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9-letter words with S as the 8th letter

A curated list of 9-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Use this when S is fixed in the 8th slot; rotate high-frequency consonants elsewhere to prune fast. For example: abruptest, absurdest, absurdism.

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1637 words
Word Definition Length Syllables
abruptest93
absurdest93
absurdism93
absurdist93
academism94
acridness93
acuteness94
adeptness93
adroitest93
adultness93
advertise93
aerialist93
aftermost93
albatross93
alchemist93
alertness93
alienness93
alikeness94
aliveness94
allergist93
almshouse92
aloneness94
aloofness93
amoralism94
ampleness93
anabolism94
analogist94
anarchism93
anarchist93
anatomise94
anatomist94
anchoress93
angelfish93
angerless93
anglicise93
anglicism93
angriness93
animalism94
antinoise93
antipress93
antisense93
antitrust93
apartness93
apishness93
apologise94
apologist94
arabinose94
archivist93
armorless93
askewness93
atonalism94
atonalist94
augustest93
auntliest92
austerest93
auteurist93
authoress93
authorise93
autocross93
autoecism93
awareness94
awfullest93
awfulness93
backcross92
backhouse92
backslash92
bagginess93
baksheesh92
balkiness93
balladist93
ballsiest92
balminess93
barbarism93
barrenest93
bathhouse92
battiness93
baulkiest92
bawdiness93
beachiest92
beardless92
beechiest92
bellicose93
biblicism93
biblicist93
bicyclist93
biologism93
biologist93
birdhouse92
bitterest93
bitterish93
blackfish92
blacklist92
blackness92
blameless93
blandness92
blankness92
blastiest92
bleakness92
bleariest92
blindfish92
blindness92
blockiest92
bloodiest92
bloodless92
bloomiest92
blottiest92
blousiest92
blowsiest92
blowziest92
bluegrass92
bluesiest92
bluffness92
bluntness92
blurriest92
boathouse92
booklouse92
bossiness93
botchiest92
bounciest92
boundless92
bowelless93
braggiest92
braillist92
braincase92
brainiest92
brainless92
brainwash92
brakeless93
branniest92
brashiest92
brashness92
brassiest92
brattiest92
bratwurst92
brawliest92
brawniest92
breakfast92
breeziest92
brickiest92
briefcase92
briefless92
briefness92
brightest92
brininess93
briskness92
brittlest92
broadcast92
broadness92
bronziest92
broodiest92
broomiest92
browniest92
brownnose92
brushiest92
brusquest92
brutalise93
bubbliest92
bulkiness93
bumpiness93
bunchiest92
bunkhouse92
burbliest92
burliness93
bushiness93
buxomness93
caciquism93
cageyness93
calaboose93
callowest93
campiness93
candidest93
canniness93
capablest93
carburise93
careerism93
careerist93
cartelise93
cataclysm93
catalepsy94
cataplasm93
catchiest92
catechism93
catechist93
cattiness93
causeless93
ceaseless93
cellulase93
cellulose93
chaffiest92
chalkiest92
chanciest92
chanteuse92
chariness93
charmeuse92
charmless92
charriest92
chattiest92
cheapness92
checkless92
checklist92
cheekiest92
cheeriest92
cheerless92
cheesiest92
chertiest92
chestiest92
childless92
chilliest92
chillness92
chimerism93
chinkiest92
chippiest92
chirpiest92
choosiest92
chophouse92
choppiest92
chubbiest92
chuffiest92
chummiest92
chunkiest92
clammiest92
classiest92
classless92
cleanness92
clearness92
cleverest93
cleverish93
cliffiest92
clingiest92
cliquiest92
clockwise92
cloddiest92
cloggiest92
closeness93
cloudiest92
cloudless92
clubbiest92
clubhouse92
clumpiest92
clumsiest92
clunkiest92
coagulase93
coastwise92
coatdress92
cockhorse92
cockiness93
coheiress93
cohostess93
coiffeuse92
collagist93
colorfast93
colorless93
columnist93
