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8-letter words with C as the 5th letter

A curated list of 8-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when C is fixed in the 5th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abbacies, abdicate, abducens.

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1003 words

Word	Length	Syllables
abbacies	8	3
abdicate	8	3
abducens	8	3
abducent	8	3
abducing	8	3
abducted	8	3
abductor	8	3
abjectly	8	3
abrachia	8	3
acescent	8	3
addicted	8	3
adducent	8	3
adducers	8	3
adducing	8	3
adducted	8	3
adductor	8	3
adjacent	8	3
aduncate	8	3
aduncous	8	3
advected	8	3
advocacy	8	4
advocate	8	3
affected	8	3
affecter	8	3
affiches	8	3
agencies	8	3
aglycone	8	3
aglycons	8	3
airscape	8	2
airscrew	8	2
albacore	8	3
albicore	8	3
alencons	8	3
algicide	8	3
allicins	8	3
allocate	8	3
alnicoes	8	3
amelcorn	8	3
amercers	8	3
amercing	8	3
ammocete	8	3
analcime	8	3
analcite	8	3
anarchic	8	3
antacids	8	3
antecede	8	3
anticity	8	4
anticked	8	3
anticold	8	3
anticult	8	3
apractic	8	3
apricots	8	3
aquacade	8	3
articled	8	3
articles	8	3
ascocarp	8	3
atrocity	8	4
attached	8	3
attacher	8	3
attaches	8	3
attacked	8	3
attacker	8	3
atticism	8	3
atticist	8	3
audacity	8	4
auricled	8	3
auricles	8	3
auricula	8	4
autacoid	8	3
autecism	8	3
autocade	8	3
autocoid	8	3
autocrat	8	3
avouched	8	3
avoucher	8	3
avouches	8	3
babiches	8	3
backcast	8	2
backchat	8	2
bankcard	8	2
basicity	8	4
bearcats	8	2
beaucoup	8	2
bedecked	8	3
beefcake	8	2
bemocked	8	3
beuncled	8	2
bicycled	8	3
bicycler	8	3
bicycles	8	3
bicyclic	8	3
bifacial	8	3
bifocals	8	3
binocles	8	3
bioscope	8	2
bioscopy	8	3
biracial	8	3
birdcage	8	2
birdcall	8	2
bisected	8	3
bisector	8	3
blanched	8	2
blancher	8	2
blanches	8	2
bleached	8	2
bleacher	8	2
bleaches	8	2
blenched	8	2
blencher	8	2
blenches	8	2
blotched	8	2
blotches	8	2
bluecaps	8	2
bluecoat	8	2
bobeches	8	3
bocaccio	8	3
bookcase	8	2
boracite	8	3
borecole	8	3
borsches	8	2
borschts	8	1
bouncers	8	2
bouncier	8	2
bouncily	8	3
bouncing	8	2
branched	8	2
branches	8	2
branchia	8	2
breached	8	2
breacher	8	2
breaches	8	2
breccial	8	2
breccias	8	2
breeched	8	2
breeches	8	2
brioches	8	2
britches	8	2
broached	8	2
broacher	8	2
broaches	8	2
broccoli	8	3
bronchia	8	2
bronchos	8	2
bronchus	8	2
brooches	8	2
brunched	8	2
brunches	8	2
caboched	8	3
cabochon	8	3
caducean	8	3
caduceus	8	3
caducity	8	4
caducous	8	3
caleches	8	3
caliches	8	3
calicles	8	3
calicoes	8	3
calycate	8	3
calyceal	8	3
calycine	8	3
calycles	8	3
calyculi	8	4
capacity	8	4
capuched	8	3
capuches	8	3
capuchin	8	3
caracals	8	3
caracara	8	4
caracole	8	3
caracols	8	3
caraculs	8	3
cardcase	8	2
caroches	8	3
catacomb	8	3
catechin	8	3
catechol	8	3
catechus	8	3
cavicorn	8	3
cenacles	8	3
cetacean	8	3
