7-letter words containing ara
- carrara — a town in NW Italy, in NW Tuscany: famous for its marble. Pop: 65 034 (2001)
- cascara — a shrub or small tree, Rhamnus purshiana of NW North America, whose bark is a source of cascara sagrada: family Rhamnaceae
- charact — a letter, character, or symbol impressed or engraved upon something
- charade — If you describe someone's actions as a charade, you mean that their actions are so obviously false that they do not convince anyone.
- chikara — the attribute of might or force
- cithara — a stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece and elsewhere, similar to the lyre and played with a plectrum
- clarain — one of the four major lithotypes of banded coal
- dammara — A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia.
- earache — pain in the ear; otalgia.
- exarate — (of the pupa of such insects as ants and bees) having the legs, wings, antennae, etc, free and movable
- faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- faradic — of or relating to a discontinuous, asymmetric, alternating current from the secondary winding of an induction coil.
- faraway — distant; remote: faraway lands.
- farfara — The dried leaves of coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), formerly used to treat bronchitis.
- ferrara — a city in N Italy, near the Po River: medieval university and cathedral.
- foggara — An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.
- garaged — Simple past tense and past participle of garage.
- garages — Plural form of garage.
- garagey — Resembling garage music (amateur guitar rock).
- guarana — a woody, climbing shrub Paullinia cupana, of the soapberry family, growing in parts of South America, having seeds that contain caffeine and are used in soft drinks.
- guarani — a member of an Indian people now living principally in Paraguay.
- guevara — Ernesto [er-nes-taw] /ɛrˈnɛs tɔ/ (Show IPA), ("Che") 1928–67, Cuban revolutionist and political leader, born in Argentina.
- gujarat — a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
- haftara — haphtara
- harahan — a town in SE Louisiana.
- harappa — a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
- honiara — (used with a plural verb) an archipelago in the W Pacific Ocean, E of New Guinea; important World War II battles; politically divided between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
- houbara — a bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, of northern Africa and western Asia, having long black and white plumes on each side of the neck.
- ibaraki — a prefecture in central Honshu, Japan.
- igarapé — (in Brazil) a route that is navigable by canoes
- ishvara — a personal and supreme god, supposed in dvaita Vedantism to be included with the world and Atman within Brahman.
- kanarak — a village in E Odisha, in E India: site of the famous Black Pagoda.
- karachi — a former province of Pakistan, in the lower Indus valley; now part of West Pakistan. 48,136 sq. mi. (125,154 sq. km). Capital: Karachi.
- karahis — Plural form of karahi.
- karaism — the beliefs and doctrines of the Karaite sect
- karaite — a member of a sect, founded in Persia in the 8th century a.d. by the religious leader Anan ben David, that rejected the Talmud and the teachings of the rabbis in favor of strict adherence to the Bible as the only source of Jewish law and practice.
- karajan — Herbert von [hur-bert von;; German her-buh rt fuh n] /ˈhɜr bərt vɒn;; German ˈhɛr bərt fən/ (Show IPA), 1908–1989, Austrian conductor.
- karakia — M\u0101ori incantations and prayers, used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection.
- karakul — one of an Asian breed of sheep having curly fleece that is black in the young and brown or gray in the adult: raised especially for lambskins used in the fur industry. Compare broadtail, Persian lamb.
- karanda — an Indian shrub or small tree, Carissa carandas, of the dogbane family, having white or pink flowers and reddish-black berries.
- karanga — a call or chant of welcome, sung by a female elder
- karaoke — an act of singing along to a music video, especially one from which the original vocals have been electronically eliminated.
- kithara — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- konarak — a village in E Odisha, in E India: site of the famous Black Pagoda.
- laramie — a city in SE Wyoming.
- mampara — a foolish person; idiot
- marabou — any of three large storks of the genus Leptoptilus, of Africa or the East Indies, having soft, downy feathers under the wings and tail that are used for making a furlike trimming for women's hats and garments.
- maracas — a gourd or a gourd-shaped rattle filled with seeds or pebbles and used, often in a pair, as a rhythm instrument.
- maracay — a city in NE Venezuela, SW of Caracas.
- maranon — a river in Peru, flowing N and then E, joining the Ucayali to form the Amazon. 1000 miles (1600 km) long.