Officer

Definition: Officer

Officer

Noun

1. Any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command; "an officer is responsible for the lives of his men".

2. Someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year".

3. A member of a police force; "it was an accident, officer".

4. A person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines".

Verb

1. Direct or command as an officer.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "officer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Medicine

Economics

Labor

Politics & International Affaires

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Officer

Combatant

Infantry, infantryman, private, private soldier, foot soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper, sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, cannon fodder, food for powder; officer; (commander); subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; spear bearer; halberdier, lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager, skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowman.

Director

Officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in authority.

Judgment

Censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer.

Jurisdiction

Press gang; exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier.

Officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel;officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel; tithingman.

Lawyer

Bar, legal profession, bar association, association of trial lawyers; officer of the court; gentleman of the long robe; junior bar, outer bar, inner bar; equity draftsman, conveyancer, pleader, special pleader.

Master

Mayor, mayoralty; prefect, chancellor, archon, provost, magistrate, syndic; alcalde, alcaid; burgomaster, corregidor, seneschal, alderman, councilman, committeeman, councilwoman, warden, constable, portreeve; lord mayor; officer; (executive); dewan, fonctionnaire.

Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.

Admiral, admiralty; rear admiral, vice admiral, port admiral; commodore, captain, commander, lieutenant, ensign, skipper, mate, master, officer of the day, OD; navarch.

Crosswords: Officer

Danish (officer), Swedish (liaison, officer, ranker).

My favorite part about graduating now will be dodging my student loan officer for the rest of my life (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.)

Yeah sure I just have to check in with my parole officer (Double Jeopardy; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Not a cop, an officer, a legend all over Hong Kong (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf)

Yes, officer, is there a problem (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

I'm a treasury officer. (The Untouchables; writing credit: Oscar Fraley; Eliot Ness)

officer (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal)

Never trust a Private with a loaded weapon, or an Officer with a map. (references; author: unknown)

The Recruiting Officer (1973)

An Officer of the Court (1967)

The Recruiting Officer (1965)

Probation Officer (1959)

Truant Officer Donald (1941)

My Old Man's a Dustman (Ballad of a Refuse Disposal Officer) (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Arco American Foreign Service Officer Exam (Arco Civil Service Test Tutor) (reference)

• Police Officer, 15 Edition (Civil Service/Military) (reference)

• Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer (reference)

• Officer Coffey Stories (reference)

• Effects of Law Enforcement Accreditation: Officer Selection, Promotion, and Education (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Executive Officer (reference)

• Officer (reference)

• Officer Compensation Report (reference)

• Officer Review (reference)

• Probation Officer (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Day with Officer Pete (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• An Officer And A Gentleman: Original Soundtrack From The Paramount Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Public Health Service officer candidate examining board, circa 1912. Credit: CDC.

EIS officer screening person for head lice. Credit: CDC.

Coast Guard Cutter Bear at Demarcation Point Provided transportation for magnetic field work by C&GS officer J. T. Watkins. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Gilbert T. Rude During World War I as a naval officer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Pirkko O'Clock (ex-NOAA Corps officer) and tourists cavorting with the dolphins at Monkey Mia near Shark Bay. These dolphin are wild and associate with humans with no training or coercion (except food.). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

A National Marine Fisheries Service enforcement officer volunteer at the clean-up. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Eric Hutchins met with various restoration partners including the Lewis Berger group an engineering division that is offering pro bono services, a Town of Dennis representative, the state fisheries officer and others. The purpose of the pre restoration meeting was to assess restoration alternatives. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Ensign Dann Karlson assists divers with tide gauge installation, while Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele (Field Operations Officer) and Ordinary Seaman Chip Miller prepare additional gear. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

RAINIER Field Operations Officer, Lt. E. J. Van Den Ameele, works with Senior Survey Tech Winli Lin leveling the tide gauge while Survey Tech Nicole Stagner holds the level rod. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

