6-letter words that end in a
- atbara — a town in NE Sudan. Pop: 110 000 (2005 est)
- athena — a virgin goddess of wisdom, practical skills, and prudent warfare. She was born, fully armed, from the head of Zeus
- atocia — the incapability of a woman to conceive and give birth to children
- atonia — a deficiency of usual or expected tone in the muscles
- attica — a region and department of E central Greece: in ancient times the territory of Athens. Capital: Athens. Pop: 3 336 700 (2001). Area: 14 157 sq km (5466 sq miles)
- attila — ?406–453 ad, king of the Huns, who devastated much of the Roman Empire, invaded Gaul in 451 ad, but was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths at Châlons-sur-Marne
- atypia — (symptom) abnormality in a cell.
- aucuba — an ornamental evergreen Japanese laurel
- auriga — a conspicuous constellation in the N hemisphere between the Great Bear and Orion, at the edge of the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Capella and the supergiant eclipsing binary star Epsilon Aurigae
- aurora — an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands, curtains, or streamers of light, usually green, red, or yellow, that move across the sky in polar regions. It is caused by collisions between air molecules and charged particles from the sun that are trapped in the earth's magnetic field
- avania — (historical) A tax or fee imposed on foreigners under the Ottoman Empire, especially one considered to be irregular or extortionate.
- avesta — a collection of sacred writings of Zoroastrianism, including the Songs of Zoroaster
- avidya — ignorance of the identity of oneself with Brahman, resulting in imprisonment within the cycle of birth and death.
- avlona — former name of Vlorë.
- avruga — herring roe with a smoky flavour, sometimes used as a less expensive alternative to caviar
- axilla — the area on the undersurface of a bird's wing corresponding to the armpit
- ayesha — Aisha
- aymara — a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru
- azalea — An azalea is a woody plant with shiny, dark-green leaves which produces many brightly-coloured flowers in the spring.
- azalia — Archaic form of azalea.
- azania — the indigenous name applied to South Africa by indigenous black nationalists or liberationists.
- azolla — a genus of fern growing in tropical waters
- azuela — Mariano [mah-ryah-naw] /mɑˈryɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1952, Mexican physician and novelist.
- backra — a White person
- bactra — an ancient country in W Asia, between the Oxus River and the Hindu Kush Mountains. Capital: Bactra.
- baghla — an Arabian sailing vessel, having lugsails on two or three masts, a straight, raking stem, and a transom stern.
- bajada — a scrummaging technique, developed in Argentina, in which all eight forwards in a pack drive forward low and hard
- balata — a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, yielding a latex-like sap
- balboa — Vasco Núñez de (ˈbasko ˈnuɲeθ de). ?1475–1519, Spanish explorer, who discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513
- balewa — Sir Abubakar Tafawa [ah-boo-bah-kahr tah-fah-wah,, ah-boo-bah-kahr] /ˌɑ buˈbɑ kɑr tɑˈfɑ wɑ,, ɑˈbu bɑˌkɑr/ (Show IPA), 1912–66, Nigerian statesman: prime minister 1957–66.
- baluba — (Ireland) Unruly or wild person.
- banaba — an island in the SW Pacific, in the Republic of Kiribati. Phosphates were mined by Britain (1900–79). Area: about 5 sq km (2 sq miles). Pop: 301 (2005)
- banana — Bananas are long curved fruit with yellow skins.
- bangka — an island in Indonesia, separated from Sumatra by the Bangka Strait. Chief town: Pangkalpinang. Area: about 11 914 sq km (4600 sq miles)
- baniya — Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
- baraka — Imamu Amiri [ih-mah-moo uh-meer-ee] /ɪˈmɑ mu əˈmɪər i/ (Show IPA), (Everett LeRoi Jones) 1934–2014, U.S. dramatist, poet, and political activist.
- baraza — a place where public meetings are held
- barkla — Charles Glover. 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917
- baroda — a former state of W India, part of Gujarat since 1960
- baroja — Pio (ˈpio). 1872–1956, Spanish Basque novelist, who wrote nearly 100 novels, including a series of twenty-two under the general title Memorias de un Hombre de Acción (1944–49)
- baruta — a city in N Venezuela: a suburb of Caracas.
- baryta — any of several compounds of barium, esp. barium oxide and barium hydroxide
- bastia — a port in NE Corsica: the main commercial and industrial town of the island: capital of Haute-Corse department. Pop: 43 315 (2007)
- batata — a type of tropical sweet potato, Batatas edulis, somewhat dry and delicate in flavor.
- batida — A Brazilian cocktail made from cachaça, fruit juice, and sugar.
- bauera — any small evergreen Australian shrub of the genus Bauera, having pink or purple flowers
- befana — (in Italian folklore) an ugly good fairy who brings gifts to good children on Epiphany eve
- beflea — to infest with fleas
- bejaïa — seaport in NE Algeria, on the Mediterranean: pop. 115,000
- belaya — a river in S Russia, flowing generally NW from the Urals to the Kama River. 880 miles (1416 km) long.