# Words that are fun to say **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 25, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997 "2004-09-25T03:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/41 "2004-09-25T16:29:53Z")
Wankel :sniggers: ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/42 "2004-09-25T16:41:58Z")
Mitsubishi Homogenous Milieu ---
**Author:** ![seosamh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@seosamh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seosamh)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/43 "2004-09-25T17:19:27Z")
Botulism ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/44 "2004-09-25T17:46:03Z")
Serendipity ---
**Author:** ![cogitator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9c0ed/32.png) [@cogitator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cogitator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/45 "2004-09-25T18:07:37Z")
> [@Shirt Ninja 13](#): > > Does anyone have any words that they just enjoy saying, for whatever reason? **ointment** : oooiiiiiinnnntment **moist** : mmmmmmoiiiiii st **tincture** : TINK!~sure ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/46 "2004-09-25T19:36:38Z")
Rectify in a cool james earl jones voice ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/47 "2004-09-25T19:48:10Z")
::in a Bela Lugosi voice:: Frankaboli! (Italian for ‘postage stamps’) Terpsichorean Sesquipedalian Octagenarian Bullshit! (like George Carlin says it) ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/48 "2004-09-25T20:09:51Z")
**sibilance** - but you gotta drawl it and repeat it like you are checking a michrophone before a rock show. **cunnilingus** - has anyone mentioned this? Come on you know you love it! ( **Colonel Angus** also works.) ohh ya, for some reason I have always loved the word **sentient** … ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/49 "2004-09-25T20:31:58Z")
spoken quickly with a British accent- “A charitable institution in Hartfordshire” (thanks to Stephen Fry). ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/50 "2004-09-25T20:39:52Z")
This thread makes me think of my high school speech teacher. She was about 400 lbs., shopped exclusively on QVC, and had painted on eyebrows that were not always in the same place. Anyway, her favorite word was lugubrious because, “It just feels so good to say. Lugubrious: it just rolls off the tongue. Lugubrious, lugubrious, everyone say it with me…lugubrious.” I hear that word now and cringe. Personally, my favorite word is wooly. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/51 "2004-09-25T20:40:19Z")
Wankle rotory engine. I know, I know, it’s a _phrase_, not a word … ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/52 "2004-09-25T20:48:45Z")
Bellicose. I get a mental picture of some great big Santa-Clause-sized guy yelling at people. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/53 "2004-09-25T20:59:48Z")
stentorian. There is no such word as verocative. But there should be. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/54 "2004-09-25T21:51:48Z")
**quintessential** **modicum** **umlaut** Whee! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/55 "2004-09-25T22:03:33Z")
Praseodymium. Lolita Davidovich (okay, two words, but HH _did_ think Lolita was euphonious.) Liechtenstein. ---
**Author:** ![Burrido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/56 "2004-09-26T00:00:40Z")
Daquiri Solilique (have no idea if that’s spelled correctly) ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/57 "2004-09-26T00:09:41Z")
obstreperous audacious voluptuous verdant floofy fanatic I love words! ---
**Author:** ![violacrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@violacrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/violacrane)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/58 "2004-09-26T00:12:38Z")
peripatetic piquant picaresque and that’s only the **P** s ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/59 "2004-09-26T00:31:01Z")
Rumspringa. Rumspringahhhhhh. But you have to make sure to get the odd “spfringah” sound in there to get the full effect. It’s like the vocal equivilent of a Slinky. ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997/60 "2004-09-26T00:43:53Z")
> [@Punoqllads](#): > > Smock. Smock smock smock smock smock. You and Hobbes… * * * I like to rhyme fajita with vagina. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-fun-to-say/265997.md?page=4)