6-letter words that end in a
- calesa — a horse drawn buggy, once common in the Philippines but now mainly used as a tourist attraction
- calima — a dust storm in the Canary Islands region, originating from the Sahara desert
- caltha — a yellow-flowered ranunculaceous plant, Caltha palustris, that grows in swampy places
- camaca — a heavy fabric of silk or mixed fibers, much used in the Middle Ages.
- cambia — a layer of delicate meristematic tissue between the inner bark or phloem and the wood or xylem, which produces new phloem on the outside and new xylem on the inside in stems, roots, etc., originating all secondary growth in plants and forming the annual rings of wood.
- camera — A camera is a piece of equipment that is used for taking photographs, making films, or producing television pictures.
- camisa — a smock or shirt
- camoca — a heavy fabric of silk or mixed fibers, much used in the Middle Ages.
- canada — a country in North America: the second largest country in the world; first permanent settlements by Europeans were made by the French from 1605; ceded to Britain in 1763 after a series of colonial wars; established as the Dominion of Canada in 1867; a member of the Commonwealth. It consists generally of sparsely inhabited tundra regions, rich in natural resources, in the north, the Rocky Mountains in the west, the Canadian Shield in the east, and vast central prairies; the bulk of the population is concentrated along the US border and the Great Lakes in the south. Languages: English and French. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: Canadian dollar. Capital: Ottawa. Pop: 34 568 211 (2013 est). Area: 9 976 185 sq km (3 851 809 sq miles)
- canara — a region in SW India, on the Deccan Plateau. About 60,000 sq. mi. (155,400 sq. km).
- cancha — toasted maize, often served as an accompaniment to Peruvian meals
- candia — Crete
- canola — Canola or canola oil is a type of vegetable oil used in cooking.
- canova — Antonio (anˈtɔːnjo). 1757–1822, Italian neoclassical sculptor
- canula — cannula.
- capita — plural of caput.
- carapa — a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, of the mahogany family.
- cardia — a lower oesophageal sphincter
- carina — a keel-like part or ridge, as in the breastbone of birds or the fused lower petals of a leguminous flower
- carola — a female given name, form of Carol.
- casaba — a kind of winter muskmelon having a yellow rind and sweet juicy flesh
- casita — a small house, esp one that functions as an inn or guest house
- cassia — any plant of the mainly tropical leguminous genus Cassia, esp C. fistula, whose pods yield cassia pulp, a mild laxative
- catena — a connected series, esp of patristic comments on the Bible
- cayuga — a member of a Native American people (one of the Iroquois peoples) formerly living around Cayuga Lake
- cedula — a form of identification, usually a card, in Spanish-speaking countries
- celaya — a city in central Mexico, in Guanajuato state: market town, famous for its sweetmeats; textile-manufacturing. Pop: 727 000 (2005 est)
- cembra — a large Swiss pine which yields nuts (cembra nuts)
- centra — a plural of centrum.
- cesena — a city in N Italy, in Emilia-Romagna. Pop: 90 948 (2001)
- cesura — caesura
- cetura — Keturah.
- chacha — A traditional clear strong liquor, sometimes called
- chacma — a baboon, Papio (or Chaeropithecus) ursinus, having coarse greyish hair and occurring in southern and eastern Africa
- chaeta — any of the chitinous bristles on the body of such annelids as the earthworm and the lugworm: used in locomotion; a seta
- chakra — (in yoga) any of the seven major energy centres in the body
- changa — an expression of approval or agreement
- chania — the chief port of Crete, on the NW coast. Pop: 82 000 (2005 est)
- channa — Alternative form of chana.
- charka — (in India and the East Indies) a cotton gin or spinning wheel.
- charta — a charter
- charva — (Geordie, pejorative) Unruly youth; disobedient child or teenager.
- chasma — (astronomy, geology) A long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a planet (other than Earth), a moon, or another body in the solar system.
- chatta — an umbrella
- cheeta — Archaic form of cheetah.
- chicha — a South American drink made from fermented maize or fruit
- chigga — a young working-class person from Hobart, Tasmania
- choana — a nasal opening situated towards the back of the nasal cavity in vertebrates
- chokra — a young male
- cholla — any of several spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia that grow in the southwestern US and Mexico and have cylindrical stem segments