Stuff You Didn’t Know

Fund ends in und.

This was great, thanks for taking the time to compile these interesting tidbits.

But Fund doesn’t START with Und…duh.

But it doesn’t start with “und”.

Interesting list.

Yes, but it doesn’t begin with it.

under, understood, nitrous acid, other chemical names ending in ous

Uncopyrightable isn’t the only 15 letter word that has no letter repeated. There’s also dermatoglyphics.

Fund doesn’t start with “und”, but “underfund” does

This piece just reenforced my love of words….thanks

how about underfund - or is it hyphenated?

This item re-enforces my love of the lanuage.

Fund may end in end, but it doesn’t start with it, Visitor. And, ha, jonz00r, you’re outright ridiculous. XD

““Underground” is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters “und.””

Underfund.

You have misread it. It said ‘underground’ begins AND ends in ‘und’. Also the suffix mentioned was ‘dous’ not ‘ous’.

i think strengths is the longest 1 syllable, at 9 letters

Good lord, people….read a little more carefully. “Nitrous” doesn’t end with “dous,” and “understood” doesn’t both begin and end with “und.”

UNDerfUND.
does that count?

Great list, though I have seen bigger lists before.

William Shakespeare also died on his birthday.

Is underfund a word?

Thanks. Fun read.

I think think he meant “underfund” which IS a word, as in, “The contract was underfunded and didn’t succeed.”

See metafilter.com for rebuttals of this innacurate recycling of trivial error list

underfund?

goldfish 3 seconds? http://ask.yahoo.com/20051129.html

testify? http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=testify

etc. bullshit

A lot of this is inaccurate.
Goldfish lay eggs, they don’t even get pregnant, and Mythbusters proved they have memory.
Mythbusters also proved it is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.

A lot of these things are stupid, false or just reiterate etymological urban legends.

Here are some examples, which took me three minutes to check:

“Underground” is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters “und.”

What about underfund? It’s even more compact.

UNDERFUND
from American Heritage Dictionary
un·der·fund (Å­n’dÉ™r-fÅ­nd’) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. un·der·fund·ed, un·der·fund·ing, un·der·funds
To provide insufficient funding for.

The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”

Off the top of my head, “scrunched” and “scratched” are equally as long.

“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters
“mt”.

“Undreamt” is listed as a variant of “undreamed” in most dictionaries, just as “dreamt” is listed as a variant of “dreamed.”

There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

Exactly! Except for “annelidous,” “apodous,” “discordous,” “frondous,” “hybridous,” “infandous,” “iodous,” “jeopardus,” “molybdous” and “nefandous.”

More common words ending in -ous: anxious, conspicuous, contagious, curious, delicious, enormous, fabulous, gorgeous, hideous, hilarious, nervous, obnoxious, previous, serious, tedious, zealous
It is “obvious” there are many more than three.

underfund

undulate, undue, underestimate…. uh, under?

But Fund doesn’t START with Und…duh.

Underfund, however, does.

Underfund

The story of how microwave ovens were invented, is apocryphal, although it does relate to the creation of the world’s first attempt at a commercial ‘radar oven’, the ‘Raytheon Radarange’.

Microwaves, had been proposed as a means of transfering energy to (and between) targets, long before their anciliary use, as a way of detecting and shooting down aeroplanes, was found. The main obstacle to actually attempting this, was the sheer cost involved. The magnetrons used in microwave generation orginally used expensive and rather exotic components. Throughout the 1940s, the Raytheon Defense Corporation had been working on reducing the cost of making microwave generators for the radar business (largely in a bid to avoid the US having to suffer another embarrasing “Perl Harbour moment”).

Dr. Percy Spencer, a lead engineer with Raytheon, observed the profound heating effects exhibited by microwaves on food, plants - and, indeed, anything else containing water - including himself, and his fellow workers. This led him to believe that a cooking device that used directed microwave energy, might be commercially viable.

The resulting lead-shielded monstrosity weighed in at three quarters of ton, and was useful for taking perfectly good and nourishing ingredients, like broccoli, and turning them into superheated, soggy, inedible stodge (with dry bits in). Given that this device lay in the same price bracket as machines used to crack enemy coding-enciphers, Raytheon decided that they should perhaps concentrate on the ’shooting down aeroplanes’ business, as a better and more reliable market (one that they still, quietly, dominate).

