7-letter words that end in a
- katrina — a female given name, form of Katherine.
- katsina — Alternative form of kachina.
- katsura — An ornamental eastern Asian tree that has leaves that resemble those of the Judas tree and light, fine-grained timber.
- kaupapa — A principle or policy.
- kavalla — a seaport in E Greece.
- keitloa — a variety of the black rhinoceros having the posterior horn equal to or longer than the anterior horn.
- kelowna — a city in S British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- kenitra — a port in NW Morocco, NE of Rabat.
- kenosha — a port in SE Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- kerbaya — a blouse worn by Malay women
- kerbela — a town in central Iraq: holy city of the Shiʿite sect.
- kérkira — Corfu
- kerkyra — Greek name of Corfu.
- kerugma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- kerygma — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- khalifa — caliph.
- khalkha — a Mongolian language that is the official language of the Mongolian People's Republic and the chief vernacular of the eastern half of the country.
- khediva — the wife of a khedive
- khorana — Har Gobind [hahr goh-bind] /hɑr ˈgoʊ bɪnd/ (Show IPA), 1922–2011, U.S. biochemist and researcher in genetics, born in India: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.
- kia ora — greetings! good luck!
- kibitka — A circular tent used by various nomadic peoples such as the Kalmyks and Kyrgyz.
- kiepura — Jan (Wiktor) [yahn vik-tawr] /yɑn ˈvɪk tɔr/ (Show IPA), 1904?–66, Polish tenor.
- kilauea — a crater on Mauna Loa volcano, on SE Hawaii island, in Hawaii. 2 miles (3.2 km) wide; 4040 feet (1231 meters) high.
- kisetla — a pidgin language based on Swahili, formerly used for communication between Europeans and Africans.
- kithara — a musical instrument of ancient Greece consisting of an elaborate wooden soundbox having two arms connected by a yoke to which the upper ends of the strings are attached.
- kíthira — a Greek island in the Mediterranean, S of Peloponnesus: site of former ancient temple of Aphrodite. 108 sq. mi. (280 sq. km).
- kiwiana — collectable objects, ornaments, etc, esp dating from the 1950s or 1960s, relating to the history or popular culture of New Zealand
- koekoea — a common New Zealand cuckoo, Eudynamis taitensis, found in forest areas
- kokkola — a seaport in E Finland, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- kolkata — a seaport in and the capital of West Bengal state, in E India, on the Hugli River: former capital of British India.
- kolomna — a city in the W Russian Federation in Europe, SE of Moscow.
- kopiyka — A monetary unit of Ukraine, equal to one-hundredth of a hryvna.
- krajina — a largely Serbian region in S Croatia, bordering on W Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- krishna — Hinduism. an avatar of Vishnu and one of the most popular of Indian deities, who appears in the Bhagavad-Gita as the teacher of Arjuna.
- kumbaya — The title of the etymological folk song, used with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm to refer to the song's evocations of spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony.
- kundera — Milan, born 1929, Czech-born novelist resident in France.
- kwanzaa — a harvest festival celebrated from Dec. 26th until Jan. 1st in some African-American communities.
- kythera — Cythera
- la mesa — a city in SW California.
- la nina — a cool ocean current that develops off the coast of Ecuador and Peru, sometimes following an El Niño but causing nearly the opposite extreme weather conditions.
- la raza — la, (sometimes initial capital letters) Mexican Spanish. la raza.
- labella — the petal of an orchid that differs more or less markedly from the other petals, often forming the most conspicuous part; the lip.
- lacerta — a small faint constellation in the N hemisphere, part of which is crossed by the Milky Way, lying between Cygnus and Andromeda
- lacinia — Botany. a jagged or irregular part of a leaf or petal.
- laconia — an ancient country in the S part of Greece. Capital: Sparta.
- lambada — a Brazilian ballroom dance for couples, with gyrating movements and close interlocking of the partners.
- lamella — a thin plate, scale, membrane, or layer, as of bone, tissue, or cell walls.
- lametta — Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.
- langaha — a small genus of lamprophiid snake of the subfamily Pseudoxyrhophiinae that are native to Madagascar
- lantana — any of numerous chiefly tropical plants belonging to the genus Lantana, of the verbena family, certain species of which, as L. camara, are cultivated for their aromatic flowers of yellow and orange or blue and violet.