Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan/Words beginning with double hyphen
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Twenty-seven (27) entries starting with the double hyphen (--) are found in the Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan (MoeDict), which uses the TL romanization. In MTL, these words begin with the backquote. Here is a list of those words (PDF), converted to MTL with English definition added. Most (23) of these words are single syllable (monosyllables), and of those, 18 use substitute characters and two are homonyms.