Spenser’s discovery was much more useful, in highlighting the need to place emergency telephone lines near to large radar arrays - should you become stranded within them, and begin to cook.

Commercially succesful microwave ovens had to wait until the mid 1970’s, when Japanese mass manufacture allowed the production of small, compact microwaves, that weighed less than a family car. This, along with a wider availability of soggy, inedible ingredients, that were already disgusting, before anyone put them in a microwave oven (and were thus immune to the detrimental effects of microwave cooking), allowed the microwave market, we now know and love, to come into existence. The real breakthrough, however, had to wait until the early 80s when a new type of General Public - one that was more willing to ingest wet soggy slop, with dry bits in it - became commonplace. It is widely believed that it took several generations of exposure to Happy Meals, and Fried Chicken, for people’s general expectations about food to fall sufficiently low for the microwave oven to become a commercially viability.

This, is why they are called ‘microwave’ ovens, instead of ‘radar’ ovens (the name Spenser proposed).

I’ve been in a firehouse in Berlin that had the stables on the second floor, which the horses reached by way of a circular stair.

Scratched, scrounged, scrunched and stretched are also one syllable. Strengthed has 10 letters, and is in the OED.

Dreamt is correct.

Almonds are a member of the genus Plumus, which does include peaches as well as plums, cherries and apricots.

The preferred unicode name for # is Number Sign. It’s also called the Pound Sign in the US, and Hash in the UK. Octothorpe is a name for it, but it’s rarely used and is in no way the “proper” name.

There are several causes of ingrowing toenails, including a hereditary tendency.

Set is correct.

Underfund, undersound and underwound also begin and end with und, though they are rarer (not in all dictionaries)

“dous” is correct.

Longest word in the OED is correct.

Longest place name, officially recognised, is correct.

Cat has 32 muscles in ear, is correct.

Ostrich eye bigger than brain is correct.

Donald Duck’s middle name is correct.

Al Capone’s business card is correct.

Steely Dan were indeed named after a dildo.

There is no word for a pregnant goldfish, as goldfish do not get pregnant! The eggs are fertilized after they’re laid

Therein actually contains 13 words: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein

Dueling is indeed legal in Paraguey, found no mention of them having to be blood donors though.

Goldfish actually have a memory of at least 3 months and can be taught various tricks.

Uncopyrightable is the only such word in common use. Others, such as dermatoglyphics are only found in specialist dictionaries.

“Shah Mat” means, literally, “the King is ambushed”, not “dead”.

Tired now. Going to leave the rest to someone else!

START and end in “und”. End in “-dous”, not “-ous”.

I have in the past encountered “underfunded” with respect to charitable appeals for money. (”We are underfunded by government, so we need your help.”) Would it not follow, therefore, that “underfund” is also a word and thus deserving of the same description used here for “underground” (albeit without the “only”)?

And while we’re at it, “ough” can also be pronounced “ock”, as when it is used in “turlough”.

And finally, I really didn’t need to know that thing about frogs.

Underfund.

Interesting stuff though.

jonz00r, you gotta read more closely man. None of your examples fit. under and understood begin with “und” but don’t also end with “und”. Nitrous and other chemical names ending in “ous” doesn’t exactly end with “dous” does it.

You can sneeze with your eye open, Mythbusters.

It’s days of yore, not days of “lore” for the setting on your firehouse tale. There was lore about yore but not the other way ’round. Thanks for the interesting list in any event.

On the subject of the Emu & Kangaroo being on the Australian Coat of Arms; Australia is the only country that eats the animals on their coat of arms (or so I’ve been lead to believe).

Under and understood don’t end in -und. UNDergroUND is only word that does.

And “nitrous” ends in “-rous”, not “-Dous” (notice the D.)

> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Urban myth, untrue.

can i take this to send to friends? A little extra knowledge never hurt anyone.

The interesting thing about the word “STRENGTHS” is that not only is it 9 letters and one syllable, it has only one vowel. I think it is the longest one-syllable word with that distinction. I can’t think of another word that’s even close.

But the longest one syllable word of all is “Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” of course (depending on the height from which you fall).

or “phhhhlllllllllllbpt”

Glad I could add to the discussion.

Sequoia is the only English word that contains all of the vowels (except y). Not 100% if that’s true or not.

The words “Testes” and “testicles” weren’t used in ancient Rome. They were named by medieval monks, who thought that “Testes” (ie. witnesses) would be an amusing name for them.