comeliest93
commonest93
communise93
communism93
communist93
concisest93
concourse92
cookhouse92
copublish93
cordgrass92
corkiness93
cornetist93
corniness93
corymbose93
costliest92
countless92
couthiest92
coverless93
crabbiest92
crabgrass92
craftiest92
craggiest92
crankcase92
crankiest92
crappiest92
crassness92
crawliest92
crayonist92
craziness93
creakiest92
creamiest92
creasiest92
creepiest92
crestless92
cretinism93
crimeless93
crimpiest92
crispiest92
crispness92
criticise93
criticism93
croakiest92
crossness92
crosswise92
croupiest92
crownless92
cruddiest92
crudeness93
cruellest92
cruelness92
crumbiest92
crummiest92
crustiest92
crustless92
cuddliest92
curliness93
cursedest93
customise93
cutesiest93
cymbalist93
cytoplasm93
dailiness93
daintiest92
damnedest93
dapperest93
darkliest92
darnedest93
datedness93
dauntless92
dazedness93
deaconess93
deadliest92
deaminase93
deathless92
decentest93
deckhouse92
decompose93
decongest93
defeatism93
defeatist93
demitasse93
denseness93
denturist93
depthless92
derepress93
despotism93
devilfish93
devoutest93
diabolism93
diabolist93
dialogist93
dichroism92
dicrotism93
dimpliest92
dinginess93
directest93
dirtiness93
discourse92
dishonest93
disinfest93
disinvest93
dismalest93
displease92
dispraise92
disrelish93
dizziness93
dodginess93
doggonest93
dogmatism93
dogmatist93
dollhouse92
dottiness93
doubtless92
doughiest92
dowdiness93
downburst92
draffiest92
draftiest92
draggiest92
dragonish93
dramatise93
dramatist93
drawliest92
dreamiest92
dreamless92
dreariest92
dreggiest92
dressiest92
driftiest92
drippiest92
drollness92
droopiest92
drossiest92
drowsiest92
druggiest92
drumliest92
dryasdust92
dumpiness93
durnedest93
duskiness93
dustiness93
dwarfness92
eagerness93
earliness93
earthiest92
earthrise92
ecdysiast93
ecologist94
economise94
economist94
ectoplasm93
ecumenism94
ecumenist94
edelweiss93
electress93
embarrass93
embellish93
empathise93
emphasise93
emptiness93
enamelist94
encomiast93
encompass93
endoplasm93
enologist94
epicenism94
epicurism94
epigonism94
epimerase94
epitomise94
equipoise93
erectness93
eremitism94
eroticism94
eroticist94
errorless93
erythrism93
establish93
eunuchism93
euphemise93
euphemism93
euphemist93
euthenist93
eventless93
exactness93
exegetist94
exoticism94
expertise93
expertism93
extremest93
extremism93
extremist93
faintness92
faithless92
falseness93
fanciness93
fantasise93
fantasist93
farmhouse92
fattiness93
faultiest92
faultless92
featliest92
feetfirst92
feistiest92
fenceless93
fetichism93
fetidness93
fetishism93
fetishist93
feudalism93
feudalist93
fieriness93
filminess93
filthiest92
firehouse93
fixedness93
flabbiest92
flaggiest92
flakiness93
flappiest92
flashiest92
flavorist93
fledgiest92
fleeciest92
fleetness92
fleshiest92
flimsiest92
flintiest92
flirtiest92
floatiest92
flockiest92
flophouse92
floppiest92
flossiest92
flourless92
fluffiest92
fluidness92
flushness92
foaminess93
focusless93
fogginess93
folksiest92
footloose92
forceless93
foreclose93
formalise93
formalism93
formalist93
fossilise93
frailness92
framboise92
franchise92
frankness92
freakiest92
freshness92
frettiest92
frilliest92
fringiest92
friskiest92
frizziest92
froggiest92
frontless92
frostiest92
frothiest92
frouziest92
frowsiest92
frowziest92
fruitiest92
fruitless92
frumpiest92
fruticose93
funkiness93
funniness93
fusionist93
fussiness93
fustiness93
fuzziness93
gainliest92
galactose93
gallicism93
galvanise93
galvanism93
gangliest92
gassiness93
gatehouse93
gaudiness93
gauntness92
