7-letter words containing ala
- falasha — a member of an Ethiopian people who speak a Hamitic language and who practice a form of Judaism.
- falbala — a furbelow or puckered flounce for decorating dresses in the 17th century.
- galabia — djellabah.
- galagos — Plural form of galago.
- galahad — Sir Arthurian Romance. the noblest and purest knight of the Round Table, son of Lancelot and Elaine: gained the Holy Grail.
- galatea — a sea nymph who was the lover of Acis.
- galatia — an ancient country in central Asia Minor: later a Roman province; site of an early Christian community.
- halabja — a Kurdish town in NE Iraq; in March 1998 Iraqi forces used poison gas on the population, killing hundreds of civilians. Pop: estimates vary between 45 000 and 80 000
- halacha — Halakhah.
- halakah — Halakhah.
- halakha — any of the laws or ordinances not written down in the Jewish Scriptures but based on an oral interpretation of them
- halalah — halala.
- halavah — halvah.
- harmala — a perennial plant native to Europe and Asia Minor, characterized by its white flowers and round seed capsules
- impalas — Plural form of impala.
- in gala — in festive dress
- jalapin — a resin that is one of the purgative principles of jalap.
- kabbala — Alternative spelling of Kaballah.
- kampala — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- karbala — Kerbela.
- kassala — a city in the E Sudan, near Eritrea.
- khalasi — An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
- laaland — an island in SE Denmark, S of Zealand. 495 sq. mi. (1280 sq. km).
- lauhala — Pandanus tectorius, a tree common in Hawaii, also known as the screwpine.
- lingala — a Bantu language used as a lingua franca in the N Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- lualaba — a river in the SE Democratic Republic of the Congo: a headstream of the Congo (Zaire) River. 400 miles (645 km) long.
- machala — a city in SW Ecuador.
- magdala — an ancient town in Palestine, W of the Sea of Galilee: supposed home of Mary Magdalene.
- malacca — a state in Malaysia, on the SW Malay Peninsula: formerly a part of the British Straits Settlements and of the Federation of Malaya. 640 sq. mi. (1658 sq. km).
- malachi — a Minor Prophet of the 5th century b.c.
- malachy — Saint. 1094–1148, Irish prelate; he became Archbishop of Armagh (1132) and founded (1142) the first Cistercian abbey in Ireland. Feast day: Nov 3
- malacia — softening, or loss of consistency, of an organ or tissue.
- malaco- — denoting softness
- malaise — a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.
- malakal — a city in E Sudan, on the White Nile.
- malamud — Bernard, 1914–86, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- malanga — a thick, fleshy-leaved South American plant, Xanthosoma atrovirens, of the arum family, having leaves up to 3 feet (90 cm) long and nearly 2 feet (60 cm) wide.
- malange — a city in N Angola.
- malanje — a city in N Angola.
- mälaren — Lake, a lake in S Sweden, extending W from Stockholm. 440 sq. mi. (1140 sq. km).
- malaria — Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
- malarky — speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey.
- malatya — a city in central Turkey.
- malayan — of or relating to Malaya or its inhabitants
- malayo- — Malay and
- mancala — (games, board games) A generic name applied to various board games in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
- mandala — Oriental Art. a schematized representation of the cosmos, chiefly characterized by a concentric configuration of geometric shapes, each of which contains an image of a deity or an attribute of a deity.
- marsala — a seaport in W Sicily.
- oxalate — any salt or ester of oxalic acid, occurring in plants, especially spinach, rhubarb, and certain other vegetables and nuts, and capable of forming an insoluble salt with calcium and interfering with its absorption by the body.
- palabra — a word.