GOES G ends in a fiery explosion as the Cape Canaveral Range Safety Officer destroys Delta Launch Vehicle 178 after 91 seconds. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But yet opposition may be made to the illegal acts of any inferior officer, or other commissioned by him; unless he will, by actually putting himself into a state of war with his people, dissolve the government, and leave them to that defence which belongs to every one in the state of nature: for of such things who can tell what the end will be? and a neighbour kingdom has shewed the world an odd example. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. (reference)

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. (reference)

Although, therefore, a mandamus may be directed to courts, yet to issue such a writ to an officer for the delivery of a paper, is in effect the same as to sustain an original action for that paper, and, therefore, seems not to belong to appellate, but to original jurisdiction. (reference)

No officer or man of the German mercantile marine shall receive any training in the Navy. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The officer made a trumpet of his two hands

The story was told, and everybody was in ecstasy at the adroitness of the officer.

One officer put down the license number and raised the hood

The adamant was not descended four yards, before the officer felt it drawn so strongly downward that he could hardly pull it back

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Have an adult contact your local animal control officer. (references)

If you see a coyote acting strangely, have an adult call your local animal control officer for assistance. (references)

Business

The Commercial Service officer in Barcelona is coordinating the program. (references)

A Commercial Officer from the U.S. Embassy sits on the volunteer executive board. (references)

Officials other than a police officer must have a court order to enter a private home. (references)

Children

Japan

In impeachment proceedings concluded in November, he lost his certificate as an officer of the court and was barred from requesting reinstatement for 5 years. (references)

Civil Liberties

Macau

In 2000 a police or immigration officer allegedly beat one foreign practitioner. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

In demonstrations in October, a fight broke out, injuring protesters and a police officer. (references)

Economic History

Peru

The shareholders meetings, and Chief Executive Officer, manage the SAC. (references)

Benin

A FOREIGN COMMERCIAL OFFICER (FCO) IS ASSIGNED TO COVER BENIN, INTER ALIA. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

A two-star officer serves as the chief of staff and commander of the FANCI. (references)

Human Rights

Jamaica

One correctional officer was dismissed. (references)

Gambia

No action was taken against the officer by year's end. (references)

Peru

One police officer and the taxi driver severely beat Ayaucan. (references)

Minorities

Ethiopia

At the higher ranks the officer personnel is much less ethnically diverse. (references)

Peru

Both the navy and the air force are believed widely to follow unstated policies that exclude blacks from the officer corps. (references)

Hungary

The European Roma Rights Center reported that on May 5, in Fiserbocsa, five Roma men were shot at and threatened in the presence of a police officer. (references)

Political Economy

Paraguay

The recruitment and conscription of underage minors continued, although a court convicted one military officer of enlisting minors. (references)

Pakistan

While the officers responsible for such abuses sometimes were transferred or suspended for their actions, no officer has been convicted and very few have been arrested. (references)

Ghana

Although members of the security forces often are not punished for abuses, the commanding officer and other members of the 64th Infantry Unit, which is believed to commit many abuses, was transferred during the year. (references)

Political Rights

Togo

He replaced Eugene Koffi Adoboli, a former career U.N. officer who was not a member of the ruling party. (references)

South Africa

Women occupy three of four parliamentary presiding officer positions (speaker and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, and chair of the NCOP). (references)

Trade

Pakistan

The office includes a Senior Commercial Officer and two (2) Commercial Specialists. (references)

Travel

Guyana

To contact the duty officer, telephone 592-226-2614, 226-8298, 227-7869. (references)

Ghana

Visitors desiring an extension of their stay must apply to the Chief Immigration Officer before the visa expires. (references)

Albania

U.S. Embassy Tirana encourages all U.S. business people to meet with the Embassy's economic/commercial officer when in Tirana. (references)

Women

Malawi

The Government commissioned a female officer in August, and 49 female recruits joined the armed services. (references)

Guyana

Magistrates may issue interim protection orders when a victim of abuse, a police officer, or a social worker fills out an application for protection. (references)

