7-letter words that end in a
- hetaera — a highly cultured courtesan or concubine, especially in ancient Greece.
- hetaira — hetaera.
- hexapla — an edition of a book, especially the Old Testament, containing six versions or texts in parallel columns, especially the edition compiled by Origen.
- hidalga — Spanish noblewoman
- hidatsa — a member of a Siouan people dwelling on the Missouri River.
- hiiumaa — an island in the Baltic, W of and belonging to Estonia. 373 sq. mi. (965 sq. km).
- himalia — a small natural satellite of the planet Jupiter.
- himatia — a garment consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth thrown over the left shoulder and wrapped about the body.
- hiva oa — a volcanic island in the South Pacific, in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. 77 sq. mi. (200 sq. km).
- hobbema — Meindert [mahyn-duh rt] /ˈmaɪn dərt/ (Show IPA), 1638–1709, Dutch painter.
- hodeida — a city in W Yemen, on the Red Sea.
- homepna — Home Phoneline Networking Alliance
- honiara — (used with a plural verb) an archipelago in the W Pacific Ocean, E of New Guinea; important World War II battles; politically divided between Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
- hosanna — a cry of “hosanna.”.
- hotjava — (web) A modular, extensible web browser from Sun Microsystems that can execute programs written in the Java programming language. These programs, known as "applets", can be included (like images) in HTML pages. Because Java programs are compiled into machine independent bytecodes, applets can run on any platform on which HotJava runs - currently (December 1995) SPARC/Solaris 2 and Intel 80x86/Windows 95, Windows NT.
- houbara — a bustard, Chlamydotis undulata, of northern Africa and western Asia, having long black and white plumes on each side of the neck.
- hryvnia — The currency of Ukraine, symbol ₴, divided into 100 kopiykas.
- hygieia — the ancient Greek goddess of health.
- hygroma — a swelling in the soft tissue that occurs over a joint, usually caused by repeated injury
- hypatia — a.d. c370–415, Greek philosopher renowned for her beauty.
- hyphema — hemorrhage in the anterior chamber of the eye, usually caused by trauma.
- hypogea — Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- hypoxia — inadequate oxygenation of the blood.
- iacocca — Lee (Lido Anthony) born 1924, U.S. automobile executive.
- iapigia — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- idumaea — Greek name of Edom.
- ignatia — a dried seed of the plant Strychnos ignatii, used as a homeopathic remedy
- ikebana — the Japanese art of arranging flowers.
- iliamna — a lake in SW Alaska: the largest lake in Alaska. Length: about 130 km (80 miles). Width: 40 km (25 miles)
- illuvia — the material accumulated through illuviation.
- illyria — an ancient country along the E coast of the Adriatic.
- imperia — a seaport in NW Italy.
- impresa — a device or emblem.
- in gala — in festive dress
- indiana — Robert (Robert Clarke) born 1928, U.S. painter of pop art.
- indicia — indicia (def 2).
- indusia — Botany, Mycology. any of several structures having a netlike or skirtlike shape, as the membranous overgrowth covering the sori in ferns.
- inedita — Unpublished literary works.
- inertia — inertness, especially with regard to effort, motion, action, and the like; inactivity; sluggishness.
- infanta — a daughter of the king of Spain or of Portugal.
- infauna — the aggregate of animals that burrow into and live in the bottom deposits of an ocean, river, or lake.
- ingesta — Material introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal.
- injuria — (legal) injury; invasion of another's rights.
- inkatha — a South African Zulu organization founded by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi in 1975 as a paramilitary group seeking nonracial democracy; won four seats in South Africa's first nonracial elections in 1994
- inocula — the substance used to make an inoculation.
- insecta — the class comprising the insects.
- intrada — an introductory piece of music; prelude
- inyanga — (Africa) In Zulu communities, a traditional doctor or healer.
- ipomoea — any plant belonging to the genus Ipomoea, of the morning glory family, certain species of which are cultivated for their large, showy flowers.
- isabela — a city in NW Puerto Rico.