5-Letter Words Ending in R

All 523 five-letter words ending in R: page 1 of 2

A

• abhor10v. To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel...
• achar10n. A spicy and salty pickle in Indian cuisine.
• acher10n. Something that aches.
• achor10n. Dandruff (or similar condition).
• 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.
• actor7n. Someone or something that takes part in some action; a doer, an agent.
• 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.
• ajvar15n. A relish made principally out of red bell peppers, sometimes with...
• alder6n. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the...
• algor6n. Cold, chilliness.
• altar5n. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
• alter5v. To change the form or structure of.
• alvar8n. A limestone pavement.
• ambar9n. Any of various kinds of subterranean or barn-like granary, depending on...
• amber9n. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil...
• ammer9n. The yellowhammer; yellow bunting; Emberiza citrinella.
• amour7n. Courtship; flirtation.
• amper9n. A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein...
• andor6n. Synonym of dandy or hammock litter, a strong cloth suspended from a...
• anger6n. A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or...
• angor6n. Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of...
• anker9n. A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this...
• arber7n. One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
• arbor7n. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden...
• ardor6n. Great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
• arhar8n. Synonym of pigeon pea.
• armer7n. One who arms, or supplies weapons.
• armor7n. A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to...
• asher8n. A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the...
• askar9n. Police.
• asker9n. Someone who asks a question.
• asper7n. Any one of several small coins, circulated around the eastern...
• assur5adj. Forbidden.
• astar5adj. Covered with bright or sparkling objects.
• aster5n. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
• astir5adj. In motion; characterized by motion.
• attar5n. An essential oil extracted from flowers.
• atter5n. Epithelium produced on the tongue.
• auger6n. A carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than those bored by a gimlet.
• augur6n. A diviner who foretells events by the behaviour of birds or other...

B

• bahar10n. A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the...
• 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.
• bevor10n. A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck...
• bidar8n. The ability to detect whether or not a person is bisexual by observing...
• 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.
• bolar7adj. Of, relating to, or similar to, bole or clay; clayey.
• 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.
• boyar10n. A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia...
• boyer10n. A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end.
• briar7n. Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as...
• 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.
• catur7n. A light rowboat used on the coast of Malabar in the early days of the...
• caver10n. A person who explores caves.
• cedar8n. A coniferous tree of the genus Cedrus in the family Pinaceae.
• ceder8n. One who cedes something.
• chair10n. An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or...
• cheer10n. A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
• choir10n. A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are...
• cider8n. An alcoholic, often sparkling (carbonated) beverage made from fermented...
• cigar8n. A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of...
• clear7adj. Transparent in colour.
• coder8n. A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
• coker11n. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured.
• color7n. The spectral composition of visible light.
• 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

• damar8n. A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and...
• dater6n. One who dates.
• dauer6n. A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit...
• dayer9n. Something lasting a specified number of days.
• debar8v. To exclude or shut out; to bar.
• decor8n. The style of decoration of a room or building.
• defer9v. To delay or postpone.
• demur8v. Chiefly followed by to, and sometimes by at or on: to object or be...
• denar6n. The currency of North Macedonia, divided into 100 deni.
• deter6v. To prevent something from happening.
• dewar9n. A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than...
• dhikr13n. A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is...
• dhuhr12n. The midday Islamic prayer.
• 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...
• dinar6n. The official currency of several countries, including Algeria, Bahrain...
• diner6n. Someone who dines.
• diver9n. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
• doner6n. Doner kebab.
• donor6n. One who makes a donation.
• 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.
• drear6adj. Dreary.
• 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.
• eggar7n. Any moth of the family Lasiocampidae.
• 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.
• embar9v. To enclose (as though behind bars); to imprison.
• 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.
• error5n. The state, quality, or condition of being wrong.
• 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.
• fakir12n. A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
• farer8n. One who fares or travels, a traveller, tripper.
• favor11n. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
• femur10n. A thighbone.
• 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.
• filar8adj. Having a thread across the field of view.
• 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...
• flair8n. A natural or innate talent or aptitude.
• fleer8n. One who flees.
• fleur8n. Fleur-de-lis.
• floor8n. The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting...
• flour8n. Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat...
• fluor8n. The mineral fluorite.
• 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.
• friar8n. A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians...
• fryer11n. A machine or container for frying food.
• furor8n. A general uproar or commotion.
• fuser8n. The part of a laser printer that melts the toner onto the medium.
• fusor8n. A coin melter.
• futur8n. A fiancé.

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...
• gator6n. Alligator.
• gazer15n. One who gazes.
• giver9n. One who gives; a donor or contributor.
• gluer6n. One who glues.
• gobar8n. Dried cow dung used directly as fuel or as a source of gas.
• 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...
• grrrr6interj. Elongated form of grr.
• gular6adj. Particularly of an animal: of, pertaining to, or located at the gula...