ceviches	8	3
chalcids	8	2
chancels	8	2
chancery	8	3
chancier	8	2
chancily	8	3
chancing	8	2
chancres	8	2
charcoal	8	2
chatchka	8	2
chatchke	8	1
chiccory	8	3
chinches	8	2
chitchat	8	2
choicely	8	3
choicest	8	2
chowchow	8	2
churched	8	2
churches	8	2
churchly	8	2
civicism	8	3
clenched	8	2
clencher	8	2
clenches	8	2
clinched	8	2
clincher	8	2
clinches	8	2
clutched	8	2
clutches	8	2
coanchor	8	2
cockcrow	8	2
codicils	8	3
coercers	8	2
coercing	8	2
coercion	8	2
coercive	8	2
cofactor	8	3
coincide	8	2
coldcock	8	2
colicine	8	3
colicins	8	3
colocate	8	3
conicity	8	4
cooncans	8	2
copycats	8	3
coracles	8	3
coracoid	8	3
corncake	8	2
corncobs	8	2
corncrib	8	2
cosecant	8	3
councils	8	2
couscous	8	2
cranched	8	2
cranches	8	2
cratches	8	2
crescent	8	2
crescive	8	2
crotched	8	2
crotches	8	2
crotchet	8	2
crouched	8	2
crouches	8	2
crunched	8	2
cruncher	8	2
crunches	8	2
crutched	8	2
crutches	8	2
cubicity	8	4
cubicles	8	3
cubicula	8	4
culicids	8	3
culicine	8	3
cultches	8	2
curacaos	8	3
curacies	8	3
curacoas	8	3
cuticles	8	3
cuticula	8	4
cynicism	8	3
debacles	8	3
decocted	8	3
dedicate	8	3
deducing	8	3
deducted	8	3
defacers	8	3
defacing	8	3
defecate	8	3
defected	8	3
defector	8	3
deficits	8	3
dejected	8	3
delicacy	8	4
delicate	8	3
democrat	8	3
depicted	8	3
depicter	8	3
depictor	8	3
detached	8	3
detacher	8	3
detaches	8	3
detected	8	3
detecter	8	3
detector	8	3
deticked	8	3
deticker	8	3
diarchic	8	2
dicyclic	8	3
didactic	8	3
didactyl	8	3
dioecies	8	2
dioecism	8	2
dioicous	8	2
directed	8	3
directer	8	3
directly	8	3
director	8	3
domicile	8	3
domicils	8	3
dovecote	8	3
dovecots	8	3
downcast	8	2
downcome	8	2
drenched	8	2
drencher	8	2
drenches	8	2
dumbcane	8	2
dumpcart	8	2
dyarchic	8	2
earaches	8	3
eclectic	8	3
effacers	8	3
effacing	8	3
effected	8	3
effecter	8	3
effector	8	3
efficacy	8	4
elenchic	8	3
elenchus	8	3
elenctic	8	3
encyclic	8	3
endocarp	8	3
endocast	8	3
enfacing	8	3
enlacing	8	3
enriched	8	3
enricher	8	3
enriches	8	3
enticers	8	3
enticing	8	3
episcias	8	3
episcope	8	3
especial	8	3
ethicals	8	3
ethician	8	3
ethicist	8	3
ethicize	8	3
eulachan	8	3
eulachon	8	3
eutectic	8	3
evincing	8	3
evincive	8	3
exarchal	8	3
exercise	8	3
exorcise	8	3
exorcism	8	3
exorcist	8	3
exorcize	8	3
expected	8	3
exsecant	8	3
exsected	8	3
felicity	8	4
feluccas	8	3
feracity	8	4
ferocity	8	4
fetiches	8	3
feticide	8	3
fiancees	8	2
fiascoes	8	2
fiducial	8	3
fiercely	8	3
fiercest	8	2
filicide	8	3
filmcard	8	2
finickin	8	3
finochio	8	3
fireclay	8	3
flancard	8	2
flatcaps	8	2
flatcars	8	2
fleecers	8	2
fleeched	8	2
fleeches	8	2
fleecier	8	2
fleecily	8	3
fleecing	8	2
flenched	8	2
flenches	8	2
fletched	8	2
fletcher	8	2
fletches	8	2
flinched	8	2
flincher	8	2
flinches	8	2
flitched	8	2
flitches	8	2
floccing	8	2
floccose	8	2