gawkiness93
geodesist93
geologist93
ghostiest92
gibberish93
giddiness93
gigantism93
giggliest92
giraffish93
gladliest92
glairiest92
glamorise93
glandless92
glassiest92
glassless92
gleamiest92
gleetiest92
glitziest92
globalise93
globalism93
globalist93
globbiest92
globefish93
gloomiest92
glossiest92
glumpiest92
gnarliest92
gnattiest92
gneissose92
godliness93
goggliest92
goldenest93
goodliest92
gooeyness92
goofiness93
goosefish93
governess93
grabbiest92
graceless93
gradeless93
grainiest92
grandiose92
grandioso93
grandness92
granulose93
grapiness93
grassiest92
grassless92
graveless93
graveness93
greasiest92
greatness92
greediest92
greeniest92
greenness92
griminess93
grippiest92
grisliest92
grittiest92
groggiest92
grooviest92
grossness92
grottiest92
groutiest92
growliest92
grubbiest92
gruffiest92
gruffness92
grumpiest92
grungiest92
guidepost93
guileless93
guiltiest92
guiltless92
guitarist93
gumminess93
gushiness93
gustiness93
gutsiness93
hackliest92
haggadist93
hairbrush92
hairiness93
hamminess93
handclasp92
handiness93
handpress92
happiness93
hardiness93
harmonise93
harshness92
hastiness93
haulmiest92
headdress92
headfirst92
headiness93
heartiest92
heartless92
heathiest92
heathless92
heaviness93
heftiness93
herbalist93
hermetism93
hermetist93
hermitism93
heroinism93
hillcrest92
hippiness93
hirsutism93
hispanism93
hoarfrost92
hoariness93
hokeyness93
hollowest93
holocaust93
homeliest93
homeyness93
homoplasy94
honestest93
hoodooism92
horniness93
horseless93
horsiness93
hourglass92
houseless93
hoydenish93
huffiness93
humanness93
humorless93
hungriest92
huskiness93
hybridism93
hydrolase93
hygienist93
hylozoism93
hylozoist93
hypnotism93
hypnotist93
hypoblast93
hypocaust93
hypocrisy94
idealless93
idioblast93
immensest93
imprecise93
improvise93
inaneness94
inaptness93
indispose93
ineptness93
inertness93
innermost93
intensest93
interfuse93
intermesh93
internist93
interpose93
inverness93
invertase93
irateness94
isinglass93
isomerase94
isomerism94
issueless93
italicise94
itchiness93
jadedness93
jaggedest93
jailhouse92
jangliest92
jargonish93
jauntiest92
jazziness93
jellyfish93
jerkiness93
jesuitism93
jiggliest92
jingliest92
jointress92
jounciest92
juiceless93
juiciness93
jumpiness93
jungliest92
juxtapose93
kaiserism93
karateist93
killifish93
kilogauss93
kindliest92
kingliest92
kinkiness93
kittenish93
klutziest92
knobbiest92
knotgrass92
knottiest92
knubbiest92
knurliest92
kookiness93
lankiness93
larcenist93
largeness93
larkiness93
lathyrism93
laundress92
lavishest93
leachiest92
leakiness93
leastwise92
legginess93
levelness93
lickerish93
lightfast92
lightless92
lightness92
likeliest93
limberest93
limitless93
limpsiest92
linearise93
linerless93
litheness93
liturgist93
liveliest93
lividness93
loathness92
lobscouse92
loftiness93
loneliest93
longhouse92
looniness93
looseness93
lordliest92
loudliest92
lousiness93
loveliest93
lowercase93
lowermost93
lowliness93
lucidness93
luckiness93
lumpiness93
luridness93
lustiness93
lyonnaise92
machinist93
macintosh93
macrocosm93
magnetise93
magnetism93
mammonism93
mammonist93
manganese93
manginess93
manliness93
mannerism93
mannerist93
marbleise92
marbliest92
marimbist93
marshiest92
masochism93
masochist93
matchless92
mateyness93
measliest92
meatiness93
mechanism93
mechanist93
medallist93
meliorism93
meliorist93
mellowest93
memoirist93
menopause93
menseless93
mentalism93
mentalist93
mercerise93
merciless93
merriness93
mesmerise93
mesmerism93
mesmerist93
mesopause93
