Words with (a, e, i, o, u) appear in order
abstemious   abstemiously   abstentious   acheilous   acheirous   acleistous  
affectious   annelidous   arsenious   arterious   bacterious   caesious  
facetious   facetiously   fracedinous   majestious  

Words without (a, e, i, o, u)
by     crwth     cry     cwm     fly     hymn    
lymph     lynch     lynx     my     myrrh     myth    
nymph     ply     pry     pygmy     pyx     rhythm    
shy     sky     sly     spy     sty     sylph    
sync     syzygy     try     why    

Some long words
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (Welsh)
floccinaucinihilipilification
antidisestablishmentarianism
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Scientific counts
prefix   name     power of ten  
y   yocto     -24  
z   zepto     -21  
a   atto     -18  
f   femto     -15  
p   pico     -12  
n   nano     -9  
(mu)   micro     -6  
m   milli     -3  
c   centi     -2   depreciated  
d   deci     -1   depreciated  
da   deca     1   depreciated  
h   hecto     2   depreciated  
k   kilo     3  
M   mega     6  
G   giga     9  
T   tera     12  
P   peta     15  
E   exa     18  
Z   zetta     21  
Y   yotta     24  


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