English words starting with er

Meanings of Er:

exclamation

Expressing hesitation.

Usage examples:

‘would you like some tea?’ ‘er … yes … thank you.’

suffix

Denoting a person or thing that performs a specified action or activity.

Usage examples:

Farmer

abbreviation

Emergency room.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 68, a soft silvery-white metal of the lanthanide series.

The chemical element erbium.

Meanings of Era:

noun

A long and distinct period of history.

Usage examples:

His death marked the end of an era

Meanings of Eradicate:

verb

Destroy completely; put an end to.

Usage examples:

This disease has been eradicated from the world

Meanings of Eradicated:

adjective

(of a tree or plant) depicted with the roots exposed.

Usage examples:

The shield contains ‘three scots pine trees eradicated proper’.

verb

Destroy completely; put an end to.

Usage examples:

This disease has been eradicated from the world

Meanings of Eradicates:

verb

Destroy completely; put an end to.

Usage examples:

This disease has been eradicated from the world

Meanings of Eradicating:

verb

Destroy completely; put an end to.

Usage examples:

This disease has been eradicated from the world

Meanings of Eradication:

noun

The complete destruction of something.

Usage examples:

The eradication of poverty

Meanings of Eradications:

noun

The complete destruction of something.

Usage examples:

The eradication of poverty

Meanings of Eragrostis:

noun

Any of numerous grasses found in temperate climates worldwide constituting the genus agrostis, which includes some important turf and forage grasses, as creeping bent grass, a. stolonifera, and common bent grass, a. capillaris.

Meanings of Eras:

noun

A long and distinct period of history.

Usage examples:

His death marked the end of an era

Meanings of Erasable:

adjective

(of a mark, word, message, etc.) possible to remove from a surface, a text, a disk, a tape, etc.

Usage examples:

The school specifies that students should use black or blue erasable pens., erasable data, the game…

Meanings of Erase:

verb

Rub out or remove (writing or marks).

Usage examples:

Graffiti had been erased from the wall

Meanings of Erased:

adjective

(of a head or limb) depicted as cut off in a jagged line.

Usage examples:

A stag's head erased

verb

Rub out or remove (writing or marks).

Usage examples:

Graffiti had been erased from the wall

Meanings of Erasement:

noun

The removal of all traces of something; obliteration.

Usage examples:

The erasement of every record

Meanings of Eraser:

noun

A piece of soft rubber or plastic used to rub out something written.

Usage examples:

Pencils, erasers, small plastic figurines, and other nonedible items make good trick-or-treat prizes.

Meanings of Erases:

verb

Rub out or remove (writing or marks).

Usage examples:

Graffiti had been erased from the wall

Meanings of Erasing:

verb

Rub out or remove (writing or marks).

Usage examples:

Graffiti had been erased from the wall

Meanings of Erastian:

noun

A supporter of the doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in ecclesiastical matters (wrongly attributed to erastus)

Usage examples:

He was an erastian who believed in parliamentary control of the church

adjective

Relating to or supporting the doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in ecclesiastical matters.

Usage examples:

An erastian view of ecclesiastical authority

Meanings of Erastianism:

noun

The doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in ecclesiastical matters (wrongly attributed to erastus).

Usage examples:

Maurice did not regard himself as broad church, and his socialism seems at odds with arnold's erast…

Meanings of Erastus:

proper noun

(1524–83), swiss theologian and physician; swiss name thomas lieber; also liebler or lüber. professor of medicine at heidelberg from 1558, he opposed the imposition of a calvinistic system of church government in the city. the doctrine of erastianism was later wrongly attributed to him.

Meanings of Erasure:

noun

The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.

Usage examples:

The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said.

Meanings of Erasures:

noun

The removal of writing, recorded material, or data.

Usage examples:

The judges recorded their diving scores on cardboard "with a lot of erasure," she said.

Meanings of Ere:

conjunction

Before in time.

Usage examples:

I was driven for some half mile ere we stopped

preposition

Before (a specified time).

Usage examples:

We hope you will return ere long

Meanings of Erebus:

proper noun

The primeval god of darkness, son of chaos.

Meanings of Erechtheum:

proper noun

A marble temple of the ionic order built on the acropolis in athens c.421–406 bc, with shrines to athene, poseidon, and erechtheus, a legendary king of athens.