floccule	8	2
flocculi	8	3
flysches	8	2
focaccia	8	3
folacins	8	3
forecast	8	3
fourchee	8	1
francium	8	2
frenched	8	2
frenches	8	2
frescoed	8	2
frescoer	8	2
frescoes	8	2
fugacity	8	4
funicles	8	3
funiculi	8	4
galactic	8	3
gamecock	8	3
ganaches	8	3
gearcase	8	2
genocide	8	3
glancers	8	2
glancing	8	2
glaucoma	8	3
glaucous	8	2
glitches	8	2
glunched	8	2
glunches	8	2
gonocyte	8	3
gouaches	8	2
graecize	8	2
grinches	8	2
groschen	8	2
grouched	8	2
grouches	8	2
grutched	8	2
grutches	8	2
gynecium	8	3
gynecoid	8	3
haircaps	8	2
haircuts	8	2
halachas	8	3
halachot	8	3
handcars	8	2
handcart	8	2
handcuff	8	2
hardcase	8	2
hardcore	8	2
haricots	8	3
haunched	8	2
haunches	8	2
havocked	8	3
havocker	8	3
helicity	8	4
helicoid	8	3
helicons	8	3
helicopt	8	3
hellcats	8	2
hemocoel	8	3
hemocyte	8	3
hibachis	8	3
hijacked	8	3
hijacker	8	3
homicide	8	3
hootches	8	2
hyoscine	8	2
hyracoid	8	3
idiocies	8	3
imbecile	8	3
impacted	8	3
impacter	8	3
impactor	8	3
inarched	8	3
inarches	8	3
indecent	8	3
indicans	8	3
indicant	8	3
indicate	8	3
indicias	8	3
indicium	8	3
indicted	8	3
indictee	8	2
indicter	8	3
indictor	8	3
indocile	8	3
inducers	8	3
inducing	8	3
inducted	8	3
inductee	8	2
inductor	8	3
infected	8	3
infecter	8	3
infector	8	3
infecund	8	3
injected	8	3
injector	8	3
inlacing	8	3
innocent	8	3
insectan	8	3
insecure	8	3
invected	8	3
invocate	8	3
ionicity	8	4
iotacism	8	3
ironclad	8	3
jauncing	8	2
jouncier	8	2
jouncing	8	2
judicial	8	3
kamacite	8	3
kazachki	8	3
kazachok	8	3
kingcups	8	2
kirsches	8	2
kitsches	8	2
klatches	8	2
kneecaps	8	2
kvetched	8	2
kvetches	8	2
launched	8	2
launcher	8	2
launches	8	2
legacies	8	3
lexicons	8	3
libeccio	8	3
limacine	8	3
limacons	8	3
linecuts	8	3
lingcods	8	2
linocuts	8	3
lipocyte	8	3
lodicule	8	3
logician	8	3
logicise	8	3
logicize	8	3
loricate	8	3
lunacies	8	3
lutecium	8	3
lyricise	8	3
lyricism	8	3
lyricist	8	3
lyricize	8	3
magician	8	3
magicked	8	3
malaccas	8	3
manacled	8	3
manacles	8	3
manicure	8	3
marocain	8	3
masscult	8	2
maxicoat	8	3
medicaid	8	3
medicals	8	3
medicare	8	3
medicate	8	3
medicine	8	3
megacity	8	4
menacers	8	3
menacing	8	3
menschen	8	2
mensches	8	2
mesocarp	8	3
meticais	8	3
meticals	8	3
millcake	8	2
mimicked	8	3
mimicker	8	3
minacity	8	4
minicabs	8	3
minicamp	8	3
minicars	8	3
miracles	8	3
misacted	8	3
miticide	8	3
mobocrat	8	3
modicums	8	3
molecule	8	3
monachal	8	3
monacids	8	3
monecian	8	3
monicker	8	3
monocarp	8	3
monocled	8	3
monocles	8	3
monocots	8	3
monocrat	8	3
monocyte	8	3
mooncalf	8	2
moorcock	8	2
moroccos	8	3
muricate	8	3
musicale	8	3
musicals	8	3
musician	8	3
muticous	8	3
myoscope	8	2
myxocyte	8	3
nautches	8	2
navicert	8	3
newscast	8	2
nonacids	8	3
nonactor	8	3
notecard	8	3
notecase	8	3
noticers	8	3
noticing	8	3
nudicaul	8	3
