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Target sound (CMU notation): S  Position: Medial

The number of words is: 1309

absences

abstractions

abstracts

accepts

accessed

accessing

accidents

acoustics

acquaintances

acquisitions

actions

actresses

additions

addressed

addressing

adjusting

adjustments

administrations

administrators

adoptions

advances

affectionately

affiliations

affixed

affixing

agencies

alliances

allocations

allowances

alterations

ambitions

ambulances

anarchists

ancestors

angriest

announced

announces

answered

answering

answers

anticipates

anticipating

antitrust

appearances

appendixes

applications

appreciates

appreciating

apprenticeship

approximated

approximating

approximations

arrested

arrests

ascendancy

ascended

ascot

asking

asks

aspects

asper

assassination

assembled

assembles

assemblies

assesses

assessing

assessments

assessors

assigning

assignments

assigns

assistants

assisted

assisting

associating

assumes

assumptions

assures

astonished

atlases

attractions

awestruck

axel

balances

barest

bashed

bashes

bashing

basing

baskets

basque

bast

beasts

beneficiaries

besieged

biased

biases

bicycled

bicycles

bitterest

blackest

blasts

bleakest

blesses

blessings

blisters

bluest

blushed

boasted

boldest

bosses

boxcars

boxes

brainwashed

breakfasts

briefest

brightest

bristles

broadcasting

broadest

bursting

bursts

bushes

busiest

businesses

busing

busker

calculations

capacities

capsules

cases

cashed

cashews

casks

castes

castles

casts

cautioned

cautioning

cautions

ceased

ceases

ceasing

chances

characteristics

chased

chaser

chasten

cheapest

chests

choices

choicest

chopsticks

chromosomes

citations

civilizations

classics

classier

classifications

classifies

classifying

classing

cleanest

clearest

closest

clusters

coarser

cobblestones

coincided

coincidences

coincides

coinciding

coldest

collapsed

collapses

collapsing

collections

columnist

combinations

commenced

commences

commencing

commissioned

commissioners

commissioning

commissions

communications

comparisons

compensated

compensates

compensations

competitions

compilations

complexities

complications

computations

concedes

conceding

conceived

conceiving

concentrates

concentrating

concerns

conditions

confabulation

confessed

confesses

confessions

confidences

congratulations

connections

consciences

consents

consequences

conservatives

considerations

considers

consisted

consisting

consoled

conspired

constants

constituencies

constituents

constituted

constitutes

constituting

constitutions

constrains

constraints

constructed

constructing

constructions

consultancy

consultations

consulted

consults

consumers

consumes

contexts

contradictions

contrasted

contrasting

contributions

controversies

conveniences

conventions

conversations

convictions

convinces

coolest

corporations

corresponded

correspondents

corresponds

cosset

costa

councils

courses

coursing

crashed

crashes

crashing

creations

criminalization

crosses

cruelest

crushes

crustaceans

crystals

curses

cursing

cushions

customers

customize

cyberspace

danced

dancers

dances

darkest

dearest

deceived

deceptions

decides

deciding

decimals

decisions

declarations

decorations

deduced

deductions

deepest

defaced

deficiency

definitions

defrosting

deist

delicacies

demarcation

demolished

demonstrated

demonstrates

demonstrating

demonstrations

demonstrators

depreciated

depresses

deregulation

desalination

descended

descends

described

describes

describing

descriptions

desks

despaired

despairs

despised

destroying

destroys

devastated

deviations

devices

dictionaries

differentiates

differentiating

dimensions

diminishes

diminishing

disagreeing

disagreements

disagrees

disappointments

disappoints

disapproved

disapproves

disapproving

disassociated

disbursement

disciplines

disciplining

discontinued

discontinuing

discounter

discouraged

discoveries

discovering

discovers

discriminated

discriminates

discussed

discusses

discussing

discussions

disgorged

disheveled

disinclined

disinformation

diskette

disks

disliked

dislikes

dismissed

dismisses

dismissing

disobeyed

disobeying

disorganized

disorienting

dispiriting

displaced

displaces

displacing

displaying

displays

disposes

disposing

disqualifies

disqualifying

disregarded

disregarding

disregards

distanced

distances

distancing

distinctions

distinguishes

distorting

distortions

distorts

distresses

distributing

distributions

distributors

districts

disturbances

disturbs

disuse

domesticated

domesticating

domestics

dramatizations

dresses

dullest

dusted

dusters

earliest

editions

elapsed

elections

electricians

elicited

eliciting

elicits

embraced

emphasized

emphasizes

emphasizing

enforces

enforcing

enhances

enhancing

ensconced

entrances

entrusted

escaped

escapes

escaping

escarpments

escorted

espy

estates

estimated

estimating

estimations

etc.

