7-letter words that end in a
- corsica — an island in the Mediterranean, west of N Italy: forms, with 43 islets, a region of France; mountainous; settled by Greeks in about 560 bc; sold by Genoa to France in 1768. Capital: Ajaccio. Pop: 265 999 (2003 est). Area: 8682 sq km (3367 sq miles)
- cortina — the weblike part of certain mushrooms, which hangs from the edge of the pileus and consists of silky fibrils
- cortona — a town in central Italy, in Tuscany: Roman and Etruscan remains, 15th-century cathedral. Pop: 22 048 (2001)
- corumba — a city in W Brazil.
- corunna — La Coruña
- corvina — a marine food fish, Menticirrhus undulatus, found in Pacific waters off Mexico and California
- cosenza — a city in S Italy, in Calabria. Pop: 72 998 (2001)
- cotinga — any tropical American passerine bird of the family Cotingidae, such as the umbrella bird and the cock-of-the-rock, having a broad slightly hooked bill
- covilhã — Pero da (ˈpeːrʊ da). ?1460–?1526, Portuguese explorer, who established relations between Portugal and Ethiopia
- craiova — a city in SW Romania, on the Jiul River. Pop: 285 000 (2005 est)
- crapola — rubbish; nonsense
- crapula — Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.
- crayola — /kray-oh'l*/ A super-minicomputer or super-microcomputer that provides some reasonable percentage of supercomputer performance for an unreasonably low price. A crayola might also be a killer micro.
- cremona — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy on the River Po: noted for the manufacture of fine violins in the 16th–18th centuries. Pop: 70 887 (2001)
- criolla — a woman or girl of Spanish descent born in Spanish America
- croatia — a republic in SE Europe: settled by Croats in the 7th century; belonged successively to Hungary, Turkey, and Austria; formed part of Yugoslavia (1918–91); became independent in 1991 but was invaded by Serbia and fighting continued until 1995; involved in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1991–95); joined the European Union in 2013. Language: Croatian. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: kuna. Capital: Zagreb. Pop: 4 475 611 (2013 est). Area: 55 322 sq km (21 359 sq miles)
- cubbena — (formerly, especially in creole-speaking cultures) a name given at birth to a black child, in accordance with African customs, indicating the child's sex and the day of the week on which he or she was born, as the male and female names for Sunday (Quashee and Quasheba) Monday (Cudjo or Cudjoe and Juba) Tuesday (Cubbena and Beneba) Wednesday (Quaco and Cuba or Cubba) Thursday (Quao and Abba) Friday (Cuffee or Cuffy and Pheba or Phibbi) and Saturday (Quamin or Quame and Mimba)
- cumbria — (since 1974) a county of NW England comprising the former counties of Westmorland and Cumberland together with N Lancashire: includes the Lake District mountain area and surrounding coastal lowlands with the Pennine uplands in the extreme east. Administrative centre: Carlisle. Pop: 489 800 (2003 est). Area: 6810 sq km (2629 sq miles)
- curacoa — Dated form of cura\u00e7ao.
- curcuma — any tropical Asian tuberous plant of the genus Curcuma, such as C. longa, which is the source of turmeric, and C. zedoaria, which is the source of zedoary: family Zingiberaceae
- curiosa — curiosities
- curtana — the unpointed sword carried before an English sovereign at a coronation as an emblem of mercy
- cymatia — cymatium.
- cynthia — a feminine name: dim. Cindy
- cypsela — the dry one-seeded fruit of the daisy and related plants, which resembles an achene but is surrounded by a calyx sheath
- cystoma — a cystic tumor.
- cythera — a Greek island off the SE coast of the Peloponnese: in ancient times a centre of the worship of Aphrodite. Pop: 3354 (2001). Area: about 285 sq km (110 sq miles)
- czarina — variant spellings (esp US) of tsarina or tsaritsa
- da gama — ˈVasco1460-1524; Port. navigator: discovered the sea route around Africa to India
- daedala — either of two festivals held in ancient Boeotia in honor of the reconciliation of Hera with Zeus, one (Little Daedala) being held every 6 years, the other (Great Daedala) every 59 years.
- damiana — a small shrub native to Central and South America as well as the Caribbean: the leaves are commonly prepared in tea and consumed as an aphrodisiac
- dammara — A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia.
- daphnia — any water flea of the genus Daphnia, having a rounded body enclosed in a transparent shell and bearing branched swimming antennae
- darogha — a manager
- dasehra — a Hindu festival symbolizing the triumph of good over evil, celebrated for ten days in October.
- dataria — the papal office that assesses candidates for benefices reserved to the Holy See
- daugava — Latvian name of Dvina.
- davidia — any tree of the genus Davidia, esp Davidia involucrata, which is native to China and has white, dovelike flowers
- de sica — Vittorio (vitˈtɔːrjo). 1902–74, Italian film actor and director. His films, in the neorealist tradition, include Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1948)
- de vega — Lope [loh-pey,, -pee;; Spanish law-pe] /ˈloʊ peɪ,, -pi;; Spanish ˈlɔ pɛ/ (Show IPA), (Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) 1562–1635, Spanish dramatist and poet.
- debbora — Deborah (def 1).
- decidua — the specialized mucous membrane that lines the uterus of some mammals during pregnancy: is shed, with the placenta, at parturition
- dejecta — waste products excreted through the anus; faeces
- deledda — Grazia (ˈɡrattsja). 1875–1936, Italian novelist, noted for works, such as La Madre (1920), on peasant life in Sardinia: Nobel prize for literature 1926
- delenda — items to be deleted
- delicia — a female given name.
- deliria — Pathology. a more or less temporary disorder of the mental faculties, as in fevers, disturbances of consciousness, or intoxication, characterized by restlessness, excitement, delusions, hallucinations, etc.
- deloria — Vine, (Jr.) [vahyn] /vaɪn/ (Show IPA), 1933–2005, U.S. writer.
- derrida — Jacques. 1930–2004, French philosopher and literary critic, regarded as the founder of deconstruction: author of L'Ecriture et la différence (1967)
- deutzia — any saxifragaceous shrub of the genus Deutzia: cultivated for their clusters of white or pink spring-blooming flowers