By cheating, we get the following list of, uh, words with four or more vowels in a row (not counting y):
- Achromobacterieae
- Acrasieae
- Aeaean
- Aissaoua
- amidoguaiacol
- Amoebobacterieae
- Andreaea
- Andreaeaceae
- Andreaeales
- Aouellimiden
- aqueoigneous
- aqueous
- aqueously
- aqueousness
- Arioian
- Asclepieion
- Asplenieae
- Azotobacterieae
- Bacillarieae
- beauish
- beauism
- blandiloquious
- Brodiaea
- cadiueio
- Chaouia
- Chromobacterieae
- chrysopoeia
- chylaqueous
- chymaqueous
- Codiaeum
- cooee
- Coueism
- cypraeoid
- egueiite
- epopoeia
- ethopoeia
- euouae
- exsanguious
- geoaesthesia
- glacioaqueous
- glaieul
- gooier
- gooiest
- Graeae
- guaiac
- guaiacol
- guaiacolize
- guaiaconic
- guaiacum
- guaiaretic
- guaiasanol
- guaiol
- Guauaenok
- Haliaeetus
- Hawaiian
- heiau
- Heliaea
- heliaean
- heuau
- homoeoarchy
- homoiousia
- Homoiousian
- homoiousian
- Homoiousianism
- homoiousious
- hypoaeolian
- hypophloeous
- igneoaqueous
- inaqueous
- Iroquoian
- Jussiaea
- Jussiaean
- Jussieuan
- Kalapooian
- kioea
- lauia
- leguleious
- lernaeoid
- Lernaeoides
- lieue
- Louie
- maieutic
- maieutical
- maieutics
- maioid
- Maioidea
- maioidean
- melopoeia
- multiloquious
- Neisserieae
- Nitrobacterieae
- nonaqueous
- obloquious
- obsequious
- obsequiously
- obsequiousness
- Olympieion
- onomatopoeia
- onomatopoeial
- onomatopoeian
- overobsequious
- overobsequiously
- overobsequiousness
- Palaeeudyptes
- palaeoalchemical
- palaeoanthropic
- palaeoanthropography
- palaeoanthropology
- Palaeoanthropus
- palaeoatavism
- palaeoatavistic
- palaeoencephalon
- palaeoeremology
- palaeoethnic
- palaeoethnologic
- palaeoethnological
- palaeoethnologist
- palaeoethnology
- Pareoean
- pathopoeia
- peaiism
- Peridinieae
- pharmacopoeia
- pharmacopoeial
- pharmacopoeian
- plateaued
- plateauing
- polyphloisboioism
- Propionibacterieae
- prosopopoeia
- prosopopoeial
- pyroguaiacin
- queue
- radioautograph
- radioautographic
- radioautography
- Raiae
- raioid
- reliquiae
- rhythmopoeia
- Rousseauan
- Rousseauism
- Rousseauist
- Rousseauistic
- Rousseauite
- Saurauia
- Saurauiaceae
- scarabaeoid
- Sequoia
- Siouan
- sodioaurous
- stultiloquious
- subaqueous
- subteraqueous
- subterraqueous
- superaqueous
- teioid
- tenuious
- terraqueous
- terraqueousness
- tonneaued
- ubiquious
- Ueueteotl
- unbeaued
- unobsequious
- unobsequiously
- unobsequiousness
- unportmanteaued
- Vernonieae
- visuoauditory
While we're on the subject, no vowels (again, not counting y):
- cwm
- grr, brr
- Mrs.
- nth
- pst
- tch, tck, tst
Six or more consonants in a row (again, leaving out y, which isn't really fair):
- archchronicler
- bergschrund
- catchphrase
- Eschscholtzia
- fruchtschiefer
- latchstring
- lengthsman
- Nachschlag
- postphthisic
- veldtschoen
- watchstrap
- Weltschmerz
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