ethnicity

evidenced

exacerbated

examinations

excavated

exceeded

exceeds

exceptions

exchanged

exchanging

excites

exclaimed

excluded

excludes

exclusions

excruciating

excused

executes

executing

exercised

exercises

exercising

exhaled

exhibitions

exiled

existed

expands

expectations

expecting

expediency

expenditures

expenses

experiences

experiencing

experiments

experts

expired

explained

explains

explanations

explodes

exploding

exploits

explored

explorers

explores

explosions

explosives

exported

exporting

exports

exposes

exposing

exposures

expresses

expressing

expressions

extends

extensions

extracting

extrapolated

extrapolating

extras

extravagantly

eyeglasses

eyelashes

faces

facilitated

facilitates

facilitating

facilitators

facilities

factions

faintest

fairest

fallacies

fancies

fanciest

fascinates

fashioning

fashions

fasted

fastest

fasts

feasted

feasting

federations

fenced

fences

festivals

fewest

fiercer

fiercest

financiers

finest

finishes

firmest

fishes

fittest

fixes

fixtures

flabbergasted

flashed

flashes

flexes

flexing

fluctuations

flushed

focuses

focusing

fondest

forces

foreshadow

formulations

fossilized

fossils

foundations

foxes

fractions

frequencies

fresher

freshest

frustrated

fullest

functioned

functioning

functions

funniest

furnishes

fussed

generations

gestured

gestures

glaciers

glanced

glances

globalization

graced

graces

grandest

grasped

grasps

grasses

greased

greasing

greenest

guessed

guesses

gushed

gushes

hardest

hardships

harvested

harvesting

hastened

hastens

healthiest

heaviest

hesitations

historians

hoisting

holiest

horses

hosted

hottest

households

houses

humorist

husbands

hushed

husks

hypothesized

icicles

illnesses

illustrated

illustrates

illustrating

illustrations

imaginations

imitations

impassioned

impatiens

implications

impressed

impressions

inaccuracies

inadequacies

incapacitated

incidents

inclinations

inconsistencies

indexes

indications

induces

inducing

industries

inexorably

inferences

influenced

influences

influencing

infraction

infrastructures

initiated

initiates

initiating

initiatives

initiators

innocents

insects

insecurities

inserting

insights

insisted

inspected

inspecting

inspections

inspectors

inspects

installations

installed

instances

instilled

instituted

institutes

instituting

institutionalizes

institutionalizing

institutions

instructing

instructions

instructors

instructs

instruments

insulators

insulted

insures

insuring

intensified

intensifies

intensifying

interpretations

intransigence

inventions

invested

investigated

investigates

investigations

investigators

investing

investors

invitations

islands

isolates

issued

jostled

juices

justifications

justified

justifies

juxtaposed

kindest

kissed

kisses

laces

lapsed

largest

lashed

lashes

lasted

lasts

laziest

leased

leases

legislated

legislates

legislating

legislators

lessened

lessening

lessons

licenses

licensing

lightest

likeliest

limitations

liquidation

listened

listens

littlest

liveliest

locations

longest

looses

losses

loudest

loudspeakers

lowest

luckiest

machinations

machines

mailboxes

manipulations

marshall

mashed

masks

masochistic

masquerading

massed

masses

mastered

masters

maximized

maximizes

maximizing

meanest

medicines

memberships

mentioned

mentioning

mentions

mercies

merest

messages

messengers

messes

migrations

mildest

milkshake

ministering

ministers

ministries

minuses

misadventure

misconstrued

misgiving

mishaps

misinformed

misinterpreted

misinterpreting

misjudged

mislaid

misplaced

mispronounce

misquoted

misreported

missed

misses

mistakes

mister

misused

mixes

mixing

mixtures

modifications

mollusks

monasteries

monsters

morsels

motioned

motioning

motions

motivations

Mrs.

