bludgeon
Adenoid
Anechoic
Bombastic
Cannonical
Conniption
Contrapuntal
Indigenous
Lancastershire (because it’s not pronounced even close to how it’s spelled)
Plenum
Uvula
My SO contributes: “discombobulated”
Shuriken
“No you can’t!”
“Shuriken!”
I remember seeing this list on Letterman, but I didn’t realize it was 10 years ago. I found it archived here.
—> January 5, 1994 <—
Top Ten Words That Sound Great When Spoken By James Earl Jones
As read by James Earl Jones himself!
- Mellifluous
- Verisimilitude
- Guppy
- Stolichnaya
- Boutros-Boutros Ghali
- Neo-Synephrine
- Pinhead
- Mujibur and Sirajul
- Heebie-Jeebies
- Oprah
tintinabulation
spiffy
and I’m sorry, but fuck is just too short, too abrupt - it’s like the sound of chucking a rock at a rusty corrugated iron wall - you have to add it to something, like
fuckitall
that’s the sound of release, there: fuckitall
Ganglion, as in cysts.
Mojave
Bacillus subtilus
Aurora borealis