Those thespians are always masticating!

I thought it would be fun for people to post their favorite "not-actually-dirty" words.

I said I was masticating on the phone once to my brother and he freaked out! ha ha ha!

"Your epidermis is showing!!!"

-guffaw-

Uvula

Gherkin

Disinsemination

Uranus (sorry, couldn't resist!)

Volvo, like the car. I always think of "vulva"

Duty.  As in, "Do your duty."  I always giggle a little.

lake Titicaca

the Cossacks 

gesticulate

kumquat

PS. When I read this title, I thought for sure you were going to talk about craft service or catering backstage/onset. LOL.

ice hole

bass-ackwards

Richard Cranium

Homosapian

Invagination

Gonads

Bullock

I don't know why, but the word moist bothers me. It just gives me the creeps.

Original Post by rufus_k:

Acute angina

 i can't stop laughing!

mass debating.

In highschool me and a lot of my friends used to sit around in a circle at lunchtime and we'd have these really interesting discussions which always turned into debates and if people walked past and asked us what we were doing we'd tell them we were mass debating. We got some weird looks :/

condiments.

when i first learned the word, i told my mom we needed more  condiments. she did a double-take and said, "what did you say!?!"

Cumin.  It makes me chuckle.