7-letter words that end in a
- epyllia — Plural form of epyllion.
- equinia — glanders (disease)
- eretria — an ancient city in Greece, on the S coast of Euboea: founded as an Ionian colony; destroyed by the Persians in 490 bc following which it never regained its former significance
- erigena — John Scotus. ?800–?877 ad, Irish Neo-Platonist philosopher
- eritrea — a small country in NE Africa, on the Red Sea: became an Italian colony in 1890; federated with Ethiopia (1952–93); an independence movement was engaged in war with the Ethiopian government from 1961 until independence was gained in 1993; consists of hot and arid coastal lowlands, rising to the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands. Languages: Tigrinya, Arabic, English, Afar, and others. Religions: Muslim and Christian. Currency: nakfa. Capital: Asmara. Pop: 6 233 682 (2013 est). Area: 117 400 sq km (45 300 sq miles)
- erotema — a rhetorical question
- erotica — pornography
- estonia — Baltic state
- ethnica — Plural form of ethnicon.
- etruria — an ancient country of central Italy, between the Rivers Arno and Tiber, roughly corresponding to present-day Tuscany and part of Umbria
- eugenia — a plant of the clove genus Eugenia
- euglena — A green, single-celled, freshwater organism with a flagellum, sometimes forming a green scum on stagnant water.
- eulogia — blessed bread distributed to members of the congregation after the liturgy, esp to those who have not communed
- eupnoea — Alternative spelling of eupnea.
- eurasia — the continents of Europe and Asia considered as a whole
- eutaxia — the condition of being easily melted
- excreta — Waste matter discharged from the body, especially feces and urine.
- exempla — Irregular plural form of exemplum.
- exetera — Eye dialect of et cetera.
- exhedra — Alternative form of exedra.
- exotica — Objects considered strange or interesting because they are out of the ordinary, especially because they originated in a distant foreign country.
- extrema — Plural form of extremum.
- exurbia — The exurbs collectively ; the region beyond the suburbs.
- falasha — a member of an Ethiopian people who speak a Hamitic language and who practice a form of Judaism.
- falbala — a furbelow or puckered flounce for decorating dresses in the 17th century.
- falcata — A sword in pre-Roman Iberia having a concave edge on the blade.
- falcula — (plural only) The falx cerebelli.
- familia — A household or religious community under one head, regarded as a unit.
- farfara — The dried leaves of coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara), formerly used to treat bronchitis.
- farinha — Alt form farina.
- farruca — a Spanish flamenco dance.
- fascina — Plural form of fascinum.
- fashoda — a village in the SE Sudan, on the White Nile: conflict of British and French colonial interests 1898 (Fashoda Incident)
- faunula — the fauna of a small single environment
- favella — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp covered by a gelatinous envelope.
- fazenda — An estate or large farm in Portugal, Brazil, and other Portuguese-speaking countries.
- felicia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “happy.”.
- felucca — a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
- fergana — a city in E Uzbekistan, SE of Tashkent.
- fermata — the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion.
- ferrara — a city in N Italy, near the Po River: medieval university and cathedral.
- festuca — any grass of the genus Festuca, chiefly characterized by tufted blades and spikelets, comprising the fescues.
- fibroma — a tumor consisting essentially of fibrous tissue.
- filaria — any small, threadlike roundworm of the family Filariidae and related families, carried as a larva by mosquitoes and parasitic when adult in the blood or tissues of vertebrates.
- fimbria — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- fistula — Pathology. a narrow passage or duct formed by disease or injury, as one leading from an abscess to a free surface, or from one cavity to another.
- florida — a state in the SE United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. 58,560 sq. mi. (151,670 sq. km). Capital: Tallahassee. Abbreviation: FL (for use with zip code), Fla.
- florula — the flora of a small single environment
- flutina — an early type of accordion, similar in internal construction to a concertina
- foggara — An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley; a qanat.