I have a friend hosting a spelling bee soon, and this is the theme. Any suggestions?
My favorite is the German word “verflucht” (damned, cursed). That won’t help your friend’s spelling bee much.
One of my favorite usual suggestions: “kumquat”
It’s “cumquat” here.
I think almost any word said while raising the eyebrows could be construed to be a dirty word.
conurbation
contumelious
contumacious
coney (variant cony)
contingence
contrabandistist
contumacy
don’t make me go through the whole dictionary. (he he, he said dictionary.)
matriculation
mastication
vomitoria
Just out of my head:
formicate
thespian
absquatulate
quincunx
invagination
flocculate
seminal
shih-tzu
cumingtonite
pistil
infundibulum
arsenic
schist
It’s not a pretty place in there …
Wankel
Maybe I’m the only one who thinks this sounds dirty, but:
defenestrate
Moist
Uxorious
Joculate
Execrate
Ballcock
Aw, go throw yourself through a window.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to masticate with my Wankel rotary engine.
cunctator
acephalic - headless
aprosexia - an abnormal inability to pay attention
cocum - correct, proper
crapulous - drunk, tending to indulge in alcohol
flapdoodle - a showy object of little value
godown - a warehouse or storeroom (SE Asia)
jactation - The restless tossing and twitching of a seriously ill person
smew - a small duck found in N Europe and Asia
turdiform - resembling a thrush
undergrope - to learn; to understand
whangdoodle - an imaginary creature from a Roald Dahl book
… all these words can be found in that wonderful book >> Foyle’s Philavery …
WoAus who revels in pogonotrophy
FWIW, here’s what two guys, a few drop-ins, and a case of beer came up with.
As we remarked many times: “Wait. That’s not really dirty, but it sounds like it should be.”
Defrock
Fracas
Coccyx
Pedantry
Fromage
Importune
Succulent
Obfuscate
Dictaphone
Cuneiform
Pneumococcus
Titillate
Crepitate
Comestible
Puissant
Meniscus
Chitin
Remonstrate
Refulgent
Spelunker
Crappie
Truculent
Tumescent
Bilingual
Comely
Gluteal
Buttress
Diurnal
Cockle
Harass
Boning
Bucolic
Proselytize
Overblown
Vermicious
Rectify
Contumacious
Pediculus
Reticulate
Rampant
Boisterous
Exsuccous
Exude
Extrapolate
Intromission
Vestibular
Mingling
Foramen
Pronate
Propitiate
Propend
Declension
Inflect
Flexion
Subrogate
Funiculus
Frangible
Fundament
Ponce
Appurtenance
Appendage
Scrofulous
Tangible
Trepid
Conflagrate
Corpulent
Crepuscular
Tractable
Palpate
Truncate
Propitiate
Proffer
Abrogate
Puberal
Penectomy
Fallacious
Lingam
Lingua franca
Pluralize
Vernacular
Purpure
Promulgate
Propitiate
Conciliate
Pestle
Pungent
Vagile
Invacuate
Invaginate
Prehensile
Intubate
Ruminate
Reticulate
Pudendal
Prolapse
Coruscate
Scintillate
Prepuce
Cretaceous
Glabella
Mandibular
Mendacity
Propitiate
Conciliate
Placatory
Mollify
Cuniculus
Littoral
Frenulum
Priapic
Elucidate
Explicate
Disambiguate
harbingering
homunculus
manikin
homologize
homologous
ipsilateral
homodyne
turmeric
homophene
philatelist
homophone
promulgate
nacreous
macerater
osculator
obviate
Culminate
corpectomy
crenulate
rapacious
rapt
fungate
unctuous
fixate
Fluctuate
hornist
gesticulate
phrenic
dingus
frammis
geegaw
uvula
strabismus
nodule
modulate
mensural
exacerbate
ovule
integument
frenetic
harried
horticulturist
sebaceous
protuberant
fecund
feculent
extubate
turbidity
turbinate
torpor
whorl
mucosal
languorous
sensate
testicular
seminal
tubule
Translingual
polemic
ambulate
ablute
fenestration
fricative
affricate
sibilance
plosive
trenchancy
trochee
inchoate
confabulate
speciate
caudal
peduncle
cockerel
venerator
enervator
flocculent
morphant
furl
portcullis
fulminate
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