Words that roll off the tongue

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What are words or phrases that you feel just roll off the tongue (figuratively)? We all know words that just feel pleasant and satisfying to say just because of how they sound, how it feels to say them, and how those relate to what they mean.

I study language, and I am curious: What are words that you think roll off one's tongue?
Of course, this is extremely suggestive, so I don't know how much agreement there will be, but here are some of mine:

licorice
august
coincidence
haberdasher
phenomenon
cogent

Winona Ryder

Dortmunder Union ( a brand of German beer that used to be imported into the US).

high chaparral (pronounced 'shap -er-rell' rhymes with 'bell').

I guess you have to hear someone say it right -to know how cool the phrase sounds. Its the word for a particular biome in the American mountain west- sage brush-no trees. But evokes ...the wild west. It was used as the name of a Sixties cowboy western TV series.

Marlin Spike
A tool used by the sailors of old, on sailing ships.

Catherine
eloquent
rhapsody
meow

l'orange
liaison
mierda
shinola

tout le monde
voulez-vous
l'infinitif

pété
petard
flapdoodle
onomatopoeia

silhouette
ballet
willow

slender
perro [rolled Rs]
slickery

as long as we're including foreign languages:

German:
zart (tender, soft)
angenehm (comfortable, agreeable)
zerschlitzen (slash, shred)
kennenlernen (to get to know)
glücklicherweise (fortunately)
Karabiner achtundneunzig kurz (Kar98k rifle)

Russian:
сосе́дка - 'sosyedka' (neighbor, fem.)
доброе - 'dobroye' (great)
вкусно - 'vkusno' (delicious)

Shenanigans
Hootenanny
Smithereens
Hornswaggle
Consternation
Addle
Insidious
Tarnation
B*ll*cks
Boatswain

elysian
enchantée
soliloquy
winnebago

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик [Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik] = USSR

somersault

sauerkraut

Scallywag
Vintner
Nestorian
Itinerant