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5-Letter Words Ending in TER

There are 37 five-letter words ending in TER on Word.ws, from acter to water. The most common are after, water, later, peter and enter.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 37 five-letter words ending in TER

  • acter7n. A play or film with a particular number of acts.
  • after8adv. Behind; later in time; following.
  • alter5v. To change the form or structure of.
  • aster5n. Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
  • atter5n. Epithelium produced on the tongue.
  • biter7n. A fish that tends to take bait.
  • cater7v. To provide, particularly.
  • dater6n. One who dates.
  • deter6v. To prevent something from happening.
  • eater5n. A person or animal who eats.
  • efter8n. A thief who frequents theaters.
  • enter5v. To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
  • ester5n. A compound most often formed by the condensation of an alcohol and an...
  • gater6n. A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal...
  • hater8n. One who hates.
  • heter8n. Special permission from a rabbi to break a commandment.
  • inter5v. To bury in a grave.
  • kiter9n. One who writes a check while there are insufficient funds in the...
  • later5adv. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
  • luter5n. One who uses lute (the material).
  • mater7n. Mother.
  • meter7n. A device that measures things.
  • muter7n. Something that mutes sound.
  • niter5n. A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making...
  • noter5n. A small rod, usually made of wood, pressed against the melody course of...
  • otter5n. An aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal in the subfamily Lutrinae.
  • outer5adj. Outside; external.
  • pater7n. Father.
  • peter7n. The penis.
  • rater5n. One who provides a rating or assessment.
  • sater5n. That which sates.
  • tater5n. A potato.
  • titer5n. The concentration of a substance as determined by titration.
  • toter5n. One who totes or carries something.
  • utter5adj. To the furthest or most extreme extent; absolute, complete, total...
  • voter8n. Someone who votes or is entitled to vote.
  • water8n. An inorganic compound (of molecular formula H₂O) found at room...
10 rare five-letter words ending in TER

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in TER are there?
Word.ws lists 37 five-letter words ending in TER, plus 10 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in TER?
after, water, later, peter, enter, outer, inter and voter.
Which of the five-letter words ending in TER has the highest letter score?
kiter scores 9 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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