5-Letter Words That End With: BA

• arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal

• Ilex paraguariensis, a species of holly native to southern South America; or the dried leaves and twigs of this plant, used to make the caffeine-rich beverage mate.

• viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

• music composed for dancing the samba

• a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa

• a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

• dance the samba

• a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

• syncopated music in duple time for dancing the rumba

• a folk dance in duple time that originated in Cuba with Spanish and African elements; features complex footwork and violent movement

• a ballroom dance based on the Cuban folk dance

• dance the rhumba

• tropical American trees with palmately compound leaves and showy bell-shaped flowers

• naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

• A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.