8-letter words that end in a
- charvaka — Lokayatika.
- chatchka — tchotchke
- chechnya — ethnic region in the N Caucasus, Russia: since 1991 its status as a political subdivision of the Russian Federation has been disputed by the Chechens
- chianina — one of a large breed of beef cattle, originally of Italy, used also as a draft animal.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chickpea — Chickpeas are hard round seeds that look like pale-brown peas. They can be cooked and eaten.
- chillada — a kind of fried patty
- chimaera — any tapering smooth-skinned cartilaginous deep-sea fish of the subclass Holocephali (or Bradyodonti), esp any of the genus Chimaera. They have a skull in which the upper jaw is fused to the cranium
- chimenea — An earthenware outdoor fireplace shaped like a light bulb, with the bulbous end housing the fire and typically supported by a wrought-iron stand.
- chiminea — a free-standing outdoor fireplace with a rounded body
- chinampa — an artificially created island used for growing crops in Mexican or in Mesoamerican agriculture
- chingola — a town in N central Zambia.
- chinkara — an Indian gazelle, Gazella gazella bennetti
- chioggia — a city in NE Italy, on an island at the S end of the Lagoon of Venice.
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- chiquita — a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “small.”.
- chiragra — a form of gout that occurs in the hands
- chloasma — the appearance on a person's skin, esp of the face, of patches of darker colour: associated with hormonal changes caused by liver disease or the use of oral contraceptives
- chloroma — A myeloid sarcoma.
- chondria — a profusely branched red alga, Chondria tenuissima, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America.
- chordata — the phylum comprising the chordates.
- chorioma — any benign or malignant tumor of chorionic tissue; choriocarcinoma.
- churinga — a sacred amulet of the native Australians
- chyluria — the presence of chyle in urine
- ciabatta — Ciabatta or ciabatta bread is a type of white Italian bread that is made with olive oil.
- cimarosa — Domenico. 1749–1801, Italian composer, chiefly remembered for his opera buffa The Secret Marriage (1792)
- cinchona — any tree or shrub of the South American rubiaceous genus Cinchona, esp C. calisaya, having medicinal bark
- cinerama — wide-screen presentation of films using either three separate 35mm projectors or one 70mm projector to produce an image on a large deeply curved screen
- cisterna — a sac or partially closed space containing body fluid, esp lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
- clarinda — a female given name, form of Clara.
- clarissa — a feminine name
- claustra — barrier.
- clausula — a type of musical cadence
- clitella — a ring or saddle-shaped region of glandular tissue in the body wall of certain annelids, as earthworms and some leeches, that after copulation secretes a cocoon in which the eggs and sperm are deposited for fertilization and development.
- clorinda — a female given name.
- clotilda — ?475–?545 ad, wife of Clovis I of the Franks, whom she converted (496) to Christianity
- cnidaria — an alternative name for the invertebrate phylum Coelenterata, giving emphasis to the stinging structures as characteristic of the phylum.
- coahuila — a state of N Mexico: mainly plateau, crossed by several mountain ranges that contain rich mineral resources. Capital: Saltillo. Pop: 2 295 808 (2000). Area: 151 571 sq km (59 112 sq miles)
- coccidia — any sporozoan of the order Coccidia, often parasitic in the digestive tracts of certain animals and a cause of coccidiosis.
- cocinera — (in Mexico) a female cook
- cocobola — timber from trees of the genus Delbergia, including rosewood
- colatina — a city in SE Brazil.
- collegia — Ecclesiastical. college (def 11).
- coloboma — a structural defect of the eye, esp in the choroid, retina, or iris
- colombia — a republic in NW South America: inhabited by Chibchas and other Indians before Spanish colonization in the 16th century; independence won by Bolívar in 1819; became the Republic of Colombia in 1886; violence and unrest have been endemic since the 1970s. It consists chiefly of a hot swampy coastal plain, separated by ranges of the Andes from the pampas and the equatorial forests of the Amazon basin in the east. Language: Spanish. Religion: Roman Catholic majority. Currency: peso. Capital: Bogotá. Pop: 45 745 783 (2013 est). Area: 1 138 908 sq km (439 735 sq miles)
- columbia — a river in NW North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing through British Columbia, then west to the Pacific. Length: about 1930 km (1200 miles)
- columnea — any plant belonging to the genus Columnea, a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Gesneriaceae, with bright red, yellow, or orange tubular flowers and glossy leaves
- compania — company.
- comparsa — a song and folk dance of Cuba.
- conchita — a female given name.