“There is no word for a pregnant goldfish, as goldfish do not get pregnant! The eggs are fertilized after they’re laid”

. . . . . . . . . .

True; Goldfish lay eggs which are then fertilized… and often eaten. The originator of that nugget of “trivia” may have meant “Guppy” which is one of the most common fresh water aquarium fish - which are often just referred to as goldfish though they are not. *(don’t think of those spherical japanese goldfish what wiggle around the aquarium in perpetual surprise… think of the original carp-shaped ones and their shape similarities to the untrained eye)

Guppies bear live young and therefore can qualify (colloquially) as “pregnant”…

Though I’ve not been able to confirm “TWIT”.

Explanation of the dubious origins of this urban legend. *(Apparently confused with an archaic usage of “Twat”. My grandmother’s new boyfriend would not be amused.)

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.html

I propose:

TWIT: (n) The word for a person who thinks goldfish can be “pregnant”.
see: “George W. Bush”.

Devlyn: Not true. As the original list pointed out, facetious, abstemious, and arsenious all contain all the vowels (in order, even!). And if you make facetious into an adverb (facetiously) it even includes y. I suspect there are also other words that contain all the vowels not in alphabetical order, but as it’s 2:15 in the morning, I don’t feel like it’s actually worth looking up.

Facetious is the only word in the English language that contains all vowels, except y, in the order they appear in the alphabet.

Oops! Just read to bottom of list and discovered my previous comment already addressed.

Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the
left hand.

Europe is the only continent that can be typed using one line of the keyboard. =)

Interesting…but blog should have been called, “Stuff I never needed to know and will probably forget by the end of the week.”

i don’t think i saw anyone mention this one.

The thing about Oz being named for a filing cabinet is a popular myth. The name came from the abbreviation for “ounce”. The original story is a political allegory and Oz is the measurement used for Gold & Silver, represented by the yellow-brick road and the silver slippers.

Other interesting bits (I can’t remember them all, sorry):
The tin woodsman represented the factory workers in the cities; the scarecrow represented the farm workers; the witches each represented a political ideology that was particularly strong in their corresponding areas of the country and which Baum saw as positive or negative, depending on how the witch was named.

Jeopardous ends in ‘dous’

Actually, what Mythbusters proved was that your eyes won’t pop out of your head if you sneeze while holding your eyes open. They proved nothing about the human body’s ability to sneeze while the eyes are open - not being held open.

Watches are set to 10:10 because advertisers thought that it made it look like the watch was smiling at you (\/), this continued through to many (but not all) digital watch ads.

unkempt

you can sneeze with your eyes open… they tested it on Mythbusters!

The time displayedon watches is not 10.10.
It is 10.12. This is beacuse 12 mins past 10 is symmetrical

I might be a computer geek, but what about

Undefined? as in Undefined variable…i see that all the time.

It’s true that Australians eat the animals displayed on the coat of arms, but only in recent years. When it was designed I don’t think it was ever thought that the animals would be eaten. Although there are a lot of Aussies who would never eat roo or emu meat.

There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

This isn’t true. There’s annelidous. It is the scientific name for worms.

that thing about the ramses condemns? doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in their ability to prevent conception, eh?

oh, and william shakespeare’s exact birth date is actually unknown.

You say “screeched” is the longest single syllable word in English at 9 letters. I think the true longest is “broughammed” at 11 letters? I’ve squirreled (10 letters) away some other pretty long ones, but I can’t remember them now.

what about “underwear”?

One syllable, one vowel, nine letters long,
With diphthongs of extraordinary lengths;
I hope the hint I give is not too strong:
What common English word has all these strengths?

SEQUOIA is the only SEVEN letter word with all five vowels !!

It is unscrupulous of you to suggest that there are only four words ending in “ous”. It makes me undulate in horror.

Congress decided to underfund the xyz project.

Please note the word that starts and ends with “und.”

oops.

Strengths is also a nine letter one sylable word

It irritates me to read the comments left by people who barely skimmed the article and jumped right to the bottom to leave a comment. “What about underwear?” Uh…what about it? It doesn’t end in “UND”. So…were you just itching to drop the word underwear on the comment section of some blog? Or how about this one…”It is unscrupulous of you to suggest that there are only four words ending in “ous”. It makes me undulate in horror.” Okay, Dude. No one EVER said that only four words end in “OUS”. Read the article. And if you can’t read the article, read all the comments that have already addressed the issue. It was four words ending in “DOUS”. WITH A “D”!!! Cool?

