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10-letter words with C as the 9th letter

A curated list of 10-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when C is fixed in the 9th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abhorrence, absorbance, absorbancy.

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447 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abhorrence	10	3
absorbance	10	3
absorbancy	10	4
absorbency	10	4
abstinence	10	3
acceptance	10	3
accomplice	10	3
accordance	10	3
acrobatics	10	4
admittance	10	3
advertence	10	3
advertency	10	4
aerobatics	10	4
aesthetics	10	3
affirmance	10	3
afterpiece	10	3
aftershock	10	3
alcoholics	10	4
allegiance	10	3
alpenstock	10	3
altarpiece	10	3
amphibrach	10	3
analeptics	10	4
analgesics	10	4
analgetics	10	4
anapestics	10	4
anorectics	10	4
antichurch	10	3
antihijack	10	4
antipiracy	10	5
antipolice	10	4
appearance	10	3
applesauce	10	3
apprentice	10	3
arthritics	10	3
articulacy	10	5
ascendance	10	3
ascendancy	10	4
ascendence	10	3
ascendency	10	4
assistance	10	3
asthmatics	10	3
ataractics	10	4
attendance	10	3
autodidact	10	4
automatics	10	4
backstitch	10	2
ballistics	10	3
bankruptcy	10	3
benignancy	10	4
bibliotics	10	3
biometrics	10	3
biophysics	10	3
bioscience	10	2
birthplace	10	2
bishoprics	10	3
bloodstock	10	2
bottleneck	10	3
brilliance	10	2
brilliancy	10	3
broomstick	10	2
candlewick	10	3
cantatrice	10	3
cantatrici	10	4
canvasback	10	3
catatonics	10	4
cathartics	10	3
chaplaincy	10	3
charabancs	10	3
chatoyance	10	2
chatoyancy	10	3
chiromancy	10	4
choplogics	10	3
chromatics	10	3
cirrhotics	10	3
cladistics	10	3
cockatrice	10	3
cognizance	10	3
competence	10	3
competency	10	4
compliance	10	2
compliancy	10	3
complicacy	10	4
condolence	10	3
conference	10	3
confidence	10	3
confluence	10	2
congruence	10	2
congruency	10	3
connivance	10	3
conscience	10	2
consonance	10	3
consonancy	10	4
conspiracy	10	4
continence	10	3
contradict	10	3
convalesce	10	3
conveyance	10	2
cornerback	10	3
cornstarch	10	2
corpulence	10	3
corpulency	10	4
counteract	10	3
covariance	10	3
crackajack	10	3
crawlspace	10	2
crosshatch	10	2
crosspatch	10	2
crosspiece	10	2
cryogenics	10	3
cyberspace	10	3
cysticerci	10	4
czarevitch	10	3
deathwatch	10	2
defeasance	10	3
deficiency	10	4
degeneracy	10	5
dehiscence	10	3
deliquesce	10	3
dentifrice	10	3
dependance	10	3
dependence	10	3
dependency	10	4
desistance	10	3
detergency	10	4
deterrence	10	3
diacritics	10	3
dialectics	10	3
dicentrics	10	3
difference	10	3
diffidence	10	3
diplococci	10	4
directrice	10	3
disconnect	10	3
disrespect	10	3
disservice	10	3
dissidence	10	3
dissonance	10	3
divergence	10	3
divergency	10	4
divulgence	10	3
dumbstruck	10	2
dyspeptics	10	3
dysphasics	10	3
ebullience	10	3
ebulliency	10	4
eccentrics	10	3
effeminacy	10	5
effervesce	10	3
efficiency	10	4
effloresce	10	3
effulgence	10	3
egomaniacs	10	4
encaustics	10	3
energetics	10	4
epileptics	10	4
episcopacy	10	5
epizootics	10	4
ergonomics	10	4
eurythmics	10	3
everyplace	10	4
excellence	10	3
excellency	10	4
expectance	10	3
expectancy	10	4
expedience	10	3
expediency	10	4
experience	10	3
exuberance	10	4
fantastico	10	4
fantastics	10	3
fiddleback	10	3
fieldpiece	10	2
fingerpick	10	3
flatulence	10	3
flatulency	10	4
geometrics	10	3
geophysics	10	3
geoscience	10	2
geriatrics	10	3
governance	10	3
grandniece	10	2
graphemics	10	3
grapholect	10	3
greenfinch	10	2
gymnastics	10	3
hackmatack	10	3
hamantasch	10	3
hammerlock	10	3
hematinics	10	4
heresiarch	10	3
heuristics	10	3
homiletics	10	4
honeybunch	10	3
honorifics	10	4
hotchpotch	10	2
hydraulics	10	3
hydrocrack	10	3
hydromancy	10	4
hydrospace	10	3
hyperspace	10	3
illiteracy	10	5
immaculacy	10	5
immittance	10	3
immoderacy	10	5
impatience	10	3
importance	10	3
importancy	10	4
imprudence	10	3
inaccuracy	10	5
inadequacy	10	5
incandesce	10	3
incessancy	10	4
incipience	10	3
incipiency	10	4
inclemency	10	4
incumbency	10	4
incurrence	10	3
indelicacy	10	5
