4-letter words containing er
- gery — (obsolete) changeable; fickle.
- goer — a person or thing that goes: We sat in the lobby watching the comers and goers.
- heer — an old unit of measure for linen and woolen yarn, equivalent to about 600 yards (550 meters).
- hera — the ancient Greek queen of heaven, a daughter of Cronus and Rhea and the wife and sister of Zeus.
- herb — a male given name, form of Herbert.
- herd — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
- here — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- herl — a barb of a feather, used especially in dressing anglers' flies.
- herm — a monument consisting of a four-sided shaft tapering inward from top to bottom and bearing a head or bust; those of Hermes usually had an erect penis, which passersby stroked for luck.
- hern — heron.
- hero — a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character: He became a local hero when he saved the drowning child.
- herp — (colloquial) a reptile or amphibian.
- herr — the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
- hers — Slang. a female: Is the new baby a her or a him?
- hery — to glorify; praise
- hoer — a long-handled implement having a thin, flat blade usually set transversely, used to break up the surface of the ground, destroy weeds, etc.
- huer — One who cries out or gives an alarm.
- hyer — Obsolete spelling of higher.
- icer — One who ices.
- iter — a canal or passage.
- jeer — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- jer. — Jeremiah
- jeri — a female given name, form of Geraldine.
- jerk — to move with a quick, sharp motion; move spasmodically.
- jers — Plural form of jer.
- jery — Several species of bird endemic to Madagascar, in the genuses Neomixis and Hartertula.
- ker- — forming words suggesting a thump, thud, explosion, etc.
- kerb — curb (defs 1, 15).
- kere — A reading that in the traditional Jewish mode of reading the Hebrew Bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points if the text is vocalized being inserted in the text.
- kerf — a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
- kerl — Alternative form of carl.
- kern — Jerome (David) 1885–1945, U.S. composer.
- kero — a wooden container, as a beaker, made by the Incas.
- kerr — Clark, 1911–2003, U.S. educator: president of the University of California 1958–67.
- kers — Kinetic Energy Recovery System: an on-board system that stores the energy expended while braking and then converts it into energy that can be used during acceleration
- kier — a large vat in which fibers, yarns, or fabrics are boiled, bleached, or dyed.
- leer — to look with a sideways or oblique glance, especially suggestive of lascivious interest or sly and malicious intention: I can't concentrate with you leering at me.
- lere — (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) To teach; instruct; explain; inform.
- lerp — (uncountable) A sweet secretion, produced by the larvae of the family Psyllidae, that forms scales on eucalyptus leaves.
- lier — a person or thing that lies, as in wait or in ambush.
- loer — an informal, simplified spelling of low1 , used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lo calorie.
- meer — Jan van der [yahn vahn der] /yɑn vɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), Vermeer, Jan.
- mer. — meridian
- merc — a mercenary soldier.
- merd — (obsolete) ordure; dung.
- mere — mother1 .
- meri — a Māori war club
- merk — mark2 (def 3).
- merl — the blackbird, Turdus merula.
- merm — A permanent for a man.