5-Letter Words Ending in ER

All 345 five-letter words ending in ER

A

• acher10n. Something that aches.
• acker11n. A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
• acter7n. A play or film with a particular number of acts.
• adder7n. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera.
• after8adv. Behind; later in time; following.
• agger7n. A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a...
• aider6n. A person who aids or assists.
• aimer7n. One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
• airer5n. A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse.
• alder6n. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the...
• alter5v. To change the form or structure of.
• amber9n. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil...
• ammer9n. The yellowhammer; yellow bunting; Emberiza citrinella.
• amper9n. A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein...
• anger6n. A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or...
• anker9n. A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this...
• arber7n. One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
• armer7n. One who arms, or supplies weapons.
• asher8n. A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the...
• asker9n. Someone who asks a question.
• asper7n. Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern...
• aster5n. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
• atter5n. Epithelium produced on the tongue.
• auger6n. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.

B

• baker11n. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
• baler7n. A machine for creating bales, e.g., of hay or cotton.
• barer7n. One who bares or exposes something.
• baser7n. Someone who uses freebase cocaine or other drugs.
• bauer7n. A German farmer or peasant.
• bever10n. A drink.
• biker11n. A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member...
• biter7n. A fish that tends to take bait.
• biver10v. To shiver; to tremble, shake, quiver.
• bluer7n. A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
• boner7n. One who or that which removes bones.
• borer7n. A tool used for drilling.
• bower10n. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval...
• boxer14n. A participant in a boxing match; a fighter who boxes.
• boyer10n. A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
• buyer10n. A person who makes one or more purchases.

C

• caber9n. A long, thick log held upright at one end and tossed in the Highland...
• cager8n. A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
• caner7n. One who canes.
• caper9n. A playful leap or jump.
• carer7n. Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or...
• cater7v. To provide, particularly.
• caver10n. A person who explores caves.
• ceder8n. One who cedes something.
• cheer10n. A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
• cider8n. An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented...
• coder8n. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
• coker11n. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured.
• comer9n. One in a race who is catching up to others and shows promise of winning.
• coner7n. A marijuana cigarette tapered to a conical shape.
• coper9n. One who copes.
• corer7n. A utensil for removing the core from apples and similar fruit or...
• cover10n. A lid.
• cower10v. To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.
• crier7n. One who cries.
• cuber9n. Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
• curer7n. A healer.
• cyber12adj. Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative form of cyber-.

D

• dater6n. One who dates.
• dauer6n. A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit...
• dayer9n. Something lasting a specified number of days.
• defer9v. To delay or postpone.
• deter6v. To prevent something from happening.
• dicer8n. A gambler who plays dice.
• diker10n. One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
• dimer8n. A molecule consisting of two identical halves, formed by joining two...
• diner6n. Someone who dines.
• diver9n. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
• doner6n. Doner kebab.
• doper8n. A person employed to apply dope solution during aircraft manufacture.
• doser6n. One who administers a dose.
• dower9n. The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to...
• dozer15n. One who dozes.
• dryer9n. One who, or that which, dries; any device or facility employed to...
• duper8n. A person who dupes another.

E

• eager6adj. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
• easer5n. A person or thing that eases or relieves.
• eater5n. A person or animal who eats.
• edger7n. A tool that is used to trim the edges of a lawn.
• efter8n. A thief who frequents theaters.
• egger7n. One who gathers eggs.
• eider6n. Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the...
• elder6adj. Closer to the dealer, i.e. receiving cards earlier than others.
• elver8n. A young eel.
• ember9n. A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
• emmer9n. Any member of the species Triticum dicoccum, one of a group of hulled...
• ender6n. Something which ends another thing.
• enter5v. To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• esker9n. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running...
• esper7n. A person who practices the development of psychic ability.
• ester5n. A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an...
• ether8n. The medium breathed by human beings; the air.

F

• facer10n. An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
• fader9n. A device used to raise and lower sound volume.
• faker12n. One who fakes something.
• farer8n. One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper.
• fever11n. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a...
• fewer11det. Less; a smaller amount of something non-integral commonly expressed as...
• fiber10n. A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in...
• fifer11n. One who plays on a fife.
• filer8n. One who files something.
• finer8n. One who fines or purifies.
• firer8n. A person who fires a weapon; a shooter.
• fiver11n. A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
• fixer15n. A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that...
• fleer8n. One who flees.
• flyer11n. That which flies, as a bird or insect.
• fower11n. The digit 4 in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
• foyer11n. Such a space used in a hotel, theater, etc.
• freer8n. One who frees.
• fryer11n. A machine or container for frying food.
• fuser8n. The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the medium.

