5-letter words that end in ia
- lycia — an ancient country in SW Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- lydia — an ancient kingdom in W Asia Minor: under Croesus, a wealthy empire including most of Asia Minor.
- mafia — a hierarchically structured secret organization allegedly engaged in smuggling, racketeering, trafficking in narcotics, and other criminal activities in the U.S., Italy, and elsewhere.
- mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
- maria — nightmare (def 3).
- media — an ancient country in W Asia, S of the Caspian Sea, corresponding generally to NW Iran. Capital: Ecbatana.
- milia — a small white or yellowish nodule resembling a millet seed, produced in the skin by the retention of sebaceous secretion.
- moria — a mountainous region in S Palestine, where Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Gen. 22:3.
- munia — Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).
- mysia — an ancient country in NW Asia Minor.
- noria — a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the East for raising water.
- novia — a fiancée or bride.
- nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- nydia — a female given name.
- oidia — one of the conidia that are borne in chains by certain fungi.
- ossia — (music) In a musical score, an alternative version of the music, often just a few measures long.
- ostia — a town in central Italy, SW of Rome: ruins from 4th century b.c.; site of ancient port of Rome.
- ousia — (theology) The essential nature or \u2018substance\u2019 of god.
- paria — Gulf of, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between the island of Trinidad and the NE coast of Venezuela.
- pavia — a city in N Italy, S of Milan: Charles V captured Francis I here.
- pedia — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- podia — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- praia — a republic consisting of a group of islands (Cape Verde Islands) in the Atlantic, W of Senegal in W Africa: formerly an overseas territory of Portugal; gained independence in 1975. 1557 sq. mi. (4033 sq. km). Capital: Praia.
- rabia — the fourth month of the Muslim calendar.
- rafia — a derogatory term for the Irish Republican Army, when considered as a source of organized crime
- rakia — a strong fruit-based sprit, distilled in the Balkans
- redia — a cylindrical larval stage of some trematodes, produced by a sporocyst and giving rise to daughter rediae or to cercariae.
- retia — a pierced plate on an astrolabe, having projections whose points correspond to the fixed stars.
- rupia — a type of skin eruption
- sakia — a Middle Eastern water wheel
- sepia — a brown pigment obtained from the inklike secretion of various cuttlefish and used with brush or pen in drawing.
- sofia — a republic in SE Europe. 42,800 sq. mi. (110,850 sq. km). Capital: Sofia.
- sonia — a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.
- stria — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- syria — Official name Syrian Arab Republic. a republic in SW Asia at the E end of the Mediterranean. 71,227 sq. mi. (184,478 sq. km). Capital: Damascus.
- tafia — a type of rum made in Haiti from lower grades of molasses, refuse sugar, or the like.
- tenia — taenia.
- tibia — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.
- tinia — the chief god of the Etruscans, with powers similar to those of Zeus.
- tomia — the cutting edge of a bird's bill.
- troia — Troy Game, The.
- uncia — a bronze coin of ancient Rome, the 12th part of an as.
- urbia — cities collectively
- urmia — Lake, a salt lake in NW Iran. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
- varia — a variant reading.
- vigia — a navigational hazard whose existence or position is uncertain.
- wuxia — A genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists.
- xenia — a city in W Ohio.
- zamia — any of various plants of the genus Zamia, chiefly of tropical and subtropical America, having a short, tuberous stem and a crown of palmlike pinnate leaves.
- zaria — a city in N central Nigeria.