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Strengths is the longest word in the English language containing only one vowel.
Scraunched and schmaltzed are the longest monosyllabic words in current usage.
Twyndyllyngs is the longest word without any of the common vowel letters a, e, i, o, or u (although w and y function as vowels in this word).
Euouae, a medieval musical term, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. However, the "word" itself is simply a mnemonic consisting of the vowels to be sung in the phrase "seculorum Amen" at the end of the lesser doxology. (Although u was often used interchangeably with v, and the variant "evovae" is occasionally used, the v in these cases would still be a vowel.)
The longest words with no repeated letters are dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly and uncopyrightables. [11]
The longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus.
The longest words typable with only the left hand (using conventional hand placement on a QWERTY keyboard) are tesseradecades, aftercataracts, and the more common but sometimes hyphenated sweaterdresses.
Conversely, using the right hand alone, the longest word that can be typed is johnny-jump-up, or, excluding hyphens, hypolimnion.
The longest word typable using only the top row of letters is not typewriter, as is commonly believed: teetertotter is longer, though it is sometimes hyphenated and in Great Britain is known as a see-saw.
The longest words typable by alternating left and right hands are antiskepticism and leucocytozoans respectively. [12]
On a Dvorak keyboard, the longest "left-handed" words are papaya, Kikuyu, opaque, and upkeep.[13] There are no vowels on the right-hand side, and thus no "right-handed" words.
The longest word with the vowels in order is abstemiously.