7-letter words that end in a
- bourkha — a loose garment covering the entire body and having a veiled opening for the eyes, worn by Muslim women.
- braccia — an old Italian unit of length, usually about 26 or 27 inches (66 or 68 cm), but varying between 18 and 28 inches (46 and 71 cm).
- brachia — Anatomy. the part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow.
- bravura — If you say that someone is doing something with bravura, you mean that they are using unnecessary extra actions that emphasize their skill or importance.
- breccia — a rock consisting of angular fragments embedded in a finer matrix, formed by erosion, impact, volcanic activity, etc
- brescia — a city in N Italy, in Lombardy: at its height in the 16th century. Pop: 187 567 (2001)
- britzka — a long horse-drawn carriage with a folding top over the rear seat and a rear-facing front seat
- broad a — of or relating to a type of pronunciation transcription in which symbols correspond approximately to phonemes without taking account of allophonic variations
- brotula — any of several chiefly deep-sea fishes of the family Brotulidae.
- bryozoa — a phylum of invertebrates comprising about 4000 marine and freshwater species of bryozoans.
- bubinga — the tree Guibourtia demeusui, native to tropical African regions
- buccina — a curved brass horn used by the ancient Roman army
- buganda — a region of Uganda: a powerful Bantu kingdom from the 17th century
- bukhara — a city in S Uzbekistan. Pop: 299 000 (2005 est)
- bulimia — Bulimia or bulimia nervosa is an illness in which a person has a very great fear of becoming fat, and so they make themselves vomit after eating.
- bumelia — a thorny shrub of the genus Bumelia
- bursera — of or relating to the Bursera genus of gum trees
- buzukia — bouzouki.
- c-linda — (language) The most widely used variant of Linda, with C as the base language. It is available from Sci Comp Assocs <[email protected]>.
- cabbala — cabala
- cabinda — an exclave of Angola, separated from the rest of the country by part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Pop: about 300 000 (2002 est). Area: 7270 sq km (2807 sq miles)
- cabomba — any of several aquatic plants of the genus Cabomba of the family Cabombaceae, having both submerged and floating leaves
- cabrera — Manuel Estrada [Spanish mahn-wel es-trah-th ah] /Spanish mɑnˈwɛl ɛsˈtrɑ ðɑ/ (Show IPA), Estrada Cabrera, Manuel.
- cachaca — a white Brazilian rum made from sugar cane
- cadenza — In classical music, a cadenza is a long and difficult solo passage in a piece for soloist and orchestra.
- caesura — (in modern prosody) a pause, esp for sense, usually near the middle of a verse line
- caffila — a caravan train
- cahokia — a city in SW Illinois.
- caldera — a large basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano, formed by the collapse or explosion of the cone
- calluna — a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris
- calumba — the root of the Mozambiquan plant Jateorhiza columba, used as an aid to digestion and as a mild tonic
- cambria — Wales
- camilla — Roman Legend. a woman warrior who fought on the side of Turnus against Aeneas.
- camisia — a surplice
- camorra — a secret society organized in about 1820 in Naples, which thrives on blackmail and extortion
- campana — a bell or a bell shape
- cananea — a city in N Mexico: copper mining and smelting.
- canasta — a card game for two to six players who seek to amass points by declaring sets of cards
- candela — the basic SI unit of luminous intensity; the luminous intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 × 1012 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of (1⁄683) watt per steradian
- candida — any yeastlike parasitic fungus of the genus Candida, esp C. albicans, which causes thrush (candidiasis)
- canella — the fragrant cinnamon-like inner bark of a West Indian tree, Canella winterana (family Canellaceae) used as a spice and in medicine
- cannula — a narrow tube for insertion into a bodily cavity, as for draining off fluid, introducing medication, etc
- canossa — a ruined castle in N Italy, in Emilia near Reggio nell'Emilia: scene of the penance done by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV before Pope Gregory VII
- cantala — a tropical American plant, Agave cantala, similar to the century plant: family Agavaceae (agaves)
- cantata — A cantata is a fairly short musical work for singers and instruments.
- cantica — part of an ancient Roman drama chanted or sung and accompanied by music.
- cantina — a bar or wine shop, esp in a Spanish-speaking country
- canzona — a type of 16th- or 17th-century contrapuntal music, usually for keyboard, lute, or instrumental ensemble
- capella — the brightest star in the constellation Auriga; it is a yellow giant and a spectroscopic binary. Visual magnitude: 0.08; spectral type: G6III and G2III; distance: 42 light years
- captcha — Captcha is a system for checking that a human and not a machine is using a computer. Captcha is an abbreviation for 'completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart'.