khaki
buoy
Cockpit
Manhole
Turbid
What about Fuking, Australia-pronounced Fooking?
bucolic
Volvo
funk
fletch
boggle
As much as us Aussies would love to lay claim to that one, I’m afraid we can’t. I think it’s in Austria. We have to make do with naughty placenames like Wangaratta, Balls Head, Burrumbuttock, and Iron Knob. We get our fun whereever we can.
Dongle.
President Bush
happiness.
fallacious
schism
afflatus
dentalia
Ooooooo, oooooooo, pick me! pick me! (waving hand frantically)
defenestrate
teetotaler
pilologist
onomatopoeia
susurrus/susurration
smegma – oh wait, that is dirty, well maybe not dirty but at least nasty!
hoary
succulent
BaaaAAAAAAAaaaallllzaaaac!
Pu Pu Platter
bilabial fricative
My daughter’s pediatrician, Dr. Pabenga. “I can’t say his name Mommy, it’s not nice.”
I think he was Dutch.
Let’s not forget Lake Titicaca.
I didn’t see these here but they may well be:
Ballcocks
Homo sapian
Joy stick
Matriculate
I once heard that a southern politician (Birch Byah?) was running for office early in his political career and his opponent started the whispering campaign about him that said, he was a practicing homo sapian who had matriculated in college and had a sister who was a known thespian.
The politician was defeated.
TV
I am looking into moving to Virginia (wow, THAT would work as an almost bad word), but heard that they had income taxes. Sure enough upon researching it I came upon a website which had a Virginia tax form. Analogous to the american Adjusted Gross Income, you have to calculate the Virginia Adjusted Gross Income.
The acronym of course is VAGI.
I was gonna say Balzac. It’s the name of a town near Calgary.
Jackscrew
Ballscrew
Bunghole (already mentioned)
Thrust relief piston
Strain-hardening
and my all-time favorite, the tensile-test phenomenon known as…
elongation after necking
Oh, and does it bother anyone else how they refer to parts that slide into other parts as “male” and the parts slid into as “female”? Gives you some insight into the engineering mentality.