Good Words for Hangman

Prix
assiduous
altenuate
hisute
waggish
antideluvian
cuspida
strident
reprobate
sirocco
pith
cavalier
turbid
osculate
node
concatenate
paginate
abscissa
ordinate
adze
trestle
pallet
dregs
hiatus
flail
maw
apt
potentate
aliphatic
asp
hasp
aghast
nigh
paradigm
candela
umbra
penumbra
lumen
watt
steradian
radius
flux
lux
per

the way to do this is 1) choose words that don't have RSTLN E (hi wheel of fortune!)
2) choose words that have those words but are so OBSCURE that no one believes them.

Man, Raistlin is so screwed.

Facetious with a suffix.

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Man, Raistlin is so screwed.

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Quin stole my reply.

Helix might be a good one. As might Zeitgeist if we'll allow words borrowed from other languages, because lots of people wouldn't think of that.

Let's high five with our minds.

also I can't believe I got the consonants from WoF right and in the right order

pulchritudinous

You forgot Saddam.

Laugh out loud.

Sesquipedalian YAY

so i guess supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is out then.... :\

Any word with a Q or a Z.

What about for naughty sexual hangman?

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What about for naughty sexual hangman?

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The best kind. :bigsmile:

Nagger.

However if people tend to guess 'A' before 'I' (and they do), the joke is lost.

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pulchritudinous

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Lol... Akeelah and the Bee?

Um... how about synectoche? Or onomatopoeia?

Queue?

Sure, they'd get the e pretty fast, but they'd probably look for consonants after that.

I always win with oyster. Nobody guesses y.

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Queue?

Sure, they'd get the e pretty fast, but they'd probably look for consonants after that.

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Good one :)

allouette.... which mean lark i think in french. *sings* allouette, gentille allouette. allouette, je te plumerais!

antidisestablishmentarianism

brouhaha

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antidisestablishmentarianism

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our instructor pulled a french equivilent of this on us today.
anticonstitutionnellement

I know a few good ones like Anecdote, Alabama, and Allegretto. They all start with A: this is just a coincidence.

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I know a few good ones like Anecdote, Alabama, and Allegretto. They all start with A: this is just a coincidence.

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ooh, while we're talking music, let's have some adagio

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Queue?

Sure, they'd get the e pretty fast, but they'd probably look for consonants after that.

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Yeah :)

any word that doesn't have a lot of vowels, cause everyone guessed vowels first.

oh yeah!

cwm

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oh yeah!

cwm

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Welsh is literally as far from valid as can be

quark!

Use a letter that is rarely used in English like "ç" or "é" in the words "façade" and "protégé."

Then argue that they are different letters than "c" and "e."

You can also use Canadian or British spellings, or conversely if you ARE Canadian or British, use the American spelling.

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oh yeah!

cwm

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Welsh is literally as far from valid as can be

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They use it in the book 'Into Thin Air' so it's fair game.

paraskavedekatriaphobia!

I always do all the vowels first, unless it's clear that there are no more vowels to be had. So queue wouldn't work on me. :(

well, there's an e in the middle and the end, so they'd probably think 'oh hey we got all the vowels on the first try' then go on to fail at consonants.

that is, everyone except you.

I know, I ruin everybodys fun.

Slartibartfast. Only problem is you need to know to spell it.

are proper nouns even allowed?

Who cares, but I don't think so.

Rakish. It's really, really funny when they don't get the k.