El Salvador

A former personnel officer of an autonomous government institution asserted that her supervisor had instructed her to give preference to men over women in hiring. (references)

Worker Rights

Sri Lanka

The military apparently transferred the officer responsible for the forced labor when the abuse was publicized. (references)

Indonesia

ACILS' Indonesian program officer was punched and kicked while trying to leave the hotel where the seminar was held. (references)

Hong Kong

In cases where the claimed relationship as husband and wife does not satisfy the immigration officer, applications are rejected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "officer": aeromedical evacuation coordinating officer ♦ aeromedical evacuation operations officer ♦ air force officer ♦ air liaison officer ♦ air movement officer ♦ air surveillance officer ♦ air traffic control officer ♦ air transport liaison officer ♦ airborne force liaison officer ♦ army officer ♦ artillery officer ♦ aspirant officer ♦ assistant liaison officer ♦ assistant operations officer ♦ authorizing officer ♦ battalion executive officer ♦ careers officer ♦ carrier guidance officer ♦ cavalry officer ♦ chief administrative officer ♦ chief civilian personnel officer ♦ chief communication officer ♦ chief executive officer ♦ chief financial officer ♦ chief military personnel officer ♦ chief officer ♦ chief operating officer ♦ chief operations officer ♦ chief petty officer ♦ Chief Privacy Officer ♦ chief transport officer ♦ chief warrant officer ♦ church officer ♦ cipher officer ♦ clerical officer ♦ commanding officer ♦ Commission officer ♦ commissioned military officer ♦ commissioned naval officer ♦ commissioned officer ♦ communication officer ♦ control officer ♦ corporate information systems officer ♦ correctional officer ♦ customhouse officer ♦ customs officer ♦ cypher officer ♦ deck officer ♦ deputy chief administrative officer ♦ deputy chief operations officer ♦ desk officer ♦ Disbursing officer ♦ disinfestation officer ♦ divisional nursing officer ♦ documentation officer ♦ duty officer ♦ environmental health officer ♦ estate officer ♦ excise officer ♦ executive officer ♦ field liaison officer ♦ field officer ♦ financial officer ♦ First officer ♦ flag officer ♦ Fleet Chief Petty Officer ♦ flight operations officer ♦ flying officer ♦ force engineering officer ♦ force medical officer ♦ garrison duty officer ♦ general officer ♦ general service officer ♦ ground liaison officer ♦ guards officer ♦ gunnery officer ♦ health officer ♦ hearing officer ♦ high officer of state ♦ honorary chief warrant officer ♦ house officer ♦ immigration officer ♦ information officer ♦ inspecting officer ♦ intelligence officer ♦ interrogation officer ♦ junior officer ♦ law officer ♦ liaison officer ♦ line officer ♦ Master Chief Petty Officer ♦ medical officer ♦ military officer ♦ military personnel officer ♦ military travel officer ♦ motor transport officer ♦ movement control officer ♦ naval officer ♦ navigating officer ♦ navigation officer ♦ non commissioned officer. Additional references.

Beginning with "officer": officer-and-gentlemanly, officer-class, officer-council, officer-councillor, officer-designate, Officer-in-charge, Officer-in-command, officer-led, officer-member, officer-of-the-watch, Officer-to-be, officer-training.

Ending with "officer": ex-officer, police-officer, sub-officer.

Containing "officer": petty-officer first class.

