[url=http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words1.jpg][img]http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words1-tm.jpg[/img][/url] [b]25.[/b] �Rhythms� is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. [b]24.[/b] Excluding derivatives, there are only two words in English that end -shion and (though many words end in this sound). These are cushion and fashion. [b]23.[/b] �THEREIN� is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein. [b]22.[/b] There is only one common word in English that has five vowels in a row: queueing. [b]21.[/b] Soupspoons is the longest word that consists entirely of letters from the second half of alphabet. [url=http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/scrabble-letters-1.jpg][img]http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/scrabble-letters-1-tm.jpg[/img][/url] [b]20.[/b] �Almost� is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. [b]19.[/b] The longest uncommon word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops (a grass genus). [b]18.[/b] The longest common single-word palindromes are deified, racecar, repaper, reviver, and rotator. [b]17.[/b] �One thousand� contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A. [b]16.[/b] �The sixth sick sheik�s sixth sheep�s sick� is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English. [url=http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words-are-sweet-1.jpg][img]http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words-are-sweet-1-tm.jpg[/img][/url] [b]15.[/b] Cwm (pronounced �koom�, defined as a steep-walled hollow on a hillside) is a rare case of a word used in English in which w is the nucleus vowel, as is crwth (pronounced �krooth�, a type of stringed instrument). Despite their origins in Welsh, they are accepted English words. [b]14.[/b] �Asthma� and �isthmi� are the only six-letter words that begin and end with a vowel and have no other vowels between. [b]13.[/b] The nine-word sequence I, in, sin, sing, sting, string, staring, starting (or starling), startling can be formed by successively adding one letter to the previous word. [b]12.[/b] �Underground� and �underfund� are the only words in the English language that begin and end with the letters �und.� [b]11.[/b] �Stewardesses� is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand. [url=http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/crossword.gif][img]http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/crossword-tm.jpg[/img][/url] [b]10.[/b] Antidisestablishmentarianism listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, was considered the longest English word for quite a long time, but today the medical term pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is usually considered to have the title, despite the fact that it was coined to provide an answer to the question �What is the longest English word?�. [b]9.[/b] �Dreamt� is the only English word that ends in the letters �mt�. [b]8.[/b] There are many words that feature all five regular vowels in alphabetical order, the commonest being abstemious, adventitious, facetious. [b]7.[/b] The superlatively long word honorificabilitudinitatibus (27 letters) alternates consonants and vowels. [b]6.[/b] �Fickleheaded� and �fiddledeedee� are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet. [url=http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words1b-1.jpg][img]http://listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/words1b-1-tm.jpg[/img][/url] [b]5.[/b] The two longest words with only one of the six vowels including y are the 15-letter defenselessness and respectlessness. [b]4.[/b] �Forty� is the only number which has its letters in alphabetical order. �One� is the only number with its letters in reverse alphabetical order. [b]3.[/b] Bookkeeper is the only word that has three consecutive doubled letters. [b]2.[/b] Despite the assertions of a well-known puzzle, modern English does not have three common words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are the only ones. [b]1.[/b] �Ough� can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: �A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.