5-Letter Words Ending With LA

a boy or man

Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923)

United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)

large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions

a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)

sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark

a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

water arum

a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate

an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes

a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque

an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings

scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly

any plant of the genus Inula

a kind of danceable music popular among black South Africans; includes a whistle among its instruments

spiral-horned South African antelope with a fringe of white hairs along back and neck

a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa