5-letter words that end in er
- fiber — a fine, threadlike piece, as of cotton, jute, or asbestos.
- fifer — a high-pitched transverse flute used commonly in military and marching musical groups.
- filer — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- finer — of superior or best quality; of high or highest grade: fine wine.
- firer — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- fiver — a cardinal number, four plus one.
- fixer — a person or thing that fixes.
- fleer — to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly.
- flier — something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- flyer — something that flies, as a bird or insect.
- fouer — crazy; foolish.
- fower — (Early Modern English, dated) One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
- foyer — the lobby of a theater, hotel, or apartment house.
- freer — a person or thing that frees.
- frier — a person or thing that fries.
- fryer — a person or thing that fries.
- fumer — Often, fumes. any smokelike or vaporous exhalation from matter or substances, especially of an odorous or harmful nature: tobacco fumes; noxious fumes of carbon monoxide.
- gager — a person or thing that gauges.
- gamer — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- gaper — a person or thing that gapes.
- gaser — Alternative form of graser.
- gater — Southern U.S. Informal. alligator.
- gayer — of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire or behavior directed toward a person or persons of one's own sex; homosexual: a gay couple. Antonyms: straight.
- gazer — to look steadily and intently, as with great curiosity, interest, pleasure, or wonder.
- geber — (Jabir ibn Hayyan) 8th-century a.d, Arab alchemist.
- gezer — an ancient Canaanite town, NW of Jerusalem.
- giber — to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
- giver — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
- gluer — One who glues.
- gofer — an employee whose chief duty is running errands.
- gomer — an undesirable hospital patient.
- goner — a person or thing that is dead, lost, or past recovery.
- goter — Obsolete form of gutter.
- gower — John, 1325?–1408, English poet.
- greer — Germaine, born 1939, Australian feminist and writer.
- haber — Fritz, 1868–1934, German chemist: Nobel Prize 1918.
- haler — heller2 (def 1).
- hamer — Fannie Lou, 1917–77, U.S. civil rights activist.
- hater — a person who has an intense dislike for another person or thing (often used in combination): I'm a big hater of opera. Are you a dog-hater?
- haver — to equivocate; vacillate.
- hayer — a person who makes hay
- hazer — a person or thing that hazes.
- heber — Reginald, 1783–1826, British bishop and hymn writer.
- heder — (especially in Europe) a private Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- heter — a heterosexual person.
- hewer — to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
- hexer — hexagonal: a bolt with a matching washer and hex nut.
- heyer — Georgette. 1902–74, British historical novelist and writer of detective stories, noted esp for her romances of the Regency period
- hider — to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
- hiker — to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.