9-letter words containing ara
- inveraray — a town in W Scotland, in Argyll and Bute: Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Dukes of Argyll. Pop: about 700 (2001)
- jacaranda — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Jacaranda, of the catalpa family, having showy clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- karabiner — a D -shaped ring with a spring catch on one side, used for fastening ropes in mountaineering.
- karaganda — a city in central Kazakhstan.
- karakoram — Also called Mustagh. a mountain range in NW India, in N Kashmir. Highest peak, K2, 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- karakorum — a ruined city in central Mongolian People's Republic: capital of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
- karankawa — a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians who lived in southeastern Texas until the mid 19th century.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- karatekas — Plural form of karateka.
- kharagpur — city in SW West Bengal, India: pop. 265,000
- kumarahou — a shrub, Pomaderris kumeraho, found in the north of New Zealand's North Island, the flowers of which produce a soap-like lather when rubbed
- maharajah — (formerly) a ruling prince in India, especially of one of the major states.
- maharajas — Plural form of maharaja.
- maharanee — (formerly) the wife of a maharajah.
- maharanis — Plural form of maharani.
- marabouts — Plural form of marabout.
- marabunta — A large population of army ants on the move, eating anything in their wake.
- maracaibo — a seaport in NW Venezuela.
- maracanda — ancient name of Samarkand.
- maranatha — a curse or exclamation
- marasmoid — Resembling or characteristic of marasmus.
- marathons — Plural form of marathon.
- marauders — Plural form of marauder.
- marauding — engaged in raiding for plunder, especially roaming about and ravaging an area: marauding bands of outlaws.
- maravedis — Plural form of maravedi.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mascaraed — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- mozarabic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the Mozarabs: Mozarabic culture.
- multipara — a woman who has borne two or more children, or who is parturient for the second time.
- nagyvarad — Hungarian name of Oradea.
- navaratri — an annual Hindu festival celebrated over nine days in September–October. Observed throughout India, it commemorates the slaying of demons by Rama and the goddess Durga; in some places it is dedicated to all female deities
- nicaragua — a republic in Central America. 57,143 sq. mi. (148,000 sq. km). Capital: Managua.
- nonarable — (of land) not arable or suitable for farming
- nullipara — a woman who has never borne a child.
- on parade — on display
- paparazzi — a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
- paparazzo — a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
- para-bola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- parabasis — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode addressed to the audience, especially of comedy, and independent of the action of the play: usually following the agon and, in the earliest forms of comedy, serving often to end the play.
- parablast — the nutritive yolk of a meroblastic ovum or egg.
- parabolic — of, relating to, or involving a parable.
- parabrake — parachute brake.
- parachute — a folding, umbrellalike, fabric device with cords supporting a harness or straps for allowing a person, object, package, etc., to float down safely through the air from a great height, especially from an aircraft, rendered effective by the resistance of the air that expands it during the descent and reduces the velocity of its fall.
- paraclete — an advocate or intercessor.
- paracrine — relating to a hormone whose release only affects tissue surrounding the gland that secreted it
- paracusia — defective hearing.
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- paradisal — paradisiacal.
- paradoxal — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.