Two weeks ago, I published a blog post that listed twenty-four words with three vowels. Knowing those words, and others with multiple vowels, proves useful when you’re faced with a rack of mostly, or all, vowels. Here’s a list twenty more four-letter words with three vowels:
- naoi: ancient temples (pl. of naos)
- obia: 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)
- olea: corrosive solutions (pl. of oleum)
- olio: a miscellaneous collection
- ouzo: a 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 (pl. unai; an ai is a three-toed sloth)
- zoea: the larvae of some crustaceans
Jane Lucas 