5-letter words that end in a
- copha — A vegetable shortening made of coconut oil used in cooking.
- coppa — Capicola.
- copra — the dried, oil-yielding kernel of the coconut
- corba — Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- corea — Armando Anthony [ahr-mahn-doh] /ɑrˈmɑn doʊ/ (Show IPA), ("Chick") born 1941, U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
- coria — plural of corium.
- cosla — Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
- costa — a riblike part, such as the midrib of a plant leaf
- cotta — a short form of surplice
- couta — a type of traditional wooden sailing boat, originally used for fishing
- crema — A brownish foam that forms on the top of freshly made espresso.
- crena — a notch or indentation
- crura — the part of the leg or hind limb between the femur or thigh and the ankle or tarsus; shank.
- cubba — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- culpa — an act of neglect
- cunha — Tristão da [treesh-toun] /triʃˈtãʊ̃/ (Show IPA), 1460–1540? Portuguese navigator and explorer.
- cuppa — A cuppa is a cup of tea.
- curia — the papal court and government of the Roman Catholic Church
- dabba — (in Indian cookery) a round metal box used to transport hot food, either from home or from a restaurant, to a person's place of work
- dacca — Dhaka
- dacha — A dacha is a country house in Russia.
- dacia — an ancient region bounded by the Carpathians, the Tisza, and the Danube, roughly corresponding to modern Romania. United under kings from about 60 bc, it later contained the Roman province of the same name (about 105 to 270 ad)
- dagda — a god, the chief of the Tuatha De Danann, the father of Angus Og and Brigit, and the leader of the battle against the Fomorians.
- dagga — a local name for marijuana
- dahna — a desert area in central Saudi Arabia, to the N of the Rub` al Khali (Empty Quarter)
- damia — a spirit of fertility.
- danda — A punctuation character (\u0964) used in the Devan\u0101gar\u012b script to mark the end of a sentence.
- dania — a town in S Florida.
- danna — (obsolete slang) Shit: human feces.
- danza — A Puerto Rican music genre associated with ballroom dance.
- darpa — Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- debra — a feminine name: dim. Debbie, Debby
- decca — a British radio navigational aid by which a fix is obtained by determining phase difference between continuous-wave signals from two synchronized fixed signals.
- defra — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- deira — kingdom in present-day NE England in the 6th century a.d., merged with Bernicia to form the kingdom of Northumbria.
- delia — the recipes or style of cooking of British cookery writer Delia Smith (born 1941)
- della — a female given name, form of Delia.
- delta — A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
- derma — beef or fowl intestine used as a casing for certain dishes, esp kishke
- desna — a river in the W Russian Federation flowing S to join the Dnieper River near Kiev in Ukraine. About 500 miles (800 km) long.
- dhaka — the capital of Bangladesh, in the E central part: capital of Bengal (1608–39; 1660–1704) and of East Pakistan (1949–71); jute and cotton mills; university (1921). Pop: 12 560 000 (2005 est)
- diana — the virginal Roman goddess of the hunt and the moon
- dicta — dictum
- didna — (Scotland) did not.
- dihua — former name of Ürümqi.
- dinka — a member of a tall, pastoral people of Sudan.
- dinna — (Scotland, Geordie) do not.
- diota — a type of ancient vase with two handles
- disna — Eye dialect of doesn't.
- divna — do not