7-letter words that end in a
- isadora — a female given name: derived from Isidor.
- isauria — an ancient district of S central Asia Minor, chiefly on the N slopes of the W Taurus Mountains
- ishvara — a personal and supreme god, supposed in dvaita Vedantism to be included with the world and Atman within Brahman.
- isidora — a female given name.
- isocola — a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, of similar length, as “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”.
- itabuna — a city in E Brazil.
- izakaya — A Japanese bar that also sells snacks.
- jacarta — a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java.
- jakarta — East Indies (def 1).
- jamaica — an island in the West Indies, S of Cuba. 4413 sq. mi. (11,430 sq. km).
- jambiya — an Arabian knife having a curved, double-edged blade, usually with a central rib.
- jellaba — a loose-fitting hooded gown or robe worn by men in North Africa.
- jeritza — Maria [mah-ree-ah] /mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1887–1982, Austrian operatic soprano.
- jessica — a female given name, form of Jesse.
- jihlava — a city in W Moravia, in the S central Czech Republic: former silver-mining center.
- jivatma — Hinduism. the individual soul, regarded as a particular manifestation of Atman.
- jocasta — Classical Mythology. a queen of Thebes, the wife of Laius and the mother, later the wife, of Oedipus, by whom she bore Eteocles, Polynices, and Antigone: called Epicaste by Homer.
- johanna — a female given name.
- jornada — a full day's travel across a desert without a stop for taking on water.
- juanita — a female given name.
- judaica — the literature, customs, culture, etc, of the Jews
- juliana — (Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina) 1909–2004, queen of the Netherlands 1948–80 (daughter of Wilhelmina I).
- justina — a feminine name: dim. Tina; var. Justine
- juvarra — Filippo [fee-leep-paw] /fiˈlip pɔ/ (Show IPA), 1678–1736, Italian architect.
- kabbala — Alternative spelling of Kaballah.
- kabylia — a historic and ethnic region in the north of Algeria
- kachcha — crude, imperfect, or temporary.
- kachera — short trousers traditionally worn by Sikhs as a symbol of their religious and cultural loyalty: originally worn for ease of horse riding
- kachina — any of various ancestral spirits deified by the Hopi Indians and impersonated in religious rituals by masked dancers.
- kailasa — a Brahmanical temple dedicated to Shiva, at Ellora, India: architecturally one of the finest of ancient cave temples.
- kalimba — mbira.
- kampala — an independent state in E Africa, between the NE Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya: member of the Commonwealth of Nations; formerly a British protectorate. 91,065 sq. mi. (241,068 sq. km). Capital: Kampala.
- kananga — a city in central Zaire.
- kannada — a Dravidian language spoken mainly in the state of Karnataka, in southwest India.
- kapitsa — Pyotr L(eonidovich) [pyawtr lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /pyɔtr lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.
- kapitza — Pyotr L(eonidovich) [pyawtr lyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich] /pyɔtr lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, Russian physicist: Nobel Prize 1978.
- karakia — M\u0101ori incantations and prayers, used to invoke spiritual guidance and protection.
- karanda — an Indian shrub or small tree, Carissa carandas, of the dogbane family, having white or pink flowers and reddish-black berries.
- karanga — a call or chant of welcome, sung by a female elder
- karbala — Kerbela.
- karelia — a region in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, comprising Lake Ladoga and Onega Lake and the adjoining area along the E border of Finland.
- karmapa — the head of the Kagyupa, Karma Kagyu or Black Hat sect of Tibetan Buddhism, third in importance in the hierarchy of lamas
- karvina — an industrial city in the NE Czech Republic, in N Moravia.
- kashiwa — a city in E Honshu, Japan.
- kassala — a city in the E Sudan, near Eritrea.
- kassapa — Kasyapa.
- kasyapa — an important disciple of the Buddha who called together a council of Arhats after the death of the Buddha to compose the Pali Canon.
- katanga — former name of Shaba.
- katcina — kachina.
- katorga — the system of labour camps in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, a precursor to the Gulag system