All of the political style comments on The Wizard of Oz are take from later versions. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz became public domaine and many ‘Directors’ put their own spin on it, against Baums wishes.
It was also said (By Baums wife after his death) that the idea of the name came from the Ooos and Ahhs that came from childern who listened to Baum read to them. She said that he loved to read to children.

Shakespeare is said to have been born on April 23rd 1564 and died 23 April 1616. He was certainly baptised on 26th April and 3 days after birth would have been about the correct time in those days.

This date is also St George’s Day and St George is the patron saint of England (despite probably being (A) mythical and if not, (B) Turkish…)

The goldfish one is wrong. They have a memory longer then 3 seconds. They proved it on the show Mythbusters.

Theres no such thing as a pregnant fish. They lay eggs

Los Angeles’s full name is “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la
Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can be
abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, “L.A.”

Is not “Senora”, it must be written “Señora”. Senora means nothing in spanish.

@anj

“broughammed”? Care to give a definition? “squirreled” is quite plainly two syllables as well: “squirr-eled”.

I think “squelched” deserves to be mentioned too though.

And just for fun,

slough has 3 different pronunciations (6 entries at M-W dictionary):
“sloo” “slow”-as in rhymes with cow, and “sluff”

was that the japonese goldfish or the hollywood blonde goldfish that only as the 3 second memory span…….

God this article makes me so angry I could scream. Of course there is more than one word that begins with und. How about underneath?? Well??? I’m sure there are loads more but that might involve spending more than 2 seconds reading something and then actually understanding what is written. I couldn’t possibly do that - this is the internet you know!!

man who has time to write another essay about another essay they should disable comments for this because no one cares!

Confucius say, Man who what to be publicly humbled first put “comment HTML” at bottom of web page.

actually, there is another 15 letter word that doesn’t repeat letters: dermatoglyphics

Great compilation of little known information. Thanks for the list!

It is not true that a pregnant goldfish is called a twit: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020329.html

Cecil Adams is never wrong.

UNDergroUND UND UND UND UND! Begins AND ends with UND! There are something like 500+ words beginning with und. (not counting scientific names or historic/place names.)

Fun list of info though.

..it’s like people were beat with stupid sticks all their lives…

How about “facetiously”, a word that contains all five vowels plus “y” all in order?

Apparently no one bothers to read these comments before posting something. 4/5 of the comments are people suggesting words that either end or begin with “und” and people telling them that the word has to start and end with those letters. Or else it’s someone suggesting “underfund” for the hundredth time. And how can so many people miss the “d” in “-dous”?

To those of you who added something useful to the discussion–which I did not–I thank you.

Telly Savalas died exactly one day after his 72nd birthday.
Louis Armstrong was born August 4th 1901 and July 6th 1971.

…and did you know that TYPEWRITER is the longest word which can be typed only using the top row of letters on a keyboard.

stewardesses is the longest worst typed by only yhte left hand (standard typing rules applicable)

Bunch of nimrods!!!
It’s a shame stupidity isn’t painful.

There are actually people that don’t have the reflex that closes people’s eyes when they sneeze.

Jesus, people. You should read this more carefully and stop posting stupid comments in response to what you believe to be “incorrect” facts. Some of these corrections are valid, obviously, but other people are just plain stupid.

Does anybody read the blogs before writing, or is it just fun to type the word underfund? Underfund, the name I give to my checking account.

A lot of stuff i didn’t know and might not use in life but it was still good to know…..i think….

Lollipop is the longest word typed with the right hand.

I think you folks have plenty of time on your hands ! And thats good . God Bless.

Uhmm….. So if you lay an egg but not a baby, you were never pregnant????

It has been scientifically proven in a valid experiment by MythBusters that goldfish do have a memory span more than the stated 3 seconds. The MythBusters trained goldfish to do mazes, with increased times, and to even ring a bell.

Incredulous?