G

• gamer8n. A person who plays any kind of game.
• gaper8n. One who gapes; a starer.
• gater6n. A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal...
• gazer15n. One who gazes.
• giver9n. One who gives; a donor or contributor.
• gluer6n. One who glues.
• gofer9n. A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
• gomer8n. A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance...
• goner6n. Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who...

H

• hater8n. One who hates.
• haver11v. To hem and haw.
• hayer11n. One who cuts hay for animal fodder.
• hazer17n. One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation.
• heder9n. An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts.
• heter8n. Special permission from a rabbi to break a commandment.
• hewer11n. One who hews.
• hexer15n. One who casts a hex, or curse.
• hider9n. One who hides oneself or a thing.
• hiker12n. One who hikes, especially frequently.
• hiper10n. A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.
• hiver11n. One who collects bees into a hive.
• holer8n. That which holes, perforates etc.
• homer10n. A former Hebrew unit of dry volume, about equal to 230 L or 6+¹⁄₂ US...
• honer8n. One who hones.
• hoper10n. One who hopes.
• hoser8n. One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
• hover11v. To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the...
• hoyer11n. A device for transferring a person with serious mobility issues to and...
• hyper13n. A character or an individual with large body parts, usually the...

I

• idler6n. One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.
• immer9n. A bird in genus Gavia.
• infer8v. To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by...
• inker9n. A person or device that applies ink.
• inner5adj. Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located...
• inter5v. To bury in a grave.

J

• joker16n. A person who makes jokes.

K

• keyer12n. One who, or that which, keys.
• kheer12n. A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.
• kiter9n. One who writes a check while there are insufficient funds in the...
• kiver12n. A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
• koker13n. A sluice.

L

• lacer7n. A person or thing that laces.
• lader6n. One who loads cargo onto a vessel.
• lager6n. A type of beer, brewed using a bottom-fermenting yeast.
• laker9n. One engaged in sport; a player; an actor.
• laner5n. In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a player who focuses...
• laser5n. A device that produces a monochromatic, coherent beam of light.
• later5adv. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
• laver8n. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata)...
• laxer12n. Lacrosse player.
• layer8n. A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
• lazer14n. One who lazes.
• leger6adj. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
• leper7n. A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.
• lever8n. A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis...
• lexer12n. A computer program that performs lexical analysis.
• liber7n. Synonym of phloem.
• lifer8n. A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
• liger6n. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.
• liker9n. One who likes.
• liner5n. Someone who fits a lining to something.
• liver8n. A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients...
• loner5n. One who is alone, lacking or avoiding the company of others.
• loper7n. One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
• loser5n. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
• lover8n. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a...
• lower8adj. Bottom; more towards the bottom than the middle of an object.
• luger6n. Someone who competes in the luge.
• luter5n. One who uses lute (the material).

M

• macer9n. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
• maker11n. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
• maser7n. A device for the coherent amplification or generation of...
• mater7n. Mother.
• mazer16n. The maple tree, or maple wood.
• meter7n. A device that measures things.
• miler7n. An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or...
• mimer9n. Someone who mimes during a performance of a song.
• miner7n. A person who works in a mine.
• miser7n. A kind of earth auger, typically large-bored and often hand-operated.
• mixer14n. One who, or a device that, mixes or merges things together.
• moder8v. To moderate.
• moler7n. Synonym of molecatcher (“one who catches moles”).
• moner7n. Any member of the former kingdom Monera.
• moser7n. An informer; one who tells on another.
• mover10n. Someone who or something that moves.
• mower10n. A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.
• muser7n. One who muses.
• muter7n. Something that mutes sound.

N

• namer7n. One who names, or calls by name.
• never8adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
• niger6n. An Ethiopian herb (Guizotia abyssinica), grown for its seed and edible...
• niner5n. Something nine inches long, or holding nine gallons, etc.
• niter5n. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making...
• nomer7n. A denomination.
• noser5n. An indulgence in nosiness or other curiosity.
• noter5n. A small rod, usually made of wood, pressed against the melody course of...

O

• ocker11n. Interest on money; usury; increase.
• offer11n. A proposal that has been made.
• oiler5n. An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper...
• older6adj. Elderly.
• order6n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
• ormer7n. An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the...
• osier5n. A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe...
• other8adj. See other (determiner) below.
• otter5n. An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
• outer5adj. Outside; external.
• owler8n. The alder tree.
• owner8n. One who owns something.

P

• pacer9n. One who paces.
• pager8n. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice...
• paker11n. A vagrant, stroller.
• paper9n. A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a...
• parer7n. A tool used to pare things.
• pater7n. Father.
• paver10n. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
• payer10n. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been...
• peter7n. The penis.
• piker11n. A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
• piner7n. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
• piper9n. A musician who plays a pipe.
• pizer16n. A (front) porch (on a house).
• plier7n. One who plies.
• poker11n. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs...
• poser7n. A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
• power10n. The ability to do or undergo something.
• prier7n. A person who pries.
• pryer10n. A person who pries; a pry.
• puker11n. Someone who pukes, a vomiter.

