER
"ABSTEMIOUS and FACETIOUS are the two words that contains all the vowels in their correct order".
MEANINGS:
Abstemious:
MEANINGS:
Abstemious:
- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
- marked by temperance in indulgence
- cleverly amusing in tone
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