15-letter words that end in a
- crimson rosella — an Australian parrot, Platycercus elegans, often kept as a cage bird
- crunchy granola — crisp; brittle.
- crunchy-granola — characterized by or defining oneself by ecological awareness, liberal political views, and support or use of natural products and health foods.
- cryoanaesthesia — Alternative spelling of cryoanesthesia.
- designated area — specified
- detached retina — a retina that is separated from the choroid layer of the eyeball to which it is normally attached, resulting in loss of vision in the affected part
- deus ex machina — (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the plot
- diadochokinesia — the normal ability to perform rapidly alternating muscular movements, as flexion and extension.
- disjecta membra — scattered fragments, esp parts taken from a writing or writings
- distressed area — a region so severely damaged by a flood, hurricane, or other natural catastrophe that its inhabitants need food, clothing, shelter, and economic aid from national charities or the federal government.
- dumbbell nebula — the planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, which in photographs appears to have the shape of a dumbbell.
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- dysmorphophobia — an obsessive fear that one's body, or any part of it, is repulsive or may become so
- east massapequa — a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
- eastern rumelia — an autonomous province in the Balkan peninsula, part of the Ottoman Empire, ceded in 1885 to Bulgaria
- eclipse scotoma — a blind spot; a permanent or temporary area of depressed or absent vision caused by viewing the sun directly
- electron camera — a camera which uses electron beams, esp a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
- eleutherophobia — the fear of freedom
- emission nebula — a type of nebula that emits visible radiation
- epikeratophakia — The surgical correction of aphakia. It is a refractive surgical procedure in which a donor cornea is transplanted to the anterior surface of the patient's cornea. A lamellar disc from a donor cornea is placed over the de-epithelialized host cornea and sutured into a prepared groove on the host cornea.
- erythromelalgia — A rare neurovascular peripheral pain disorder in which blood vessels, usually in the lower extremities or hands, are episodically blocked, then become hyperemic and inflamed.
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- fanconi anaemia — a rare genetic disorder that can cause bone marrow failure, leukaemia, and tumours
- finite automata — Finite State Machine
- galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
- gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
- gaudier-brzeska — Henri (ɑ̃ri), original name Henri Gaudier. 1891–1915, French vorticist sculptor
- glass harmonica — a musical instrument composed of a set of graduated, revolving glass bowls, the rims of which are moistened and set in vibration by friction from the fingertips.
- great barracuda — a large barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, of Atlantic and western Pacific seas.
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- haemoglobinuria — the presence of haemoglobin in the urine
- hemangiosarcoma — A fast-growing, highly invasive variety of cancer, a sarcoma arising from the lining of blood vessels, occurring almost exclusively in dogs and rarely in cats.
- hematoporphyria — porphyria.
- henrietta maria — 1609–69, queen of England (1625–49), the wife of Charles I; daughter of Henry IV of France. Her Roman Catholicism contributed to the unpopularity of the crown in the period leading to the Civil War
- hepatocarcinoma — (pathology) cancer of the liver.
- homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.
- hyperanakinesia — abnormally active mechanical movement, especially of the stomach or intestine.
- hypercalcinuria — Condition of high levels of calcium in the urine as caused by high levels of bone resorption seen in osteoporosis or hyperthyroidism.
- hyperlipidaemia — Alternative spelling of hyperlipidemia.
- hyperlipoidemia — An abnormally high level of lipoids in the blood.
- hyperpotassemia — hyperkalemia.
- hypoalbuminemia — an abnormally small quantity of albumin in the blood.
- hypochlorhydria — (pathology) The presence of an insufficient amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
- hypoinsulinemia — (medicine) An abnormally low level of insulin in the blood.
- hypomagnesaemia — the condition of having too little magnesium in the blood, particularly in cattle, in which it is also known as lactation tetany
- hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
- ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
- in rerum natura — in the nature of things