7-letter words that end in a
- chiasma — the cross-shaped connection produced by the crossing over of pairing chromosomes during meiosis
- chibcha — a member of a South American Indian people that lived in central Colombia and had a highly developed civilization
- chicana — A Chicana is an American girl or woman whose family originally came from Mexico.
- chikara — the attribute of might or force
- chiluba — Frederick, 1943–2011, president of Zambia 1991–2002.
- chimera — A chimera is an unrealistic idea that you have about something or a hope that you have that is unlikely to be fulfilled.
- chindia — China and India considered together in economic and strategic terms
- chingma — the fiber of the Indian mallow.
- cholera — Cholera is a serious disease that often kills people. It is caused by drinking infected water or by eating infected food.
- cholula — a town in S Mexico, in Puebla state: ancient ruins, notably a pyramid, 53 m (177 ft) high. Pop: 82 964 (2005)
- chuleta — a cutlet or chop.
- chutzpa — unmitigated effrontery or impudence; gall.
- ciboria — Plural form of ciborium.
- cienaga — a city in N Colombia, on the SE coast of the Caribbean Sea.
- cienega — a swamp or marsh, especially one formed and fed by springs.
- ciliata — the class comprising the ciliate protozoans, considered as belonging in the kingdom Animalia.
- cilicia — an ancient region and former kingdom of SE Asia Minor, between the Taurus Mountains and the Mediterranean: corresponds to the region around present-day Adana
- cimelia — treasures
- cinerea — the grey matter of the brain and nervous system
- cithara — a stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece and elsewhere, similar to the lyre and played with a plectrum
- clarkia — any North American onagraceous plant of the genus Clarkia: cultivated for their red, purple, or pink flowers
- claudia — a feminine name
- clavola — the terminal, enlarged, usually club-shaped portion of a capitate, lamellate, or clavate antenna.
- coagula — any coagulated mass; precipitate; clump; clot.
- cochlea — The cochlea is the spiral-shaped part of the inner ear.
- codeina — a white, crystalline, slightly bitter alkaloid, C 18 H 21 NO 3 , obtained from opium, used in medicine chiefly as an analgesic or sedative and to inhibit coughing.
- codetta — a short coda
- codilla — the coarse parts of flax and hemp
- coimbra — a city in central Portugal: capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260; seat of the country's oldest university. Pop: 148 474 (2001)
- colonia — in Mexico, a neighborhood, district, or suburb of a city
- colonna — Cape. Sounion, Cape.
- colpoda — any ciliated protozoan of the genus Colpoda, common in fresh water.
- columba — as in Alpha Columbae. a small constellation in the S hemisphere south of Orion
- comitia — an ancient Roman assembly that elected officials and exercised judicial and legislative authority
- condela — Connection Definition Language
- conidia — (in fungi) an asexual spore formed by abstriction at the top of a hyphal branch.
- copaiba — a transparent yellowish viscous oleoresin obtained from certain tropical South American trees of the leguminous genus Copaifera: used in varnishes and ointments
- copaiva — Alternative form of copaiba.
- coppola — Francis Ford. born 1939, US film director. His films include The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979), Tucker (1988), and The Rainmaker (1997)
- coquina — a soft limestone consisting of shells, corals, etc, that occurs in parts of the US
- corbina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- corcyra — Corfu
- cordoba — standard monetary unit of Nicaragua
- cordova — Córdoba
- corella — any of certain white Australian cockatoos of the genus Kakatoe
- coremia — the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, consisting of a loosely bound bundle of conidiophores.
- corizza — Italian name of Korçë.
- corolla — the petals of a flower collectively, forming an inner floral envelope
- corpora — Corpora is a plural of corpus.
- corrida — a public program in which a series of bullfights, usually six, are held