Or search: drama, famine, plague, tsunami, calamity, disaster, cataclysm, apocalypse, misfortune, visitation, catastrophe, tragicomedy
2 Syllables: SU
families, family's
3 Syllables: SUU
agonies, batteries, cavity, chastity, fallacies, fantasies, flatteries, galleries, gravity, magazines, Majesties, Majesty's, maladies, salaries, strategies, tapestries, tragedy, vanities
4 Syllables: USUU
academies, analogies, audacity, calamities, capacities, capacity, catastrophes, depravity, formalities, opacity, realities
5 Syllables: UUSUU
abnormalities, generalities, incapacity, technicalities

Found 35 words across 4 groupings.