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bra5 | Clipping of brassiere. [from 1920s] |
era3 | A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year. |
ora3 | plural of os; mouths or openings, especially of the cervix. |
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aura4 | Distinctive atmosphere or quality associated with something. |
bora6 | A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales. |
bura6 | |
dura5 | (anatomy) Ellipsis of dura mater. |
eyra7 | A slender, reddish-yellow wild cat (Puma yagouaroundi eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to Texas. |
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agora6 | A place for gathering. |
antra5 | plural of antrum |
cobra9 | Any of various venomous snakes of the family Elapidae. |
copra9 | The dried kernel of the coconut, from which coconut oil is extruded. |
crura7 | plural of crus |
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angora7 | An angora cat. |
aurora6 | An atmospheric phenomenon created by charged particles from the sun striking the upper atmosphere, creating coloured lights in the sky. It is usually named australis or borealis based on whether it is in the Southern or Northern Hemisphere respectively. |
buckra14 | (Caribbean) A white person. |
camera10 | A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs. |
centra8 | plural of centrum |
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algebra10 | (uncountable, mathematics) A system for computation using letters or other symbols to represent numbers, with rules for manipulating these symbols. |
amphora14 | A two-handled jar with a narrow neck that was used in ancient times to store or carry wine or oil. |
baccara13 | A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters. |
bandora10 | Alternative spelling of bandura |
begorra10 | (dated, Ireland, now literary) Alternative form of by God |
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anaphora13 | (rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis. |
antidora9 | plural of antidoron |
antisera8 | plural of antiserum |
calyptra15 | (botany) In bryophytes, a thin, hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens. |
capoeira12 | (uncountable) A martial art developed in Brazil. |
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ambulacra15 | plural of ambulacrum |
angostura10 | Angostura bitters |
carbonara13 | A thick Italian pasta sauce, made with guanciale, grated cheese, beaten egg yolks and pepper. |
carnivora14 | |
cataphora16 | (linguistics, rhetoric) The use of a pronoun, or other linguistic unit, before the noun phrase to which it refers, sometimes used for rhetorical effect. |
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aspidistra13 | any of several Asian plants, of the genus Aspidistra, having large leaves and small bell-shaped flowers; widely cultivated as a houseplant |
candelabra15 | plural of candelabrum |
coelentera12 | plural of coelenteron |
coleoptera14 | |
coloratura12 | (uncountable) Florid or fancy passages in vocal music. |
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abracadabra18 | A use of the mystical term ‘abracadabra’, supposed to work as part of a healing charm or a magical spell; any spell or incantation making use of the word. [from 16th c.] |
chaulmoogra19 | A tree found in Southeast Asia, Hydnocarpus wightiana, which yields an oil that was formerly used as a treatment for leprosy. |
dodecahedra19 | plural of dodecahedron |
grandiflora16 | A rose of the Grandiflora class of roses created in the middle of the 20th century as backcrosses of hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category. |
hymenoptera21 | plural of hymenopteron |
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acciaccatura20 | (music) A short grace note (theoretically taking no time at all), occurring on the beat occupied by the main note to which it is prefixed, one scale-step higher or lower than that main note. (Sometimes equivalent, therefore, to a short appoggiatura, but in Baroque music interpreted differently and more strictly.) Written as a note lighter in appearance, typically a quaver (eighth note), with an oblique stroke through the stem. |
appoggiatura18 | (music) A type of musical ornament, falling on the beat, which often creates a suspension and subtracts for itself half the time value of the principal note which follows. |
foraminifera20 | Synonym of foraminifer (“any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude”) [from mid 19th c.] |
trapezohedra27 | plural of trapezohedron |
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trisoctahedra19 | plural of trisoctahedron |
We found 286 words ending in letters ra
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