Last week I posted a blog entry with a list of twenty-five four-letter words with three vowels. Here’s a list of fourteen more:
- naoi: ancient temples (pl. of noas)
- obia: a form of sorcery practiced in the Caribbean (also obeah)
- odea: concert halls (pl. of odeum)
- ogee: an S-shaped molding
- ohia: a Polynesian tree with bright flowers (also lehua)
- oleo: margarine
- olio: a miscellaneous collection
- ouzo: Turkish anise-flavored liquor
- raia: a non-Muslim Turk (also rayah)
- roue: a lecherous old man
- toea: a currency in Papua new Guinea
- unai: a two-toed sloth
- zoae: the larvae of some crustaceans
Jane Lucas 