Words that when you hear them you

[slowmotion]

Pert

 

[amnesia]

gusset and flange for me too...

I used to amuse myself on boring afternoons by doing a flange count on ebay - some people use the word to describe the most mundane of objects.

 

[BrumJim]

Flaccid

 

[weevil]

hasp (with a cockney dropped 'h')

fracas (in which I prefer to pronounce the 's')

gesticulate

ignominious

spatula

doily

Not a real word, I know, but I do like "testiculate", meaning to wave one's arms around whilst talking b****cks.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Chortle
Trundle
Sausages

 

[Armegatron]

Chortle
Trundle
Sausages

The mrs hates me saying Chortle

 

[BrumJim]

Less smutily, Tepid. Has such negative connotations, but is a genuine technical descriptive word.

Was reading a technical document the other day. Vehicles were due to be kept in one of four states of storage. Hot storage is where they get a weekly in-service run-out. Cold storage is where they get stuck in a shed and forgotten. In between these were two other states, one called warm, and the fourth called tepid. Loved it. Sadly we didn't get the validation work for this one.

 

[Cranky]

Chortle
Trundle
Sausages

Guffaw (or "Guffive" in some circles).

 

[Cranky]

Ophicleide

Blimp

Gigolo

 

[Kirstie]

I have so many favourite words that I don't know where to start:
Moke
Elbow
Plimsole
Fibula
Flacid
Trinket
...Are all fine words

But by far and away my favourite *phrase* is

'Remanded in custody'

 

[slowmotion]

Snigger.

 

[addictfreak]

copulate

 

[Cranky]

Flatulence

Bumptious

Bassoon