Duh, right….dous

I’m a bit daft

Informative and hilarious……is that testicle one tru…..idk…but it was entertaining:-)

goldfish do have a memory span of more than 3 seconds… this was tested by making a simple maze, and being rewarded with food for going the right way… they memorised the maze and got quixker times each day for getting through it

No, guy: the extact name is even longer

“Ciudad de la Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles sobra la Porziuncola de Asìs”

You are wrong ….there are other words which end with -ous
For instance blasphemous

very interesting

guys….good you ppl know much more than what the original poster has but you can be decent in your comments….sickos….waiting to snap at any one given a chance !!!

fractious \FRAK-shuhs\, adjective:
1. Tending to cause trouble; unruly.
2. Irritable; snappish; cranky.ka

man, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of idiots in the world that feel the need to criticize something when they haven’t taken the time to learn what they’re criticizing.

I’m sure this was interesting, but after I found the first thing wrong I stopped reading
There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

lucridous

A goldfish does not have a three second memory. How would they survive? How would they ever remeber to eat? To mate? These things ARE controlled through hereditary memory. Besides the obvious, there’s as much proof for the long memory as there is for reading helps your brain. Maybe you should try it?

Lucridous is not a word. Ludicrous!

Anyone know what’s the longest word in the English language that can be made using the letters only in alphabetical order?

hear a new fact for ya,

a putz is a ignorant buffoon.
A smuck is a putz with a hardon.

Which one are you?

I can’t believe how many times I read the same idiotic comment from so many illiterate people. I didn’t know understanding words was so hard… I think a new word is in order:

Undous: Adj. A comment so ignorant of the article or thread it pertains to, it makes you sick. As in “I can think of a hundred *famous* words ending in ous” in this thread.

i have a goldfish that knows when its time to eat and it dances til its feed. explain that, it also will follow you around the tank. i have two that will do that, they are very smart.

i would like to add to the list of words ending in ous.religious…………..

[Please note: I wrote up these comments before reading the other comments. Those already addressed are indicated with *]

Underground” is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters “und.”
Undum(b)found [don’t give me sh*t. Dictionaries don’t know everything]

*The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”
Tied with (at least) ‘strengths’ [put it in Courier, dingbat]

The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
plus the two words with a ‘k’ instead of the last ‘c’ in your words. Furthermore, the OED is *not* the last word for words: it misses out on lots of medical terms, many of which are longer. Note also your own word: Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwenuakitanatahu, which *is* an English word (they *do* speak English [among other things] in N. Z.) And even yet again once more furthermore, if you insist on a proportional type, then
‘Chargoggagoggmanchaugagoggchaubunagungamogg’ (the full name of Lake Chaubunagungamogg in New England) is ‘longer’ than the name for black lung.

There is a seven letter word in the English language that
contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters,
“therein” the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.
‘Re’ is an English word, as is ‘er’ [interjection] (cf. dictionary.com, NB: both common) [*also already noted: 'I']. ‘e’ is also a legitimate word (name of the letter). Note also that ‘ther’ gets 38 Megahits in Google (well, 848, but who’s counting). It is (again) a proper name, among other things (eg, a variant of ‘there’). ‘Therei’ is [several] proper name[s]. [‘herei’, ‘erein’, ‘rei’, ‘ei’ and ‘erei’ also seem to be words and/or proper nouns, at least in some languages (German, Greek, Romanian, ...), and you don’t say that you limit yourself to English.]

‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
What about right-hand amputees? For them it is some N. Z. mountain.

William Shakespeare also died on his birthday!

unsound is a word dont know if anyone mentioned that

The Guinness Book of World Records list Bangkok’s ceremonial name as the longest place name in the world.

“Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit”

And I would wager it’s probably in more common use than the one listed above as every Thai person learns it as a child in the same way we learn the alphabet song. But Thai people abbreviate it down to “Krung Thep”, I’m sure the other honorable mentions are abbreviated similarly.

you can sneeze with your eyes open.

/mythbusters

what about ‘undulant?’

“Undetermined” begins with “und”…

What about ravenous? joyous? There are probably a lot of incorrect things on this page. lame.

What a bunch of morons read this!

Oh - and I thought everybody knew that the longest word in the English language is actually “smiles” . . .

. . . because there is a mile between the first and last letters.

(Next question: Define “longest”!)

Kill Me Now, that was genius!

Yes, some of these are wrong, but a lot of the comments are too, and people keep giving the same stupid INcorrections after someone points out the flaw. So I guess I’ll take this round… probably in vain.

People like Tai:
Ravenous and joyous? They don’t end in ‘dous’ and they don’t contain all the vowels in order.

People like tom, Tony, and caananite:
Unsound, undulant, and undetermined don’t start AND end with ‘und.’

