According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern ----M--CE. That is, nine letter words with 5th letter M and 8th letter C and 9th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

ecommerce

intumesce

vehemence

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern ---U--S-E. That is, nine letter words with 4th letter U and 7th letter S and 9th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

acquiesce

intumesce

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern ----ME-CE. That is, nine letter words with 5th letter M and 6th letter E and 8th letter C and 9th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

ecommerce

intumesce

vehemence

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 10 words with the pattern I-T---S--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter I and 3rd letter T and 7th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are:

icteruses

interesse

interests

intimisms

intimiste

intimists

intrinsic

intumesce

iotacisms

isthmuses

According to most common use dictionaries, the noun form of the word "bulge," synonyms would be words such as "swelling, bump, lump, protuberance, prominence, tumescence." For more informal usage, "surge, upsurge, rise, increase, escalation."

For the verb form of the word "bulge," the some appropriate synonyms would be "swell, stick out, puff out, balloon (out), bug out, fill out, belly, distend, tumefy, intumesce, project, protrude, stand out.