Flocculant

[EYESORE 9001]

Post your words that sound dirty but really aren’t.

[rog]

1. refulgent

Actually, radiant - one of my favorite words!

.rog.

[SarahD]

2. Penumbra.

Part of a shadow.

[hlthe2b]

3. Moist

Simple little word and whether or not it sounds "dirty" it always sounds like... ewwww.

[captain queeg]

4. Don't remember what the process was but in sewage treatment

There was a chamber with flocualators. Or maybe it was de-floculators.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Fungible

Money is fungible, artwork is not.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Crepuscular

Associated with twilight, as in crepuscular rays at sunset, and crepuscular animals that are active around sunset and sunrise. Nothing to do with crap.

[2naSalit]

9. I used to use that word a lot...

In my park ranger talks about some of the wildlife who are crepuscular.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Effulgent {on edit: rog was first above with word with same root}. . . . nt

[megapuzzler]

8. nincompoop

means a foolish person, but, you know, "poop." My son got sent to the principal's office in third grade for calling a classmate a "nincompoop." It was definitely the "poop" part that got him in trouble.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Poop deck

In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or "aft", part of the superstructure of a ship. The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, from Latin puppis. Thus the poop deck is technically a stern deck, which in sailing ships was usually elevated as the roof of the stern or "after" cabin, also known as the "poop cabin". On sailing ships, the helmsman would steer the craft from the quarterdeck, immediately in front of the poop deck. At the stern, the poop deck provides an elevated position ideal for observation.

[debm55]

16. Hahahaha /your right

[hlthe2b]

10. 'Disengorgement' (Katy Phang's favorite word right now as MSNBC commentator/lawyer)

Its meaning in that sense:

Disgorgement is the legally mandated repayment of ill-gotten gains imposed on wrongdoers by the courts. Funds that were received through illegal or ...

[MiHale]

11. Much...sounds like something you don't want to step in...

and if you do that’s the sound it makes …especially when you pull your foot out of a pile of it.

[Wonder Why]

12. in the '50s according to my mom, one Southern politician accused his

opponent of being a Thespian.

[Midnight Writer]

14. Hope Moms for Liberty aren't reading this. It may give them ideas of what to ban next.

[SarahD]

15. Dangling participle.

A type of grammar error.

[JoseBalow]

17. Rectory

[CTyankee]

18. Bulge and titter

As in "the word bulge makes me titter."