an interesting challenge.

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Joshua Zeidner wrote:

> Ok wise guy...can you tell me all the english words that use the letter 'e'
> exactly threee times?  jmz

:)

$ cat /usr/share/dict/{pr,w}* | egrep -i '^[^e]*e[^e]*e[^e]*e[^e]*$' | \
  sort -u | wc -l
   20189

Includes some multi-word phrases, like:

Benkulen tea
Bermuda-lily disease
Dartmouth college case
yew green
zebra parakeet

And a bunch of words like Echinosphaeritidae, Juniperaceae and more.

 Jeremy C. Reed