8-letter words that end in a
- furcraea — a member of a genus of succulent plants of the family Agavaceae native to tropical parts of Central and South America
- furigana — (human language, Japanese) (Or "rubi") Small hiragana, written above kanji (and these days sometimes above Latin characters) as a phonetic comment and reading aid. The singular and plural are both "furigana".
- futurama — an exhibition or display that attempts to depict certain aspects or elements of life in the future.
- galabiya — djellabah.
- galleria — a spacious passageway, court, or indoor mall, usually with a vaulted roof and lined with commercial establishments.
- galtonia — any plant of the bulbous genus Galtonia, esp G. candicans, with lanceolate leaves, drooping racemes of waxy white flowers, and a fragrant scent: family Liliaceae
- gambetta — Léon [ley-awn] /leɪˈɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1838–82, French statesman.
- gambusia — any fish of the genus Gambusia, comprising small livebearers that feed on aquatic insect larvae and are used to control mosquitoes.
- gandhara — an ancient region in what is now NW Pakistan.
- ganymeda — Hebe.
- garcinia — Mangosteen (of the genus Garcinia).
- gardenia — any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers.
- gastonia — a city in S North Carolina, W of Charlotte.
- gastraea — a primeval double-walled sac-like form whose existence was hypothesized by Ernst Haeckel, who proposed that all animals were descended from it
- gastrula — a metazoan embryo in an early state of germ layer formation following the blastula stage, consisting of a cuplike body of two layers of cells, the ectoderm and endoderm, enclosing a central cavity, or archenteron, that opens to the outside by the blastopore: in most animals progressing to the formation of a third cell layer, the mesoderm.
- gematria — a cabbalistic system of interpretation of the Scriptures by substituting for a particular word another word whose letters give the same numerical sum.
- georgina — a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- gerardia — any plant of the genus Gerardia
- germania — an ancient region in central Europe, N of the Danube River.
- geropiga — a grape syrup used to sweeten inferior port wines
- gesneria — any plant of the mostly tuberous-rooted S. American genus Gesneria, grown as a greenhouse plant for its large leaves and showy tubular flowers in a range of bright colours: family Gesneriaceae
- ghaghara — a river in SW Tibet, Nepal, and N India, flowing S and SE to the Ganges River. 640 miles (1030 km) long.
- ghardaia — a city in N Algeria.
- gioconda — Mona Lisa.
- glabella — the flat area of bone between the eyebrows, used as a craniometric point.
- gladiola — gladiolus (def 1).
- glaucoma — Ophthalmology. abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye, most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains (open-angle glaucoma or chronic glaucoma) or by pressure of the iris against the lens, which traps the aqueous humor (angle-closure glaucoma or acute glaucoma)
- glendora — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- gloriosa — any plant of the bulbous tropical African genus Gloriosa, some species of which are grown as ornamental greenhouse climbers for their showy flowers of yellow, orange, and red: family Liliaceae
- glossina — tsetse fly.
- gloxinia — any of several horticultural varieties of a plant belonging to the genus Sinningia, of the gesneria family, especially S. speciosa, having large white, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers.
- glumella — a palea
- glycemia — the presence of glucose in the blood.
- glyceria — any aquatic grass species in the genus Glyceria
- golconda — a ruined city in S India, near the modern city of Hyderabad: capital of a former Muslim kingdom; famous for its diamond cutting.
- golfiana — golfing collectibles
- golgotha — a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified; Calvary.
- gomashta — (India,now,historical) A native Indian clerk or steward.
- gondwana — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- gorlovka — a city in SE Ukraine, N of Donetsk.
- griselda — a woman of exemplary meekness and patience.
- guadiana — a river in SW Europe, flowing S from central Spain through SE Portugal to the Gulf of Cádiz. 515 miles (830 km) long.
- guaracha — a vigorous Cuban dance in triple meter.
- guedalla — Philip, 1889–1944, English writer.
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- guernica — Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed in 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
- gurdwara — a Sikh temple in India.
- gyandzha — city in NC Azerbaijan, in Transcaucasia: pop. 282,000
- gymkhana — a field day held for equestrians, consisting of exhibitions of horsemanship and much pageantry.
- gymnasia — a plural of gymnasium2 .