strengths
pedophile
Wonderful is a nine letter word. It begins with the letter w and ends with l.
Ballerina is one 9-letter word beginning with B and ending with A.
testimony
She begins the novel at six and ends at nine.
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backtrack
The word most commonly referred to as the longest single-syllable word is screeched, nine letters, but there are in fact several other nine-letter single-syllable words out there, such as scrunched, or strengths.
The only nine letter word which ends with the letters -lto is "contralto".
privatize privation
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern A---I---A. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter A and 5th letter I and 9th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: aubrietia