messiness93
metaphase93
metatarsi94
methodise93
methodism93
methodist93
methylase93
microcosm93
midcourse92
mightiest92
milkiness93
mirthless92
misadjust93
misadvise93
misoneism93
mistiness93
modernest93
modernise93
modernism93
modernist93
modestest93
moistness92
moldiness93
monachism93
mongolism93
monoecism93
moodiness93
mosaicism93
mosaicist93
motleyest92
motocross93
motorless93
mouldiest92
mousiness93
mouthiest92
mouthwash92
muddiness93
mugginess93
mullahism93
murderess93
murkiness93
mushiness93
muskiness93
mussiness93
mustiness93
mutualism93
mutualist93
muzziness93
mysticism93
nailbrush92
naiveness93
nakedness93
narrowest93
nastiness93
natheless93
nattiness93
nearliest92
neediness93
neologism93
nerveless93
nerviness93
nettliest92
newsiness93
nightless92
nippiness93
nobleness93
noiseless93
noisiness93
nonartist93
nongreasy93
nonsexist93
nontheist92
normalise93
northeast92
northwest92
notedness93
nubbliest92
nuttiness93
oasthouse92
obscenest93
obscurest93
occultism93
occultist93
ocularist94
orangiest93
orderless93
orneriest93
orthotist93
ostracise93
ostracism93
otherness93
otherwise93
outdoorsy93
outermost93
outthrust92
overdress93
overfussy94
overtness93
packhorse92
paintiest92
palletise93
palliasse92
paltriest92
pantdress92
pantheism92
pantheist92
pantyhose93
paperless93
papillose93
passivism93
passivist93
pastelist93
pastiness93
patchiest92
patroness93
patronise93
pauperism93
peachiest92
pearliest92
pebbliest92
pelletise93
penniless93
penthouse92
peppiness93
peptidase93
periplast93
perkiness93
pessimism93
pessimist93
pesthouse92
pettiness93
phoniness93
photomask93
physicist93
piecewise93
pilotless93
pimpliest92
piousness92
piroplasm93
pitchiest92
pithiness93
placeless93
plainness92
plashiest92
platyfish93
playhouse92
pleatless92
plottiest92
pluckiest92
plummiest92
plumpness92
pluralism93
pluralist93
plushiest92
plushness92
poachiest92
poeticism93
pogromist93
pointiest92
pointless92
politesse93
polonaise93
polyphase93
ponderosa94
poorhouse92
portliest92
postcrash92
pouchiest92
powerless93
precieuse92
precisest93
precrease92
predigest93
premonish93
preppiest92
prestress92
prettiest92
prettyish92
priceless93
prickiest92
priestess92
primeness93
princesse92
printless92
prissiest92
privatest93
privatise93
privatism93
promptest92
proneness93
properest93
prosiness93
prosodist93
publicise93
publicist93
puddliest92
pudginess93
puerilism93
puffiness93
pulpiness93
pulverise93
punchiest92
punchless92
punkiness93
pursiness93
pushiness93
putschist92
puttyless93
pythoness93
quaggiest92
quaintest92
qualmiest92
quartzose92
queasiest92
queaziest92
queerness92
quickness92
quietness92
quippiest92
quirkiest92
quixotism93
rabbinism93
rabidness93
racehorse93
racialism93
racialist93
raffinose93
raggedest93
ranginess93
rapidness93
readdress92
readiness93
rearmouse92
rebaptism93
recentest93
recognise93
recompose93
recordist93
redbreast92
rediscuss93
redispose93
reductase93
reechiest92
reediness93
reexpress92
reformism93
reformist93
refurbish93
refurnish93
reimburse92
reimmerse92
relicense93
religiose93
replenish93
replicase93
repossess93
reprocess93
republish93
rerelease93
reremouse93
reservist93
retrousse92
rheumiest92
rhymeless93
rhythmist92
riderless93
rightmost92
rightness92
rigidness93
rippliest92
riskiness93
ritualism93
ritualist93
ritziness93
roadhouse92
robustest93
rockiness93
roominess93
rottenest93
roughcast92
roughness92
roundness92
rowdiness93
rubbliest92
ruddiness93
ruffliest92
ruggedest93
