5-letter words that end in a
- lappa — African waist scarf.
- larsa — an ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq: archaeological site.
- larva — Entomology. the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis.
- lassa — a city in and the capital of Tibet, in the SE part: sacred city of Lamaism. About 12,000 feet (3650 meters) above sea level.
- latka — Alternative spelling of latke.
- lauda — Niki (ˈnɪki). born 1949, Austrian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion 1975, 1977, 1984
- laura — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “laurel.”.
- lehua — Also called ohia lehua. a tree, Metrosideros villosa, of the Hawaiian islands, yielding a hard wood.
- leila — a female given name.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- lempa — a river rising in NW El Salvador, flowing E and then S to the Pacific Ocean. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- lenca — a member of an Indian people of El Salvador and central Honduras.
- lenya — Lotte [lot-ee;; German law-tuh] /ˈlɒt i;; German ˈlɔ tə/ (Show IPA), (Karoline Blamauer) 1900–81, Austrian actress and singer, in the U.S. after 1935 (wife of Kurt Weill).
- leona — a female given name.
- lepra — Leprosy Relief Association
- lepta — an aluminum coin of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a drachma.
- lerna — a marshy region near Argos, Greece: the legendary abode of the Hydra slain by Hercules.
- lesya — any of six possible colors given to the monad, or individual soul, by its karma and being lighter or darker according to the proportion of good or evil included in the karma.
- letha — a female given name.
- lezza — Alternative form of lezzer.
- lhasa — Also, Thibet. Also called Sitsang, Xizang. Official name Tibet Autonomous Region. an administrative division of China, N of the Himalayas: prior to 1950 a theocracy under the Dalai Lama; the highest country in the world, average elevation about 16,000 feet (4877 meters). 471,660 sq. mi. (1,221,599 sq. km). Capital: Lhasa.
- liana — any of various usually woody vines that may climb as high as the tree canopy in a tropical forest.
- libia — Libya.
- libra — the ancient Roman pound (containing 5053 grains or 327.4 grams).
- libya — Ancient Geography. the part of N Africa W of Egypt.
- lidia — (in bullfighting) one section of a corrida, comprising the action that takes place from the entrance of the bull to the time it is killed and dragged from the arena by mules.
- lifia — Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale et d'Intelligence Artificielle.
- limba — an African tree, Terminalia superba, having yellowish-brown wood.
- limma — any of several musical intervals of small size, such as a semitone
- limpa — a rye bread made using brown sugar or molasses
- linda — a female given name: from a Spanish word meaning “pretty.”.
- linea — a seaport in S Spain, near Gibraltar.
- linga — Sanskrit Grammar. the masculine gender.
- llama — a woolly-haired South American ruminant of the genus Lama, believed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco: often used as a beast of burden.
- logia — a plural of logion.
- lokma — A pastry made of fried dough soaked in sugar syrup or honey and cinnamon, typically shaped into a ring or ball. (used especially of the Turkish variant of this pastry).
- longa — the second longest note in medieval mensural notation.
- loofa — Also called dishcloth gourd, rag gourd. any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, of the gourd family, bearing large, elongated fruit. the fruit of such a vine.
- lorca — García Lorca.
- loria — Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications
- lorna — a female given name.
- lotsa — Eye dialect of lots of.
- lotta — a female given name, form of Charlotte.
- lubra — an Aborigine girl or woman.
- lucca — a city in NW Italy, W of Florence.
- lucia — a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “light.”.
- luffa — loofah.
- lulea — a seaport in NE Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- luria — Salvador Edward, 1912–91, U.S. biologist, born in Italy: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1969.
- lutea — yellow