>>>Ah, now I see you meant "done by dropping vowels ONLY". For a moment there I thought that either the first or second e didn't count, and since I've already had some situations where I didn't quite get the official English phonetics (what qualifies as a vowel, what as a diphthong and what as a consonant), I thought this may be a good time to gain some insight into the matter.
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>>Not from me, you won't. ;)
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>Never mind, found it (thanks, Tracy - message #1141080): http://www.worldwidewords.org/pronguide.htm also has the sounds neatly grouped just like I wanted to see them.

Neat url. I just checked their weird words. Guess what I saw there... "infundibulum"!!! But, alas, no 'chronosynclastic'.