7-letter words containing ter
- bloater — a herring, or sometimes a mackerel, that has been salted in brine, smoked, and cured
- blotter — A blotter is a large sheet of blotting paper kept in a special holder on a desk.
- blunter — having an obtuse, thick, or dull edge or point; rounded; not sharp: a blunt pencil.
- blurter — a person who blurts
- bluster — If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- boaster — a chisel for boasting stone.
- bolster — If you bolster something such as someone's confidence or courage, you increase it.
- booster — A booster is something that increases a positive or desirable quality.
- bootery — a shop selling boots and shoes
- boulter — a long, stout fishing line with several hooks attached.
- brouter — A device which bridges some packets (i.e. forwards based on data link layer information) and routes other packets (i.e. forwards based on network layer information). The bridge/route decision is based on configuration information.
- bruiter — a person who spreads a rumour
- bumster — (of trousers) cut low so as to reveal the top part of the buttocks
- burster — a person or thing that bursts.
- butters — very ugly
- buttery — Buttery food contains butter or is covered with butter.
- canters — Plural form of canter.
- carters — Plural form of carter.
- casters — Plural form of caster.
- cateran — (formerly) a member of a band of brigands and marauders in the Scottish highlands
- catered — Simple past tense and past participle of cater.
- caterer — Caterers are people or companies that provide food and drink for a place such as an office or for special occasions such as weddings and parties.
- cattery — A cattery is a place where you can leave your cat to be looked after when you go on holiday.
- cautery — the coagulation of blood or destruction of body tissue by cauterizing
- centers — Plural form of center.
- chanter — a person who chants
- chapter — A chapter is one of the parts that a book is divided into. Each chapter has a number, and sometimes a title.
- charter — A charter is a formal document describing the rights, aims, or principles of an organization or group of people.
- chaster — refraining from sexual intercourse that is regarded as contrary to morality or religion; virtuous.
- chatter — If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
- cheater — A cheater is someone who cheats.
- chester — a city in NW England, administrative centre of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, on the River Dee: intact surrounding walls; 16th- and 17th-century double-tier shops. Pop: 80 121 (2001)
- chitter — to twitter or chirp
- chunter — to mutter or grumble incessantly in a meaningless fashion
- chutter — An alarm call used by vervets to warn of the presence of a snake.
- cistern — A cistern is a container which stores the water supply for a building, or that holds the water for flushing a toilet.
- cittern — a medieval stringed instrument resembling a lute but having wire strings and a flat back
- clatter — If you say that people or things clatter somewhere, you mean that they move there noisily.
- clitter — (of insects) to stridulate or make a shrill noise
- clotter — to clot
- clouter — a blow, especially with the hand; cuff: The bully gave him a painful clout on the head.
- cluster — A cluster of people or things is a small group of them close together.
- clutter — Clutter is a lot of things in an untidy state, especially things that are not useful or necessary.
- clyster — an enema
- coaster — A coaster is a small mat that you put underneath a glass or cup to protect the surface of a table.
- coaters — Plural form of coater.
- cointer — to bury together
- compter — a prison, esp one in which the inmates are debtors
- conster — Obsolete spelling of construe.
- cooters — Plural form of cooter.