# Words that just sound funny. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572 "2012-02-12T01:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/21 "2012-02-13T04:42:37Z")
onomatopoeia mellifluous vagina And “sagittarius” makes me laugh. What a dumb word! ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/22 "2012-02-13T05:29:51Z")
Caterwauling. Parsimonious. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/23 "2012-02-13T05:36:02Z")
uvula ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/24 "2012-02-13T10:45:57Z")
matriculation. insalubrious (The name of one of Caesar’s bodyguards in an Asterix comic) (Actually, this one’s downright poetic.) masturbate, inculcate, depilatory, self-actualization, palindrome. Practically every multi-syllable word on the data sheet that you sometimes get with your prescription meds. Along those same lines: **Argent T.** mentions thrombosis. In high school science we had to memorize the step-by-step process of blood clot formation. It involved about a dozen steps including many long words beginning with thrombo-this and thrombo-that. “moot” mentioned by **figure9** – This is what a cow X owl (cowl) says. The entire French vocabulary. Did somebody say sanctimonious yet? ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/25 "2012-02-13T10:48:19Z")
Copacetic. Its purely American in usage so far as I can tell, didn’t even come across it until a few years ago. I do like it. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/26 "2012-02-13T10:52:23Z")
Moot. Cumquat ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/27 "2012-02-13T10:52:39Z")
docent (when properly pronounced, with the accent on the last syllable) ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/28 "2012-02-13T10:55:33Z")
Salpynx. Urticate. Flensing. Glomerulus. ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/29 "2012-02-13T12:00:09Z")
defenestration ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/30 "2012-02-13T12:39:59Z")
Wombat. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/31 "2012-02-13T13:51:22Z")
Nosegay Ullage Garbanzo Immanent (as opposed to Imminent) Retromingent (look that one up!) Abecedarian ---
**Author:** ![prodicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d9b06d/32.png) [@prodicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/prodicus)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/32 "2012-02-13T15:00:03Z")
Pants ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/33 "2012-02-13T15:26:21Z")
Bungalow. Banana. Balloon. Bobble. Anemone. Phenomenon. It seems to be mostly words beginning with B or that can be sung to the Muppets theme tune. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/34 "2012-02-13T15:50:36Z")
Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/35 "2012-02-13T16:23:07Z")
There’s a technical term that I see in reports at my work: “Flocculate.” I always giggle. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/36 "2012-02-13T16:35:12Z")
Syllable seems three times too long to me. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/37 "2012-02-13T16:49:15Z")
Weiner. Weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner weiner ---
**Author:** ![Jumpbass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jumpbass/32/147_2.png) [@Jumpbass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jumpbass)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/38 "2012-02-13T17:24:30Z")
Ha! I was just thinking about this the other day. I give you The Vestibules: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cMfmzEpvW-g/hqdefault.jpg "Dr Demento- Bulbous Bouffant") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfmzEpvW-g) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/39 "2012-02-13T17:36:13Z")
> [@Teufelblitz](#): > > defenestration Yeah, but how often do you get to say it? OK, you can say it today. Apparently a local man defenestrated his wife. Fallopian Yet ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-just-sound-funny/612572/40 "2012-02-13T17:43:45Z")
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