5-letter words containing er
- bower — A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood.
- boxer — A boxer is someone who takes part in the sport of boxing.
- boyer — Charles (ʃarl), known as the Great Lover. 1899–1978, French film actor
- br'er — brother: usually prefixed to a name
- brier — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
- buber — Martin. 1878–1965, Jewish theologian, existentialist philosopher, and scholar of Hasidism, born in Austria, whose works include I and Thou (1923), Between Man and Man (1946), and Eclipse of God (1952)
- buyer — A buyer is a person who is buying something or who intends to buy it.
- caber — A caber is a long, heavy, wooden pole. It is thrown into the air as a test of strength in the traditional Scottish sport called 'tossing the caber'.
- cader — Eastern New England and British. (of the young of animals) abandoned or left by the mother and raised by humans: a cade lamb.
- cager — a basketball player
- caner — a person who regularly indulges in excessive drinking or drug-taking
- caper — Capers are the small green buds of caper plants. They are usually sold preserved in vinegar.
- carer — A carer is someone who is responsible for looking after another person, for example, a person who has a disability, or is ill or very young.
- cater — In British English, to cater for a group of people means to provide all the things that they need or want. In American English, you say you cater to a person or group of people.
- caver — A caver is someone who goes into underground caves as a sport.
- ceder — to yield or formally surrender to another: to cede territory.
- ceram — one of the Molucca Islands, in Indonesia, west of New Guinea: 6,621 sq mi (17,148 sq km)
- ceras — (biology) a dorsal or lateral outgrowth on the body of nudibranchs.
- cerci — one of a pair of appendages at the rear of the abdomen of certain insects and other arthropods, serving as tactile organs.
- cered — Archaic. to wrap in or as if in a cerecloth, especially a corpse.
- ceres — the Roman goddess of agriculture
- cerge — a large altar candle
- ceria — cerium dioxide, CeO2, a white compound used as in ceramics
- ceric — of or containing cerium in the tetravalent state
- cero- — indicating the use of wax
- ceroc — a form of dance combining elements of jive and salsa
- cerro — a hill or peak.
- certs — Plural form of cert.
- ceryl — (chemistry) A radical, C27H55, supposed to exist in several compounds obtained from waxes.
- cheer — When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
- chere — dear; beloved: used in referring to or addressing a woman or girl.
- cheri — a female given name.
- chert — a microcrystalline form of silica usually occurring as bands or layers of pebbles in sedimentary rock. Formula: SiO2. Varieties include flint, lyddite (Lydian stone)
- cider — Cider is a drink made from apples which in Britain usually contains alcohol. In the United States, cider does not usually contain alcohol, and if it does contain alcohol, it is usually called hard cider.
- citer — to quote (a passage, book, author, etc.), especially as an authority: He cited the Constitution in his defense.
- clerc — Laurent [loh-rahn] /loʊˈrɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1785–1869, French educator of the deaf, in the U.S. after 1816.
- clerk — A clerk is a person who works in an office, bank, or law court and whose job is to look after the records or accounts.
- coder — a person or thing that codes
- coker — cokehead.
- comer — You can use comers to refer to people who arrive at a particular place.
- cooer — to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves.
- coper — a horse-dealer
- corer — a kitchen tool used to remove the cores of apples or other fruit
- cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
- cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
- coyer — Comparative form of coy.
- crier — a person or animal that cries
- cryer — Archaic form of crier.
- cuber — a solid bounded by six equal squares, the angle between any two adjacent faces being a right angle.
- curer — A healer.