8-letter words that end in la
- gladiola — gladiolus (def 1).
- glumella — a palea
- guedalla — Philip, 1889–1944, English writer.
- guerilla — a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.
- habenula — a narrow bandlike structure, as the stalk attaching the pineal gland to the thalamus.
- hordeola — sty2 .
- hydrilla — a submerged aquatic plant, Hydrilla verticillata, native to the Old World, that has become a pest weed in U.S. lakes and waterways.
- isabella — ("the Catholic") 1451–1504, wife of Ferdinand V: queen of Castile 1474–1504; joint ruler of Aragon 1479–1504.
- jhabvala — Ruth Prawer, original name Ruth Prawer. 1927–2013, British writer living in India and the US, born in Germany to Polish parents: author of the Booker-prizewinning novel Heat and Dust (1975) and scripts for films by James Ivory
- kalevala — (italics) the national epic of Finland (1835, enlarged 1849), compiled and arranged by Elias Lönnrot from popular lays of the Middle Ages.
- kinsella — W(illiam) P(atrick) born 1935, U.S. novelist and short-story writer, born in Canada.
- la jolla — a resort area in San Diego, in S California.
- la scala — the chief opera house in Italy, in Milan (opened 1776)
- lekgotla — a meeting place for village assemblies, court cases, and meetings of village leaders
- macushla — darling.
- mammilla — Anatomy. the nipple of the mamma, or breast.
- manarola — a group of five coastal villages (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) on the Ligurian Sea in NW Italy, near La Spezia.
- mandella — A decorative Native American object, derived from a traditional ceremonial shield.
- mandorla — A pointed oval figure used as an architectural feature and as an aureole enclosing figures such as Jesus Christ or the Virgin Mary in medieval art.
- mantilla — a silk or lace head scarf arranged over a high comb and falling over the back and shoulders, worn in Spain, Mexico, etc.
- marbella — a seaport in S Spain, on the Mediterranean: resort center.
- marcella — a female given name.
- metabola — (in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
- minneola — a juicy, pear-shaped variety of tangelo.
- miracula — An implementation of a subset of Miranda by Stefan Kahrs <[email protected]>, LFCS, no modules or files. Can be interactively switched between eager and lazy evaluation. Portable source in C from the author.
- missoula — a city in W Montana.
- montilla — a dry, rather bitter wine of Spain.
- motorola — Motorola, Inc.
- mutazila — a member of a medieval theological sect (Mutazila) that maintained that nothing but eternity could be asserted regarding Allah, that the eternal nature of the Koran was questionable, and that humans have free will.
- navicula — an incense holder or incense boat
- nubecula — (astronomy) A nebula; specifically, the Magellanic Clouds.
- opercula — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- ossicula — Plural form of ossiculum.
- panatela — a long, slender cigar, usually with straight sides and tapering to a point at the closed end.
- panetela — panatela
- parabola — a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane. Equation: y 2 = 2 px or x 2 = 2 py.
- polygala — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- predella — the base of an altarpiece, often decorated with small paintings or reliefs.
- prunella — a strong, lightweight worsted constructed in a twill weave, used in the manufacture of women's and children's apparel.
- puntilla — (in bullfighting) a short dagger used for cutting the spinal cord of the bull.
- quinella — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor, in order to win, must select the first- and second-place finishers without specifying their order of finishing.
- quiniela — quinella.
- rachilla — a small or secondary rachis, as the axis of a spikelet in a grass inflorescence.
- raurkela — a city in Odisha state, in E India.
- retinula — a group of elongate neural receptor cells forming part of an arthropod compound eye: each retinula cell leads to a nerve fiber passing to the optic ganglion.
- salsilla — a tropical flowering vine found in the Americas
- scaevola — Gaius [gey-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs/ (Show IPA) (or Caius, ) [key-uh s] /ˈkeɪ əs/ (Show IPA), Mucius [myoo-shee-uh s,, -shuh s] /ˈmyu ʃi əs,, -ʃəs/ (Show IPA) fl. 6th century b.c., Roman hero.
- scrofula — primary tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially those of the neck.
- semigala — an event similar to a gala but on a lesser scale; an occasion that is festive but not to the degree of a gala
- shigella — any of several rod-shaped aerobic bacteria of the genus Shigella, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans and other warm-blooded animals.