Afrikaans

sekuriteitsbeampte (security, security officer). (various references)

Albanian

oficer (bishop), nënpunës (office bearer, office holder, official), komandoj (command, control, guide, rule the roost). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موظف (clerk), ‏مأمور (magistrate, subject), ‏قاد (carry, command, conduct, direct, drive, drove, govern, guide, handle, head, helm, induct, introduce, lead, lead in, lead up to, marshal, mastermind, navigate, orientate, pilot, preside, run, see out, shepherd, show, show out, steer, take the lead, usher), ‏وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, destine, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mug, mush, orient oneself, orientate, pan, phiz, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer, visage), ‏زود بالموظفين, ‏زود بالضباط, ‏ضابط من مرتبة القادة, ‏ضابط (inspector, standard), ‏الضابط (controller, regulator), ‏أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, enjoin, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, warn, word), ‏أرشد (brief, direct, guide, instruct, lead, lead about, marshal, pilot, streamline, tutor), ‏ربان باخرة, ‏شرطي (bobby, bull, conditional, constable, cop, copper, gendarme, pig, provisional, provisory, sleuth, subjunctive). (various references)

Asturian

oficial de policía (police officer). (various references)

Bemba

kapokola (police officer). (various references)

Blackfoot

iyinnakiikoan (police officer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

секретар (actuary, amanuensis, clerk, recorder, registrar, scribe, secretary, writer), служещ (employe, employee, office holder, white collar worker), член на ръководния персонал, чиновник (agent, clerk, office bearer, official, white collar worker), командувам (command, direct, lead, push about, push around, queen it, regiment, rule the roast, run), офицер (bishop), давам офицерски кадър на, длъжностно лице (office bearer). (various references)

Cebuano

opisyal sa pulis (police officer). (various references)

Chamorro

polisia (police officer). (various references)

Chinese 

軍官 , 官员 (official). (various references)

Czech

vedoucí pracovník (executive, official), vedoucí oddìlení, strážník (patrolman, policeman), referent (reporter, speaker), dùstojník (commissioned officer), celník (customs officer), úředník (clerk, official). (various references)

Danish

officer, embedsmand (official). (various references)

Dutch

officier. (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

chapac (police officer). (various references)

Esperanto

oficisto (official), oficiro. (various references)

Faeroese

starvsmaður (official), herovasti. (various references)

Farsi 

فرماندهی کردن , فرمان دادن (Command, Ordain), متصدی (Curator, Incumbent, Titular), مامور (Agent, Envoy), صاحب منصب (Official), افسرمعین کردن , افسر (Jemadar, Pretor). (various references)

Finnish

virkailija (employee, functionary, official). (various references)

French

officier (officiate), fonctionnaire (official). (various references)

Frisian

ofsier, amtner (official). (various references)

German

Offizier, Beamter (civil servant, official). (various references)

Greek 

στέλεχος (executive member, member, stalk, stem), υπάλληλοσ (clerk, employee), Υπεύθυνος, λειτουργόσ (functionary, minister, ministrant), αξιωματικόσ (axiomatic, axiomatical, office bearer), αξιωματικός (axiomatic, official), αξιοματούχοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

שוטר (constable, copper, minion of the law, official, policeman, redcap), קצין, פקיד (clerk, functionary, official), אמרכל (administrator, superintendent, treasurer), נושא משרה (functionary). (various references)

Hungarian

tiszt (admiralship, junior officer, neat, place), közhivatalnok (functionary). (various references)

Indonesian

opsir. (various references)

Inuktitut

pukiqtalik (police officer, police station). (various references)

Irish

garda (guard). (various references)

Italian

funzionario (civil servant, clerk, executive, functionary, official), ufficiale (mate, offical, official, solemn), impiegato (clerk, employee, office worker, official, servant, staffer). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

運転士 (mate), 役員 (executive, official, staff), 士官　, 士官 , オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しかん (admonishingat the cost of ones life, chronicler, collection of poems, crown of a tooth, eclampsia, flaccid, giving up illusions and attaining enlightenment, government service, historical view, personal impression, relaxation, samurai's service), うんてんし (mate), オフィサー , やくいん (executive, official, staff). (various references)

Korean 

장교. (various references)

Macedonian

policaec (police officer). (various references)

Malay

opsir. (various references)

Manx

oikagh (functionary, official), offishear, fer oik (official), cur fir oik er. (various references)

Maori

piriihimana (police officer). (various references)

Papago

ge'ejig. (various references)

Papiamen

amtenar (official). (various references)