objected	8	3
objector	8	3
obtected	8	3
officers	8	3
official	8	3
oiticica	8	4
oolachan	8	3
opencast	8	3
opercele	8	3
opercula	8	4
opercule	8	3
optician	8	3
opticist	8	3
opuscula	8	4
opuscule	8	3
ossicles	8	3
otoscope	8	3
otoscopy	8	4
outacted	8	3
outscold	8	2
outscoop	8	2
outscore	8	2
outscorn	8	2
overcall	8	3
overcame	8	3
overcast	8	3
overcoat	8	3
overcold	8	3
overcome	8	3
overcook	8	3
overcool	8	3
overcram	8	3
overcrop	8	3
overcure	8	3
overcuts	8	3
oxpecker	8	3
oxyacids	8	3
painches	8	2
panacean	8	3
panaceas	8	3
panaches	8	3
panicked	8	3
panicled	8	3
panicles	8	3
panicums	8	3
panochas	8	3
panoches	8	3
papacies	8	3
parachor	8	3
parecism	8	3
paunched	8	2
paunches	8	2
peascods	8	2
pedicabs	8	3
pedicels	8	3
pedicled	8	3
pedicles	8	3
pedicure	8	3
pedocals	8	3
pelicans	8	3
pemicans	8	3
penicils	8	3
penoches	8	3
penuches	8	3
penuchis	8	3
penuchle	8	2
penuckle	8	2
peracids	8	3
pericarp	8	3
pericope	8	3
petechia	8	3
picachos	8	3
piercers	8	2
piercing	8	2
pinecone	8	3
pinochle	8	2
pinocles	8	3
pinscher	8	2
piracies	8	3
planches	8	2
planchet	8	2
pleached	8	2
pleaches	8	2
plenches	8	2
podocarp	8	3
polecats	8	3
policies	8	3
policing	8	3
polycots	8	3
postcard	8	2
postcava	8	3
postcode	8	2
postcoup	8	2
potiches	8	3
pouncers	8	2
pouncing	8	2
praecipe	8	2
prancers	8	2
prancing	8	2
preached	8	2
preacher	8	2
preaches	8	2
preacted	8	2
prescind	8	2
prescore	8	2
princely	8	3
princess	8	2
principe	8	2
principi	8	3
princock	8	2
pulicene	8	3
pulicide	8	3
pumicers	8	3
pumicing	8	3
pumicite	8	3
pushcart	8	2
putsches	8	2
quaiches	8	2
quenched	8	2
quencher	8	2
quenches	8	2
quercine	8	2
quincunx	8	2
quitches	8	2
radicals	8	3
radicand	8	3
radicate	8	3
radicels	8	3
radicles	8	3
railcars	8	2
raincoat	8	2
rapacity	8	4
raticide	8	3
raunches	8	2
reaccede	8	2
reaccent	8	2
reaccept	8	2
reaccuse	8	2
reascend	8	2
reascent	8	2
recocked	8	3
recycled	8	3
recycler	8	3
recycles	8	3
redacted	8	3
redactor	8	3
redecide	8	3
redocked	8	3
reducers	8	3
reducing	8	3
reductor	8	3
refacing	8	3
refected	8	3
regicide	8	3
reincite	8	2
reincurs	8	2
rejacket	8	3
rejected	8	3
rejectee	8	2
rejecter	8	3
rejector	8	3
relacing	8	3
relocate	8	3
relocked	8	3
relucent	8	3
relucted	8	3
reoccupy	8	3
reoccurs	8	2
repacify	8	4
repacked	8	3
reracked	8	3
rerecord	8	3
resected	8	3
resecure	8	3
retacked	8	3
retackle	8	2
reticent	8	3
reticles	8	3
reticula	8	4
reticule	8	3
rhonchal	8	2
rhonchus	8	2
ricochet	8	3
ridicule	8	3
rubicund	8	3
sagacity	8	4
salacity	8	4
salicine	8	3
salicins	8	3
sanicles	8	3
scarcely	8	3
scarcest	8	2
scarcity	8	3
scincoid	8	2
sconcing	8	2
scorched	8	2
scorcher	8	2
scorches	8	2
scotched	8	2
scotches	8	2
scutched	8	2
scutcher	8	2
scutches	8	2
searched	8	2
searcher	8	2
searches	8	2
seascape	8	2
seascout	8	2
