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Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
There are six words in the English language which have the letter combination of "UU". One of the words is 'Vacuum', can you name the other five?
Answer
Muumuu, Continuum, Duumvirate, Duumvir, Residuum, Vacuum
Muumuu - A long loose dress that hangs free from the shoulders
Continuum - A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division
Duumvirate - A regime or partnership of two persons
Duumvir - A member of a duumvirate
Residuum - Something remaining after removal of a part; a residue
Vacuum - A state of being sealed off from external
or environmental influences; isolation
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I_am_the_Omega  
Nov 16, 2004
| Lol.. never heard of any but continuum, and never would've though of it.
What I did think of, were those six elements on the Periodic Table which have Uu as their first two letters :-) |
AXTON  
Nov 17, 2004
| thats funny, being a chemistry nut myself, thats where the idea came from  |
snaps 
Nov 17, 2004
| I'm guessing you're only after root words, because you could have vacuums, vacuuming and vacuumed.  |
AXTON
Nov 17, 2004
| yeah, root ords only |
MrIxolite
Nov 17, 2004
| I still maintain that it would have been nice to have the definitions of the words in the answer. Apart from Vacuum I haven't a clue as to the others. Always ready to be educated though, i'll go and look them up |
gnosys
Nov 20, 2004
| revacuum
unvacuum
devacuum
exvacuum
disvacuum
muumuuistical
muumuuriffic
muumuumatic
demuumuuification
Muumuumerica
"Call me muumuuistical if you like, but I think it's muumuuriffic that they've begun installing muumuumatics in many malls and airports. Looks like we won't be seeing the demuumuuification of Muumuumerica anytime soon!"
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AXTON
Nov 20, 2004
| please read other comments first. Root words only please |
eyecue
Nov 22, 2004
| cool, you put a lot of thought into it. Words with a double u (no pun intended for the "w"hats of the "w"orld), it never dawned on me to ponder the thought. That's the whole point of this site.  |
horse_luver 
Dec 06, 2004
| I got continuum, never heard of the others. Good teaser! |
haldir
Sep 01, 2005
| The first word I thought of was uuh... |
solarsistim321
Feb 17, 2006
| i had no idea, i would never had guessed any of 'em, except MAYBE vacuum. But good one! you even did some research! |
kulomofojo
Feb 28, 2008
| lol such a good teaser i just knew muumuu and vacuum^^. |
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