Pig Latin

officeray.(various references)

Polish

oficer, urzędnik (official). (various references)

Portuguese

oficial (authoritative, duty, journeyman, official). (various references)

Provencal

oficièr de polícia (police officer). (various references)

Romanian

ofiţer al unui ordin, ofiţer (mate, official), trimis (apostle, delegate, envoy), sol (ambassador, earth, envoy, ground, Herald, land, Mold, mould, so, soil, Sol), poliţist (Bobby, constable, cop, copper, ferret, minion of the law, patrolman, peace officer, peeler, police, policeman), funcţionar (clerk, employee, functionary, magistrate, official, servant). (various references)

Ruanda

uwucungera umutekano (police officer). (various references)

Russian 

чиновник (civil servant, clerk, functionary, man of office, office bearer, office holder, office-bearer, official, taxing-master), командовать (be in charge, be in command of, command, domineer, order about, rule the roost), офицер (commissioned officer, ranker, sam browne), должностное лицо (administrator, functionary, offical, office-bearer, officeholder, official, placeholder, place-holder, placeman). (various references)

Samoan

tagata faafeiloai (police officer). (various references)

Scottish

searsanach (a sheriff officer), maor (an officer of justice or of estates, subordinate officer in various), gàidsear (excise officer, gauger). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oficir (ranker), zapovedati (boss, command, order), referent (correspondent, referent), policajac (bobby, constable, cop, flatfoot, jack, patrolman, peace officer, police constable, police officer, policeman, portreeve, sowar, trooper), komandovati (boss, command), činovnik (incumbent, office bearer, official, placeholder, red tape). (various references)

Spanish

funcionario (clerk, functionary, official, servant), oficial (commissioned, employee, formal, government, journeyman, offical, office worker, official, recognized), empleado (clerk, employee, help, official, servant, used). (various references)

Sranan

lantibakra (official). (various references)

Swahili

afisa. (various references)

Swedish

officer (liaison, ranker), tjänsteman (clerk, employee, functionary, office bearer, office holder, official), ämbetsman (functionary, office bearer, office holder, official, public servant). (various references)

Turkish

subayları atamak, subay, polis memuru (constable, cop, peace officer, police officer), memur (civil servant, government employee, government official, incumbent, office bearer, office holder, official, public servant, servant, white collar, white collar worker), komuta etmek (be in command, command, direct), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, look after, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise). (various references)

Turkmen 

ofiser (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

урядовець, службовець (employee, official, servant), службова особа (administrator, office bearer, office holder, official), член правління клубу, чиновник (clerk, functionary, office bearer, office holder, official, officiary, placeman), констебль (constable), командувати (command, order about, order around, rule the roost), командир (captain, commander), капітан на торговельному судні, офіцерський склад (officership, quarter deck), офіцер (captain), полісмен, поліцай (badge, peon). (various references)

Vietnamese 

viên chức cảnh sát giám đốc, thư ký (secretary), sĩ quan nhân viên chính quyền, nhân viên (all-up). (various references)

Welsh

swyddog (official). (various references)

legati, legatos, legatum, legatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "officer": officered, officering, officers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Officer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hoffaker, Iftikar, officier, opfficer, orficer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: coffer, coiffe, office.

-2 letters: fifer, force, offer.

-3 letters: cero, cire, coff, coif, coir, core, corf, fice, fico, fief, fife, fire, foci, fore, froe, reif, rice, rife, riff.

-4 letters: cor, eff, fer, fie, fir, foe, for, fro, ice, iff, ire, off, orc, ore, rec, ref, rei, rif, roc, roe.

-5 letters: ef, er, if, oe, of, or.

+1 letter: coiffeur, coiffure, officers.

+2 letters: coffering, coiffeurs, coiffured, coiffures, officered.

+3 letters: chiffonier, chifforobe, officering.

+4 letters: chiffoniers, chifforobes, interoffice, officiaries.

+5 letters: efflorescing, officeholder.