According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern -I-IT---E. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter I and 4th letter I and 5th letter T and 9th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

limitable

militance

visitable

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern -I--T--CE. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter I and 5th letter T and 8th letter C and 9th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

cicatrice

lightface

militance

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 3 words with the pattern -I--T-NC-. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter I and 5th letter T and 7th letter N and 8th letter C. In alphabetical order, they are:

dilatancy

militance

militancy

The Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, for which Buchanan had secretly lobbied and which denied Congress's power to ban slavery in the western territories, unleashed an unprecedented wave of anger in the North. When Buchanan supported pro-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory, that anger rose to a fever pitch. In response, the South's militance in defense of slavery waxed ever stronger, and by the end of Buchanan's term, the long-feared specter of war between the two sections was turning into a reality.

According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 13 words with the pattern M-L-T----. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter M and 3rd letter L and 5th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

malathion

malsticks

melatonin

militance

militancy

militants

militaria

militated

militates

milktoast

milltails

mulattoes

muleteers