Q

• queer14adj. Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not...

R

• racer7n. A person who participates in races, especially an athlete.
• rager6n. One who rages.
• raker9n. A person who uses a rake.
• raper7n. One who commits rape; a rapist.
• rater5n. One who provides a rating or assessment.
• raver8n. A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
• razer14n. Someone who razes.
• refer8v. To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
• rever8n. The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that...
• rexer12n. A skater who performs rexing.
• ricer7n. A person, especially a Native American, who cultivates and harvests...
• rider6n. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped...
• rimer7n. A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.
• riser5n. Someone or something which rises.
• river8n. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying...
• rober7n. One who robes.
• roger6interj. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message...
• roker9n. The thornback ray.
• roper7n. A ropemaker (a maker of ropes).
• rover8n. One who roves: a person or animal that travels around, especially over...
• rower8n. One who rows.
• ruler5n. A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with...
• ryder9n. A gold coin of Zealand (Netherlands) worth 14 florins.

S

• saker9n. A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
• saler5n. Salt cellar.
• sater5n. That which sates.
• saver8n. One who saves.
• sawer8n. One who saws; a sawyer.
• sayer8n. One who says; one who makes announcements; a crier.
• seder6n. The ceremonial meal held on the first night or first two nights of...
• sefer8n. A book, especially a religious book.
• sever8v. To cut free.
• sewer8n. A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human...
• sheer8adj. Very thin or transparent.
• shyer11n. A horse that shies.
• sider6n. One who takes a side.
• siver8v. To simmer.
• sixer12n. A shot in which the ball passes over the boundary without touching the...
• sizer14n. An instrument or contrivance to size articles, or to determine their...
• skier9n. One who skis.
• sneer5v. To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn.
• sober7adj. Not drunk; not intoxicated.
• sofer8n. A Jewish scribe who can transcribe Torah scrolls and other religious...
• soler5n. One who fits the soles to shoes.
• soper7n. Methaqualone.
• sower8n. One who or that which sows.
• speer7v. To ask, to inquire.
• spier7n. One who spies; a spy.
• steer5v. To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a...
• suber7n. Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of...
• super7adj. Of excellent quality, superfine.

T

• taker9n. One who takes something.
• taler5n. A Germanic unit of currency used between the 15th and 19th centuries.
• tamer7n. One who tames or subdues.
• taper7n. A slender wax candle.
• taser5n. A Taser, a handheld device made by Taser International intended to...
• tater5n. A potato.
• tider6n. One who drives with the tide.
• tiger6n. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous...
• tiler5n. A person who sets tiles.
• timer7n. A device used to measure amounts of time.
• titer5n. The concentration of a substance as determined by titration.
• tober7n. The site where a fairground is set up.
• toker9n. One who tokes, especially marijuana.
• toner5n. Powder used in laser printers and photocopiers to form the text and...
• toper7n. Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.
• toter5n. One who totes or carries something.
• tower8n. A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either...
• trier5n. One who tries; one who makes experiments or examines anything by a test...
• tuber7n. A fleshy, thickened underground stem of a plant, usually containing...
• tuner5n. A person who tunes a piano or organ.
• typer10n. A typewriter.

U

• ucker11n. A person who performs fellatio.
• udder7n. An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals...
• ulcer7n. An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an...
• umber9n. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and...
• under6prep. Beneath; below; at or to the bottom of, or the area covered or...
• upper9adj. At a higher physical position, level, rank or order.
• usher8n. A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.
• utter5adj. To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total...

V

• vaper10n. A user of electronic cigarettes.
• viner8n. A winegrower.
• viper10n. A venomous snake in the family Viperidae.
• vomer10n. The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum...
• voter8n. Someone who votes or is entitled to vote.

W

• wader9n. One who wades.
• wafer11n. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
• wager9n. A bet; a stake; a pledge.
• waker12adj. Watchful; vigilant; alert.
• waler8n. A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a...
• water8n. An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room...
• waver11v. To swing or wave, especially in the air, wind, etc.; to flutter.
• waxer15n. A device used to apply wax.
• weber10n. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of magnetic...
• winer8n. A person who habitually drinks wine.
• wiper10n. Someone who wipes.
• wooer8n. Someone who woos or courts.

Y

• yager9n. A Jäger, an elite soldier of the Austrian army.
• yoker12n. One who yokes.

Z

• zoner14n. Someone who zones things.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in ER are there?

Word.ws lists 345 five-letter words ending in ER, plus 90 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words ending in ER?

other, after, never, under, power, water, later and order.

Which of the five-letter words ending in ER has the highest letter score?

hazer scores 17 points with the standard letter tile values.

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