Hello again, Teresa.
I thought I’d compose an email for you to read, rather than just look at oddball pictures.
I ran across a few words that contain all the vowels (except that part-timer, W), and they’re interesting for their meanings, too. I’m told that words using all five vowels called supervocalic, and one that uses only one vowel is univocalic.
1. sanguinolency (san-GWIN-uh-len-see), meaning addiction to bloodshed. Here’s an example of usage, from Gary Pettus in the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger, in a December 13, 2016 piece called “Words to Live by in Age of Trump”: “His advisors’ sanquinolency has produced a climate of lethophobia [fear of oblivion].”
2. autokinesy (auto-KIN-uh-see), meaning self-propelled or self-directed motion or energy. Usage example: Since my retirement I have worked in more of a mode for autokinesy. (You don’t mind if I make up my own usage sentence, do you?)
3. urticaceous (uhr-tih-KAY-shuhs), meaning related to a nettle, or stinging. (Although this word is cited as having all the vowels, it’s missing the ‘Y’, but I don’t care. It seems like a variant definition of supervocalic, though.) This particular word has the Latin root -urtica, meaning nettle, based on -urere, to burn. It reminds me of Utica, the town in New York near where I grew up. There’s probably a very different meaning to Utica, which I think is Greek, although I did find Utica pretty irritating at times.
I miss sending you words. I can’t promise I’ll pick it back up, but I do miss it. I hope all of you and yours are well and safe.
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