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.
• hilar8adj. Relating to or near a hilum.
• 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.
• honor8n. Recognition of importance or value; respect; veneration (of someone...
• 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

• ichor10n. The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods.
• idler6n. One who idles; one who spends their time in inaction.
• iftar8n. The evening meal that breaks each day's fast during Ramadan...
• immer9n. A bird in genus Gavia.
• incar7n. A car completely inside of a garage, or the portion of a car that is...
• incur7v. To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something...
• 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.
• invar8n. An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low...

J

• jagir13n. An assignment of the produce and income of a particular district or...
• jawar15n. Sorghum, Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor).
• johar15n. The Rajput practice whereby women are sacrificed in a fire to avoid...
• joker16n. A person who makes jokes.
• juror12n. A member of a jury.

K

• kakar13n. Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak).
• kefir12n. A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to...
• kesar9n. Saffron.
• keyer12n. One who, or that which, keys.
• khair12n. The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained.
• kheer12n. A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.
• kikar13n. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia...
• 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.
• lahar8n. A volcanic mudflow.
• 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.
• lazar14n. Synonym of leper: a person suffering from Hansen's disease; a person...
• lazer14n. One who lazes.
• leger6adj. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
• lemur7n. Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to...
• 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.
• lidar6n. The optical analogue of radar, using intense pulses of laser light to...
• 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...
• livor8n. Skin discoloration, as from a bruise, or occurring after death.
• lobar7adj. Of or relating to a lobe.
• 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.
• lunar5adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's...
• luter5n. One who uses lute (the material).

M

• macer9n. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
• major14adj. Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
• makar11n. A poet writing in Scots.
• maker11n. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
• malar7adj. Pertaining to the cheek.
• manor7n. A landed estate.
• maser7n. A device for the coherent amplification or generation of...
• mater7n. Mother.
• mayor10n. The chief executive of the municipal government of a city, borough...
• mazar16n. A mausoleum or shrine in the Arab world.
• 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.
• minar7n. A minaret.
• miner7n. A person who works in a mine.
• minor7adj. Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or...
• 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.
• mohar10n. The currency of the Kingdom of Nepal and adjoining parts of Videha from...
• molar7n. A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
• moler7n. Synonym of molecatcher (“one who catches moles”).
• moner7n. Any member of the former kingdom Monera.
• moser7n. An informer; one who tells on another.
• motor7n. A machine or device that converts other energy forms into mechanical...
• mover10n. Someone who or something that moves.
• mower10n. A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns.
• mucor9n. The property of being mucid.
• mudar8n. Calotropis gigantea (crown flower, giant milkweed).
• musar7n. An itinerant musette player.
• muser7n. One who muses.
• muter7n. Something that mutes sound.
• mylar10n. A polyester film.

N

• nadir6n. The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith...
• nahor8n. Mesua ferrea (Ceylon ironwood).
• namer7n. One who names, or calls by name.
• navar8n. A kind of Zoroastrian priest.
• nazar14n. An eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in...
• never8adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
• nicor7n. A sea monster.
• 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...
• nupur7n. An anklet.

O

• occur9v. To happen or take place.
• ocker11n. Interest on money; usury; increase.
• odour6n. UK standard spelling of odor.
• offer11n. A proposal that has been made.
• oiler5n. An assistant in the engine room of a ship, senior only to a wiper...
• older6adj. Elderly.
• omkar11n. The symbol ॐ that represents the syllable “om” or “aum”.
• order6n. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
• ormer7n. An abalone or sea-ear, particularly Haliotis tuberculata, common in the...
• oscar7n. A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South...
• 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.
• pagar8n. A fence, in parts of Asia.
• pager8n. A wireless telecommunications device that receives text or voice...
• paker11n. A vagrant, stroller.
• palar7adj. Pertaining to a pale, a vertical band or line.
• 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...
• payor10n. One who makes a payment.
• peter7n. The penis.
• piker11n. A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
• pilar7adj. Relating to hair.
• 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...
• polar7adj. Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the...
• poser7n. A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
• power10n. The ability to do or undergo something.
• prier7n. A person who pries.
• prior7adj. Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
• pryer10n. A person who pries; a pry.
• puker11n. Someone who pukes, a vomiter.

Q

• qadar15n. Divine intervention in the affairs of humans; fate, predestination.
• queer14adj. Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not...

R

• racer7n. A person who participates in races, especially an athlete.
• radar6n. In full primary radar: a method of detecting a distant object and...
• 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.
• razor14n. A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the...
• rebar7n. A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.
• recur7v. Of an event, situation, etc.: to appear or happen again, especially...
• refer8v. To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
• retar5v. To provide (a road, etc.) with a new coating of tar.
• 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).
• rotor5n. A rotating part of a mechanical device; for example, in an electric...
• 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...
• rumor7n. A statement or claim of questionable accuracy, from no known reliable...
• ryder9n. A gold coin of Zealand (Netherlands) worth 14 florins.

S

• sabar7n. A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one...
• sabir7n. A lingua franca.
• saker9n. A falcon (Falco cherrug) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
• saler5n. Salt cellar.

Questions about these words

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

Word.ws lists 523 five-letter words ending in R, plus 226 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words ending in R?

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

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

zahir scores 17 points with the standard letter tile values.

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