rumpliest92
runtiness93
rustiness93
sablefish93
sagebrush93
sallowest93
sallowish93
saltiness93
sandblast92
sandglass92
sandiness93
sappiness93
saturnism93
sauciness93
savoriest93
savorless93
scabbiest92
scaleless93
scaliness93
scantiest92
scantness92
scarriest92
scattiest92
scenarist93
scentless92
schistose92
schiziest92
scholiast92
scientism92
scientist92
scoreless93
screwiest92
scummiest92
scurfiest92
scurviest92
scuzziest92
seaminess93
secretest93
seediness93
seemliest92
semigloss93
semimoist93
senseless93
sensitise93
serialise93
serialism93
serialist93
shabbiest92
shadeless93
shadiness93
shaggiest92
shakiness93
shamanism93
shamanist93
shamefast93
shameless93
shapeless93
sharpness92
sheeniest92
sheerness92
shellfish92
shelliest92
shelviest92
shiftiest92
shiftless92
shininess93
shirtiest92
shirtless92
shittiest92
shoaliest92
shoddiest92
shortlist92
shortness92
shouldest92
showiness93
shrewdest92
shrillest92
sickliest92
sidedness93
sidedress93
sightless92
signalise93
silentest93
silkiness93
silliness93
simulcast93
sincerest93
skiddiest92
skimpiest92
skinniest92
slackness92
slaggiest92
slangiest92
slantwise92
sleaziest92
sleekiest92
sleekness92
sleepiest92
sleepless92
sleetiest92
slickness92
slightest92
sliminess93
slimsiest92
slinkiest92
slippiest92
slobbiest92
sloppiest92
sloshiest92
sludgiest92
slummiest92
slushiest92
smallness92
smarmiest92
smartness92
smearcase92
smeariest92
smelliest92
smiercase92
smileless93
smirkiest92
smoggiest92
smokeless93
smokiness93
smoothest92
smudgiest92
smuttiest92
snaggiest92
snappiest92
snarkiest92
snarliest92
snazziest92
sneakiest92
sneeziest92
snideness93
sniffiest92
snippiest92
snobbiest92
snoopiest92
snootiest92
snooziest92
snottiest92
snoutiest92
snowbrush92
snowiness93
snubbiest92
snuffiest92
soapiness93
soberness93
socialise93
socialism93
socialist93
sogginess93
solemnest93
solidness93
solipsism93
solipsist93
soothfast92
sootiness93
soppiness93
sorceress93
sorriness93
soundless92
soundness92
southeast92
southwest92
sovietism93
spaceless93
spadefish93
spareness93
sparkiest92
sparriest92
speakeasy93
spearfish92
speediest92
spheriest92
spicebush93
spiceless93
spiciness93
spiderish93
spiffiest92
spikiness93
spineless93
spininess93
spinulose93
spiritism93
spiritist93
spiritoso94
spongiest92
spookiest92
spooniest92
sporocyst93
sportiest92
spottiest92
spruciest92
spunkiest92
squatness92
squattest92
squawfish92
squeamish92
squintest92
staggiest92
staginess93
staidness92
stainless92
staircase92
staleness93
stalkiest92
stalkless92
stampless92
stanchest92
starkness92
starriest92
stateless93
statocyst93
steadfast92
steadiest92
steamiest92
steeliest92
steepness92
stemmiest92
sternmost92
sternness92
sternpost92
stickiest92
stiffness92
stilliest92
stillness92
stingiest92
stingless92
stinkiest92
stockfish92
stockiest92
stodgiest92
stolidest93
stonefish93
stoniness93
stormiest92
stoutness92
straitest92
strangest92
strapless92
strawiest92
strictest92
stripiest92
strongest92
strongish92
stubbiest92
studhorse92
studliest92
stuffiest92
stuffless92
stumpiest92
stupidest93
sturdiest92
styleless93
suaveness93
sublimest93
submucosa94
subsidise93
subtilest93
succotash93
sugariest93
sugarless93
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FAQs

How do I play around a fixed S in the 8th slot?
Try mixing common consonant clusters (ST, TR, CH) in other positions while keeping S locked.

Why are uncommon words included?
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