People like Quietudedude:
All of the listed words with the vowels in order are adjectives, so one could add ‘ly’ to any of them.

People like Anonymous:
It’s ‘obvious’ that those don’t end in ‘dous,’ first of all. Also, it’s ‘obvious’ that it said four, not three.

People like anon:
What does ‘unkempt’ have to do with anything?

Mythbusters proved the sneeze thing wrong…sorry

There are more than four words that end in DOUS. How about Stupendous?

the name of Los Angeles is “El pueblo de nuestra Señora la reina de los Angeles del rio de Porciuncula.” You left out “del rio”

Who cares? It is just a meanless list of random stuff, true or not. Go do something more productive (click that stumble button again), rather than critique each and every “fact” on here.

I thought that “testify” came originally from the Greeks, who would take an oath in court by grasping the testicles of a sacrificed goat/bull/male animal of some variety…those Romans copied and then took credit for everything!

i always thought that frank l. baum came up with the OZ of wizard of oz because the whole story centers around the use of the gold and silver standards in united states history, hence the silver slippers and the “yellow” brick road. and as everyone knows, gold and silver are weighed in ounces, abbreviated oz.

Thanks for this. Since we are focused on the English language here, one small suggestion (a correction, really): the phrase “[t]he only other word with the same amount of letters is…” uses “amount” incorrectly (an error made in a comment above too). “Amount” is used for items which cannot be individually counted (eg “amount of time”), so “number of letters” would be the correct formulation.

- I’m doubting the “OZ” reference. Baum wrote this book as a commentary on a controversial subject of his day; Silver Coinage. The debate over using silver as a material to mint coins from was VERY passionate at times.

I believe the “OZ” reference is a play on the abbreviation of the word “ounce”. All of the characters represented influence groups with an interest in the outcome. The Scarecrow represented farmers, the Tin Man represented the Industrial sector, etc.

very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce

apodous . Hey there are so many errors here - it it some kind of quiz?

Undone begins in und

uncopywritable is not the only 15 leeter word that does not contain the same letter twice….there is also dermatoglypics which i believe is the study of the lines on the hand.

Bollocks, bollocks and once more bollocks (Thanks to JJ for this).

sow .*mt
daydreamt
dreamt
outdreamt
redreamt
undreamt

sow und.*und
underfund
underground

sow .*dous
amadous
amphipodous
apodous
arthropodous
biohazardous
cephalopodous
chilopodous
cynopodous
decapodous
frondous
gasteropodous
gastropodous
hazardous
horrendous
hybridous
iodous
isopodous
jeopardous
ligniperdous
molybdous
multifidous
myriapodous
nefandous
nodous
nonhazardous
octopodous
ostracodous
palladous
paludous
polypodous
pudendous
rhizopodous
rhodous
sauropodous
schizopodous
solipedous
splendidous
steganopodous
stupendous
tetrapodous
tremendous
ultrahazardous
unhazardous
untremendous
uropodous
vanadous
vodous
voudous

sow [^aeiou]*a[^aeiou]*e[^aeiou]*i[^aeiou]*o[^aeiou]*u[^aeiou]*
abstemious
abstemiously
abstentious
arsenious
caesious
facetious
facetiously
halfseriously
parecious

The post was entertaining, but the comments are priceless; I read every one. I wish more had.

My two cents:

Europe is not a continent.

Here’s a new fact! 90% of the people who responded to this post can’t actually read. It’s “D”ous and und at the start AND end of the word.
I have a pregnant fish at home it’s a tetra, they give birth to live young, as do sharks.

when i tune into your mythbusters in western pe, it only says that you are exploring new concepts. no guidelline at all. we subscribe to directv and they seem to be getting lazier by the week. there are more than a few stations that list a movie by “1992″ and nothing else. can you do anything for this. kinda sucks when we are paying for the service.
thanks for your help.
me

see prev xcomment

see previous comment.

what about ‘promt’ that also ends with mt.

A goldfish has a longer memory span than 3 seconds. The Mythbusters tested that. Also, you can sneeze with your eyes open. You just have to hold it open.

word with the most consecutive consonants KNIGHTSBRIDGE — 6

There are only four words in the English language which end in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

What about “miraculous”

cool list, but i knew most of th estuff.
especially the Ingrown toenails are hereditary thingy. I had ingrown toenails so bad they had to remove the side of my big toe nails