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@saper
No, I wanted an awk command for two pattern-match expressions I could adapt.

In the below example, I can vary the word length by changing the digit after == in the first expression, and I can use [^aiouy] to match any consonant plus an e, place those and known consonants and es between the (/ /) to get a list of possible matches, for a crossword puzzle.

awk '(length($1) == 6) && (/s[^aiouy]ee[^aiouy]e/) { print $1 }' efile.txt

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