8-letter words that end in ia
- panmixia — random mating of individuals within a population, the breeding individuals showing no tendency to choose partners with particular traits.
- pannonia — an ancient country and Roman province in central Europe, S and W of the Danube, the territory of which is now occupied by Hungary, E Austria, N Croatia, NW Serbia, Slovenia, W Slovakia, and N Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- paranoia — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
- paroemia — a proverb; an axiom
- parosmia — a disorder of the sense of smell, especially the perception of odors that are not present.
- parousia — advent (def 4).
- patricia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “patrician.”.
- petechia — a minute, round, nonraised hemorrhage in the skin or in a mucous or serous membrane.
- phacelia — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Phacelia, of the waterleaf family, chiefly of the western U.S. and Mexico, having clusters of violet, blue, or white flowers.
- phaeacia — an island nation on the shores of which Odysseus was shipwrecked and discovered by Nausicaä.
- phenicia — an ancient kingdom on the Mediterranean, in the region of modern Syria, Lebanon, and Israel.
- photinia — any of various trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Photinia, of the rose family, having clusters of small white flowers and red, berrylike fruit.
- photopia — vision in bright light (opposed to scotopia).
- physalia — a marine invertebrate, often confused with a jellyfish, that has a painful sting
- pignolia — a pine nut, the edible seed of the nut pine
- pizzeria — a restaurant, bakery, or the like, where pizzas are made and sold.
- planaria — freshwater or saltwater flatworms of the family Planariidae, that are widely used in laboratory work because of their ability to regenerate parts of the body easily
- planuria — an expulsion of urine from an abnormal opening
- plumeria — a tropical tree with candelabra-like branches
- podalgia — pain in the foot.
- polyuria — the passing of an excessive quantity of urine, as in diabetes, in certain nervous diseases, etc.
- potentia — a city in Basilicata, in S Italy.
- pretoria — a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km). Capital: Pretoria.
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- pycnidia — (in certain ascomycetes and fungi imperfecti) a globose or flask-shaped fruiting body bearing conidia on conidiophores.
- quillaia — soapbark (sense 1)
- raphania — a type of ergotism possibly resulting from ingestion of the poison from radish seeds
- reptilia — the class comprising the reptiles.
- rhodesia — (as Southern Rhodesia, ) a former British colony in S Africa: declared independence 1965; name changed to Zimbabwe, 1979.
- rodentia — the order comprising the rodents.
- rondonia — a state in W Brazil. 93,815 sq. mi. (242,980 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Velho.
- roumania — Romania.
- roumelia — a division of the former Turkish Empire, in the Balkan Peninsula: included Albania, Macedonia, and Thrace.
- ruthenia — a former province in E Czechoslovakia.
- santeria — (sometimes lowercase) a religion merging the worship of Yoruba deities with veneration of Roman Catholic saints: practiced in Cuba and spread to other parts of the Caribbean and to the U.S. by Cuban emigrés.
- sapremia — blood poisoning caused by the toxins produced by bacterial putrefaction, as in gangrene.
- sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
- sardinia — a large island in the Mediterranean, W of Italy: with small nearby islands it comprises a department of Italy. 9301 sq. mi. (24,090 sq. km).
- sarmatia — the ancient name of a region in E Europe, between the Vistula and the Volga.
- scotopia — vision in dim light (opposed to photopia).
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- sensoria — a part of the brain or the brain itself regarded as the seat of sensation.
- septaria — a concretionary nodule or mass, usually of calcium carbonate or of argillaceous carbonate of iron, traversed within by a network of cracks filled with calcite and other minerals.
- serratia — a genus of rod-shaped, aerobic bacteria that are saprophytic on decaying plant or animal materials.
- signoria — the government of an Italian city-state
- sinfonia — a symphony.
- slavonia — a historic region in N Croatia.
- slovakia — a republic in central Europe: formerly a part of Czechoslovakia; under German protection 1939–45; independent since 1993. 18,931 sq. mi. (49,035 sq. km). Capital: Bratislava.
- slovenia — a republic in SE Europe: formerly part of Yugoslavia. 7819 sq. mi. (20,250 sq. km). Capital: Ljubljana.