indistinct	10	3
inductance	10	3
indulgence	10	3
inefficacy	10	5
inelegance	10	4
innumeracy	10	5
insistence	10	3
insistency	10	4
insolvency	10	4
insomniacs	10	3
insurgence	10	3
insurgency	10	4
intendance	10	3
interspace	10	3
interstice	10	3
introspect	10	3
invariance	10	3
inveteracy	10	5
irradiance	10	3
isometrics	10	4
itinerancy	10	5
kinematics	10	4
knickknack	10	2
legitimacy	10	5
littleneck	10	3
lockstitch	10	2
logaoedics	10	3
luftmensch	10	2
lumberjack	10	3
luxuriance	10	3
lymphatics	10	3
macaronics	10	4
magistracy	10	4
malignance	10	3
malignancy	10	4
matchstick	10	2
mendicancy	10	4
metaethics	10	3
meterstick	10	3
micrococci	10	4
misbalance	10	3
misconduct	10	3
misconnect	10	3
monosomics	10	4
monstrance	10	2
moonstruck	10	2
morphemics	10	3
motortruck	10	3
mouthpiece	10	2
multipiece	10	3
multitrack	10	3
mydriatics	10	3
necromancy	10	4
negligence	10	3
neotropics	10	3
nephrotics	10	3
nightstick	10	2
noncontact	10	3
nonfluency	10	3
nonscience	10	2
nonsubject	10	3
nontobacco	10	4
nostalgics	10	3
nucleonics	10	3
nudibranch	10	3
nurturance	10	3
observance	10	3
obstetrics	10	3
occurrence	10	3
ochlocracy	10	4
onomastics	10	4
ordonnance	10	3
outbalance	10	3
outproduce	10	3
outstretch	10	2
overbleach	10	3
overdirect	10	4
overstruck	10	3
panegyrics	10	4
paralytics	10	4
paramedics	10	4
paranoiacs	10	3
paregorics	10	4
patristics	10	3
pedagogics	10	4
pediatrics	10	3
penetrance	10	3
permanence	10	3
permanency	10	4
pertinence	10	3
pertinency	10	4
pestilence	10	3
philippics	10	3
pilgarlics	10	3
pluperfect	10	3
plutocracy	10	4
postattack	10	3
postimpact	10	3
postlaunch	10	2
postulancy	10	4
pragmatics	10	3
precedence	10	3
precedency	10	4
precontact	10	3
preference	10	3
prefinance	10	3
prepotency	10	4
prescience	10	2
preservice	10	3
presidency	10	4
prevalence	10	3
proclitics	10	3
profligacy	10	4
prominence	10	3
provenance	10	3
providence	10	3
psoriatics	10	3
psychotics	10	3
pubescence	10	3
purtenance	10	3
purveyance	10	2
quadratics	10	3
quiescence	10	2
recommence	10	3
reconvince	10	3
recrudesce	10	3
recumbency	10	4
recurrence	10	3
redistrict	10	3
redundancy	10	4
reentrance	10	2
refulgence	10	3
regeneracy	10	5
reluctance	10	3
reluctancy	10	4
remittance	10	3
renascence	10	3
repellency	10	4
repentance	10	3
reprobance	10	3
repugnance	10	3
repugnancy	10	4
resentence	10	3
resilience	10	3
resiliency	10	4
resistance	10	3
resurgence	10	3
retrospect	10	3
rheumatics	10	3
rubberneck	10	3
sacrosanct	10	3
scapegrace	10	3
scaramouch	10	3
schematics	10	3
sclerotics	10	3
semeiotics	10	3
senescence	10	3
shankpiece	10	2
silicotics	10	4
silverback	10	3
slavocracy	10	4
smokestack	10	3
somnolence	10	3
soporifics	10	4
soundtrack	10	2
splenetics	10	3
stagecoach	10	3
starstruck	10	2
statistics	10	3
stigmatics	10	3
stomachics	10	3
stringency	10	3
stylistics	10	3
subarctics	10	3
subcompact	10	3
subdialect	10	3
subjacency	10	4
subpotency	10	4
subproduct	10	3
subproject	10	3
subscience	10	2
subsidence	10	3
subsurface	10	3
subtenancy	10	4
subtropics	10	3
succulence	10	3
sudorifics	10	4
sufferance	10	3
superbitch	10	3
superblock	10	3
superflack	10	3
superslick	10	3
superstock	10	3
superthick	10	3
supplejack	10	3
suppliance	10	2
survivance	10	3
sustenance	10	3
switchback	10	2
sycophancy	10	4
syntactics	10	3
synthetics	10	3
tacamahacs	10	4
taperstick	10	3
temperance	10	3
threepence	10	2
transience	10	2
transiency	10	3
trenchancy	10	3
tricyclics	10	3
truculence	10	3
truculency	10	4
tumescence	10	3
turbulence	10	3
turbulency	10	4
turtleback	10	3
turtleneck	10	3
ultraslick	10	3
uncoalesce	10	3
underprice	10	3
underreact	10	3
undertrick	10	3
vicariance	10	3
videodiscs	10	3
virescence	10	3
viscountcy	10	3
whipstitch	10	2
wristwatch	10	2

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed C in the 9th slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping C locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
We compile from a broad English list. Skim the top rows for more common picks.