[net.nlang] words that can be typed with one

dinitz@uicsl.UUCP (09/22/83)

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uicsl!dinitz    Sep 21 14:13:00 1983

Re: request for words of more than six letters
that can be typed with only the right hand:

monopoly
polyphony
non-junky
non-lumpy
non-oily
polonium
million
nonillion
opinion
hoi-polloi
holmium
homonym
homophyly
houyhnhnm
homophony
phonily
pillion
plumply
Johnny-jump-up
killjoy
lollipop
lupulin
minikin
minimum
mullion


Here are some words in which there is a sequence
of letters longer than six, which use only the
right hand (i.e. those in caps):

UNILLUMINated
MONONOMIal
UNPHILOsophic
PHILOLOgy
IMMUNOLOgy
POPULOUs
KILOLIter
LILLIPUt
LIMNOLOgy
LIPOPHILIc
LOOPHOLe
LUMINOUs
LYMPHOPOIesis
LYOPHILIc
MILLILIter
MONOLINgual
MONOPHYsite
OMNIPOLItical


[Aren't dictionaies wonderful?]



There are many who would say that the following
are not "real words," but I can't resist
including them (since they use only the right
hand).  The meanings are my own inventions.

hypoluminonomy -- practice of studying in a dimly lit office
polyplinkophony -- sound made by throwing a handful of beans into a bathtub
polylollipop -- a directed tree with a sucking candy a each leaf



--Rick Dinitz