seducers	8	3
seducing	8	3
seducive	8	3
seedcake	8	2
seedcase	8	2
selected	8	3
selectee	8	2
selectly	8	3
selector	8	3
semicoma	8	4
senecios	8	3
sericins	8	3
setscrew	8	2
seviches	8	3
shadchan	8	2
showcase	8	2
sidecars	8	3
silicate	8	3
silicide	8	3
silicify	8	4
silicium	8	3
silicles	8	3
silicone	8	3
silicons	8	3
silicula	8	4
sinecure	8	3
sinicize	8	3
siroccos	8	3
sketched	8	2
sketcher	8	2
sketches	8	2
slatches	8	2
slipcase	8	2
slouched	8	2
sloucher	8	2
slouches	8	2
sluicing	8	2
smirched	8	2
smirches	8	2
smooched	8	2
smooches	8	2
smutched	8	2
smutches	8	2
snatched	8	2
snatcher	8	2
snatches	8	2
snitched	8	2
snitcher	8	2
snitches	8	2
snowcaps	8	2
solacers	8	3
solacing	8	3
solecise	8	3
solecism	8	3
solecist	8	3
solecize	8	3
solicits	8	3
sonicate	8	3
soricine	8	3
soroches	8	3
soupcons	8	2
sourcing	8	2
spancels	8	2
speccing	8	2
speeches	8	2
spencers	8	2
spiccato	8	3
splicers	8	2
splicing	8	2
sprocket	8	2
sprucely	8	3
sprucest	8	2
sprucier	8	2
sprucing	8	2
staccati	8	3
staccato	8	3
stanched	8	2
stancher	8	2
stanches	8	2
stanchly	8	2
starched	8	2
starches	8	2
stenches	8	2
stencils	8	2
stitched	8	2
stitcher	8	2
stitches	8	2
stoccado	8	3
stoccata	8	3
stoicism	8	2
stopcock	8	2
stricken	8	2
strickle	8	1
stricter	8	2
strictly	8	2
strucken	8	2
stuccoed	8	2
stuccoer	8	2
stuccoes	8	2
subacrid	8	3
subacute	8	3
subscale	8	2
suitcase	8	2
sunscald	8	2
suricate	8	3
swatches	8	2
switched	8	2
switcher	8	2
switches	8	2
synectic	8	3
tailcoat	8	2
taxicabs	8	3
telecast	8	3
tenacity	8	4
tenacula	8	4
thatched	8	2
thatcher	8	2
thatches	8	2
theocrat	8	2
thinclad	8	2
thwacked	8	2
thwacker	8	2
tiercels	8	2
timecard	8	3
tobaccos	8	3
tonicity	8	4
toxicant	8	3
toxicity	8	4
tramcars	8	2
tranches	8	2
trancing	8	2
trauchle	8	1
treacles	8	2
trenched	8	2
trencher	8	2
trenches	8	2
triacids	8	2
triscele	8	2
truncate	8	2
tunicate	8	3
tunicles	8	3
turacous	8	3
turncoat	8	2
twitched	8	2
twitcher	8	2
twitches	8	2
typecase	8	3
typecast	8	3
unanchor	8	3
unbacked	8	3
unbuckle	8	2
uncocked	8	3
undecked	8	3
undocile	8	3
undocked	8	3
unlacing	8	3
unlicked	8	3
unlocked	8	3
unpacked	8	3
unpacker	8	3
unpicked	8	3
unpucker	8	3
unsicker	8	3
unsocial	8	3
untacked	8	3
untucked	8	3
uroscopy	8	4
urticant	8	3
urticate	8	3
utricles	8	3
utriculi	8	4
varactor	8	3
varicose	8	3
vaticide	8	3
vehicles	8	3
velocity	8	4
veracity	8	4
verecund	8	3
vesicant	8	3
vesicate	8	3
vesicles	8	3
vesicula	8	4
vidicons	8	3
viricide	8	3
virucide	8	3
vivacity	8	4
voracity	8	4
wellcurb	8	2
whinchat	8	2
whipcord	8	2
wildcats	8	2
woodchat	8	2
woodcock	8	2
woodcuts	8	2
wrenched	8	2
wrenches	8	2
wretched	8	2
wretches	8	2
xylocarp	8	3
zooecium	8	2

FAQs

How do I play around a fixed C in the 5th 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.