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8-letter words ending in RA
There are 34 8-letter words ending in RA in the standard word-game list. The most common are sayonara, etcetera, vertebra, marinara, plethora, anaphora.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| sayonara | a farewell remark | 11 |
| etcetera | additional unspecified odds and ends; more of the same; entity, other pronoun; pronoun, entity; quantifier:… | 10 |
| vertebra | one of the bony segments of the spinal column | 13 |
| marinara | sauce for pasta; contains tomatoes and garlic and herbs | 10 |
| plethora | extreme excess | 13 |
| anaphora | using a pronoun or similar word instead of repeating a word used earlier | 13 |
| calyptra | the hood or cap covering the calyx of certain plants: e.g., the California poppy | 15 |
| capybara | pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | 17 |
| caracara | any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America | 12 |
| cathedra | a throne that is the official chair of a bishop | 14 |
| chimaera | (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail;… | 15 |
| cocinera | A female cook, in Spanish-speaking regions. | 12 |
| demerara | a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana | 11 |
| diaspora | the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel; from the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 587-86 BC when… | 11 |
| dicentra | Any of the plant genus Dicentra. | 11 |
| ephemera | something transitory; lasting a day | 15 |
| fenestra | a small opening covered with membrane (especially one in the bone between the middle and inner ear) | 11 |
| habanera | music composed in duple time for dancing the habanera | 13 |
| monstera | any plant of the genus Monstera; often grown as houseplants | 10 |
| palestra | a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes | 10 |
| palpebra | either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye | 14 |
| pellagra | a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of… | 11 |
| penumbra | a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | 14 |
| tapadera | One of the leather hoods that cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle. | 11 |
| vinifera | common European grape cultivated in many varieties; chief source of Old World wine and table grapes | 14 |