muscles

mushrooms

musicians

mussels

mustered

mysteries

narrowest

nastier

nastiest

nations

neatest

necessities

negotiations

nested

nester

nesting

nestled

nests

newest

nicer

nicest

nieces

noblest

nonstick

noticed

notices

noticing

notions

notoriously

numismatics

nursed

nurses

obesity

objections

obligations

obscured

observations

obstacles

occupations

occurrences

oceans

offenses

offices

officials

offsets

oldest

omissions

operations

oppressed

options

organizations

ostentatiously

outsiders

outskirts

outstretch

overestimated

overestimates

overestimating

overexcited

oversaw

oxidize

oxymoron

pacified

panache

parachutes

parachuting

paradoxical

paramecium

parceled

parcels

parishes

participants

participated

participates

participating

partnerships

passages

passed

passengers

passes

passions

pasta

pastes

pencils

perceived

perceives

perceptions

performances

persisted

personalities

persons

perspectives

persuades

persuading

pests

philosophers

philosophies

pieces

pinkest

placed

places

placing

plantations

plasters

pluses

poignancy

polices

policies

policing

polishing

politicians

poorest

popsicle

populations

portions

positioning

positions

possesses

possessions

possibilities

posters

practices

practicing

precautions

precedes

predictions

preferences

prejudices

premises

preparations

pressed

presses

pressured

pressures

pressuring

prettiest

prices

pricing

principled

principles

processes

processing

processions

producers

produces

producing

professionals

professions

progressed

progressing

prohibitions

projections

promised

promises

promissory

pronounces

pronouncing

proportions

prospered

proudest

publications

publicizing

published

publishers

publishes

publishing

punished

punishes

punishing

punishments

purchased

purchasers

purchases

purest

purposes

pursues

pursuing

pursuits

pushed

pushes

qualifications

questioned

questions

quiche

quickest

quietest

quotations

raced

races

radishes

rainiest

rarest

rascals

rasped

rationalizations

rationalized

rationalizing

ratios

reactionaries

reactions

readjusted

readjusting

readjustments

realizations

reassessed

reassessing

reassigned

reassigning

reassurance

recedes

receivable

recidivism

recommendations

reconsidering

reconstructing

recycled

recycles

reddest

rediscovered

reductions

reestablish

reevaluation

reflections

refocused

refocuses

refocusing

refreshed

refreshes

refreshments

registers

regulations

reinforced

reinforcements

reinforces

reinforcing

reinvested

reinvesting

rejoiced

relations

relationships

relaxes

released

releases

releasing

replaced

replacements

replaces

replacing

representations

reproduced

reproduces

reproducing

reproductions

reputations

rescheduled

rescheduling

rescued

rescues

rescuing

researched

researchers

researches

researching

reselling

reservations

resignations

resigning

resigns

resold

resorted

resources

respondents

responsibilities

rested

restored

restores

restoring

restrains

restricting

restrictions

restricts

restructure

restructured

restructures

restructuring

rests

revelations

revolutionaries

revolutionized

revolutionizing

revolutions

richest

rightists

riposte

risked

risking

risks

roasted

roasts

roughest

rudest

rushes

rusted

rusting

ruthlessly

sacrificed

sacrifices

saddest

sadistic

safest

satisfies

saucers

sauces

scarcer

scariest

sciences

sectioned

sectioning

sections

selections

senescence

senses

sentenced

sentences

separations

sequences

sequencing

serviced

services

servicing

severest

sexes

sexism

sharpest

shoelaces

shortest

sickest

silences

silencing

simplest

sisters

situations

sixes

sixteenths

sixths

slightest

slowest

smallest

smashed

snapshots

snowstorms

societies

softest

solicited

soliciting

solutions

somersaults

soonest

sorcerer

sources

sourcing

spaces

specialties

specifications

specifics

specified

specifies

specifying

spencer

splashes

sponsored

spreadsheet

stations

statisticians

steepest

stiffest

stormiest

strangest

stresses

stressing

strictest

strongest

stupidest

submissions

subscribed

subscribes

subscribing

subsidies

subsidized

subsidizes

subsidizing

substances

substitutes

succeeded

succeeds

successes

successors

suggested

suggestions

surest

surfaces

surpassed

suspecting

suspending

suspends

suspicions

sustainability

sustains

systems

tallest

tasks

tastes

taxes

taxpayers

telescopes

tendencies

tendentious

testa

testified

testifies

testifying

tests

texts

textured

thickest

thinnest

tightest

tiniest

tossed

toughest

townhouses

traced

traces

traditions

transformations

transformed

transforms

transitions

translated

translates

translating

translations

transmissions

transporters

tribulations

trickiest

truest

trusted

trustees

trusts

tryst

tush

tusks

twists

typists

ugliest

ulster

uncertainties

underestimated

underestimating

undersell

understands

universities

unkindest

unsavory

unscathed

unseemly

unstructured

uses

ushered

utensils

vanquished

variations

vassals

verses

vessels

vibrations

violations

visitors

voices

waists

waitresses

warmest

washes

wasps

waster

wastes

waxed

waxes

wealthiest

westerns

widest

wildest

winced

wisest

wishes

witnessed

witnesses

witnessing

worshipped

worshipping

worships

wrestled

wrists

xeriscape

youngest

youngsters