14-letter words that end in a
- chondrosarcoma — A type of bone cancer, a cartilage-based tumour.
- chromatophilia — chromophilia.
- ciudad guayana — an industrial conurbation in E Venezuela, on the River Orinoco: iron and steel processing, gold mining. Pop: 807 000 (2005 est)
- clacton-on-sea — a town on the North Sea coast in Essex, England.
- claustrophilia — abnormal pleasure derived from being in a confined space
- claustrophobia — Someone who suffers from claustrophobia feels very uncomfortable or anxious when they are in small or enclosed places.
- compact camera — a simple 35 mm snapshot camera not having interchangeable lenses or through-the-lens focusing but sometimes having automatic focusing, exposure, and winding
- computerphobia — the fear or dislike of computers
- concanavalin a — a lectin isolated from jack bean that agglutinates red blood cells, human cancer cells, etc. and causes resting cells to divide: used to stimulate or test the activity of certain cells, as T cells
- corona radiata — the layer of follicle cells surrounding an ovum and remaining attached to it following ovulation.
- crimen injuria — an action that injures the dignity of another person, esp use of racially offensive language
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.
- cryptosporidia — Plural form of cryptosporidium.
- cubic zirconia — a synthetic crystalline compound of zirconium oxide, fashioned to resemble diamonds, etc.
- cutis anserina — goose bumps.
- czechoslovakia — a former republic in central Europe: formed after the defeat of Austria-Hungary (1918) as a nation of Czechs in Bohemia and Moravia and Slovaks in Slovakia; occupied by Germany from 1939 until its liberation by the Soviet Union in 1945; became a people's republic under the Communists in 1948; invaded by Warsaw Pact troops in 1968, ending Dubček's attempt to liberalize communism; in 1989 popular unrest led to the resignation of the politburo and the formation of a non-Communist government. It consisted of two federal republics, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which separated in 1993
- deep-pan pizza — a pizza with a thicker base than standard
- depressed area — a region where unemployment and a low standard of living prevail.
- dermatographia — a common medical condition in which lightly rubbing the skin produces red, often raised, temporary marks
- diadokokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
- digital camera — a camera that records images in digital form by means of a device that converts the optical image to an electrical signal.
- dog-day cicada — any of several cicadas of the genus Tibicen, that have distinctive songs commonly heard during July and August.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- driftless area — a tract of land that was once surrounded but never covered by a continental glacier, consequently having no glacial deposits.
- east china sea — a part of the N Pacific, bounded by China, Japan, the Ryukyus, and Taiwan. 480,000 sq. mi. (1,243,200 sq. km).
- edging lobelia — a trailing lobelia, Lobelia erinus, of southern Africa, having loose clusters of blue flowers.
- elegiac stanza — a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- emilia-romagna — a region of N central Italy, on the Adriatic: rises from the plains of the Po valley in the north to the Apennines in the south. Capital: Bologna. Pop: 4 030 220 (2003 est). Area: 22 123 sq km (8628 sq miles)
- endomycorrhiza — (ecology) A form of mycorrhiza in which the hyphae of the fungus penetrate the root cells.
- enterobacteria — (microbiology) Plural form of enterobacterium.
- exempli gratia — for the sake of example
- eyre peninsula — a peninsula of South Australia, between the Great Australian Bight and Spencer Gulf
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fiesta taurina — fiesta de toros.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- french oceania — former name of French Polynesia.
- frenet formula — one of a set of formulas for finding the curvature and torsion of a plane or space curve in terms of vectors tangent or normal to the curve.
- garda síochána — the police force of the Republic of Ireland
- godoy alcayaga — Lucila [Spanish loo-see-lah] /Spanish luˈsi lɑ/ (Show IPA) real name of Gabriela Mistral.
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
- gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
- gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
- hakuna mathata — no problem
- hamilcar barca — c270–228 b.c, Carthaginian general and statesman (father of Hannibal).
- hasta la vista — so long; (I'll) see you again
- hastings banda — Hastings Kamuzu [kah-moo-zoo] /kɑˈmu zu/ (Show IPA), 1906–97, Malawi physician, political leader, and public official: 1st president of Malawi 1966–94.
- hemoglobinuria — the presence of hemoglobin pigment in the urine.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.