The phrase "acceptable words" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing language, communication, or standards for what is considered appropriate or suitable in a given context.
Example: "In this formal report, we must ensure that we only use acceptable words to maintain professionalism."
Alternatives: "appropriate language" or "suitable terms".
Over the years, many old-fashioned and offensive terms to describe disabled people have been replaced with more acceptable words.
Afterwards Giles, grim and gritting his teeth, in stark contrast to his smiling demeanour of the previous day, searched for acceptable words to describe England's horror show.
In the past, "society" or "antiquarian" or "athenaeum" were perfectly acceptable words to the men and women who founded and financially supported such endeavors.
But its principal targets are the legions of perfectly acceptable words that should not appear more than once in a piece of writing—"legions," in the numerical sense, among them, and words like "expunges," "circumvallate," "horripilation," "disjunct," "defunct," "amalgamate," "ameliorate," "defecate," and a few thousand others.
Perhaps exhausted by the struggle to contain her wildness under a mantle of good behaviour and acceptable words, by the end of her long life, Dorothy had become the mad woman in the attic, so terrifying to visitors that she had to be kept hidden away.
One interesting thing about this discussion is how stable, in a sense, the N-word has been throughout American history, while the more acceptable words for describing race in America always seem to be changing: "colored," "Negro," "black," "African-American," "people of color".
Nationalisation is not an acceptable word in Whitehall because the Treasury is determined that funding for the railways should not be regarded as public borrowing.
The regulator said it is not acceptable to swear on TV before the watershed, but rates the word "b*****ks" as a "higher acceptable" word in its own research.
Ireland has warned there will be no Brexit withdrawal treaty and no transition agreement unless Britain comes up with acceptable wording as a "backstop" solution to the Irish border question in the event of no deal.
I must apologize straight away for ALKALIN, which is certainly not in Chambers, and is only justifiable as a bona fide word from its appearance in the OED as an obsolete 17th-century alternative spelling, and from the fact that, according to the Internet, it is an acceptable word in ®Scrabble – I've no idea why.
The knife-edge "meaningful vote" vote (as it were) was won only after May promised Tory rebels to agree a mutually acceptable wording for "part c" of former attorney general Dominic Grieve's amendment, which proposed allowing MPs to "direct the government" if no deal is reached by February.
