| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| peachy | adjective | Resembling a peach or peaches. |
| peahen | noun | The hen or female peafowl. |
| peaked | imp. & past participle | of Peak, Pointed; ending in a point; as, a peaked roof., Sickly; not robust. |
| pealed | imp. & past participle | of Peal |
| peanut | noun | The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. |
| pearch | noun | See Perch. |
| pearly | adjective | Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells., Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood. |
| peases | plural | of Pease |
| peasen | plural | of Pease |
| pebble | noun | A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone., Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian pebble; — so called by opticians., To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences. |
| pebbly | adjective | Full of pebbles; pebbled. |
| pecary | noun | See Peccary. |
| pecked | imp. & past participle | of Peck |
| pecker | noun | One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker., An instrument for pecking; a pick. |
| pecora | noun pl. | An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle. |
| pecten | noun | A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; — also called marsupium., The pubic bone., Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop., The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b). |
| pectic | adjective | Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist. |
| pectin | noun | One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling. |
| pectus | noun | The breast of a bird. |
| pedage | noun | A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe-conduct and protection. |
| pedant | noun | A schoolmaster; a pedagogue., One who puts on an air of learning; one who makes a vain display of learning; a pretender to superior knowledge. |
| pedary | noun | A sandal. |
| pedata | noun pl. | An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. |
| pedate | adjective | Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; — said of a leaf. |
| peddle | verb i. | To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license., To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle., To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware. |
| pedial | adjective | Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal. |
| pedlar | noun | Alt. of Pedler |
| pedler | noun | See Peddler. |
| peechi | noun | The dauw. |
| peeled | imp. & past participle | of Peel |
| peeler | noun | One who peels or strips., A pillager., A nickname for a policeman; — so called from Sir Robert Peel. |
| peenge | verb i. | To complain. |
| peeped | imp. & past participle | of Peep |
| peeper | noun | A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird., One who peeps; a prying person; a spy., The eye; as, to close the peepers. |
| peered | imp. & past participle | of Peer |
| peerie | adjective | Alt. of Peery |
| peevit | noun | Alt. of Peewit |
| peewit | noun | See Pewit. |
| pegged | imp. & past participle | of Peg |
| pegger | noun | One who fastens with pegs. |
| pelage | noun | The covering, or coat, of a mammal, whether of wool, fur, or hair. |
| pelfry | noun | Pelf; also, figuratively, rubbish; trash. |
| pelick | noun | The American coot (Fulica). |
| peliom | noun | A variety of iolite, of a smoky blue color; pelioma. |
| pellet | noun | A little ball; as, a pellet of wax / paper., A bullet; a ball for firearms., To form into small balls. |
| pelted | imp. & past participle | of Pelt |
| peltae | plural | of Pelta |
| pelter | noun | One who pelts., A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. |
| peltry | noun | Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs. |
| peludo | noun | The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus). |
| pelvic | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis. |
| pelvis | noun | The pelvic arch, or the pelvic arch together with the sacrum. See Pelvic arch, under Pelvic, and Sacrum., The calyx of a crinoid. |
| penned | imp. & past participle | of Pen, of Pen, Winged; having plumes., Written with a pen; composed. |
| penary | adjective | Penal. |
| pencel | noun | A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; — called also pennoncel. |
| pencil | noun | A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors., A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, — used for drawing or writing. See Graphite., Hence, figuratively, an artist’s ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc., An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point., A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point., A small medicated bougie., To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. |
| pended | imp. & past participle | of Pend |
| penmen | plural | of Penman |
| penman | noun | One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master., An author; a composer. |
| pennae | plural | of Penna |
| penner | noun | One who pens; a writer., A case for holding pens. |
| pennon | noun | A wing; a pinion., A pennant; a flag or streamer. |
| penock | noun | See Pend. |
| pensel | noun | A pencel. |
| penta- | A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon., Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively. | |
| pentad | noun | Any element, atom, or radical, having a valence of five, or which can be combined with, substituted for, or compared with, five atoms of hydrogen or other monad; as, nitrogen is a pentad in the ammonium compounds., Having the valence of a pentad. |
| pentyl | noun | The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl. |
| penult | noun | The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one. |
| penury | noun | Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution., Penuriousness; miserliness. |
| people | noun | The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation., Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; — sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity., The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people., One’s ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English., One’s subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers., To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. |
| peplis | noun | A genus of plants including water purslane. |
| peplus | noun | An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women., A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. |
| pepper | noun | A well-known, pungently aromatic condiment, the dried berry, either whole or powdered, of the Piper nigrum., The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth., Any plant of the genus Capsicum, and its fruit; red pepper; as, the bell pepper., To sprinkle or season with pepper., Figuratively: To shower shot or other missiles, or blows, upon; to pelt; to fill with shot, or cover with bruises or wounds., To fire numerous shots (at). |
| pepsin | noun | An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all animals. |
| peptic | adjective | Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces., Able to digest., Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands., An agent that promotes digestion., The digestive organs. |
| peract | verb t. | To go through with; to perform. |
| perdie | adverb | See Parde. |
| perdix | noun | A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera. |
| perdue | adjective | Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close., Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. |
| perfit | adjective | Perfect. |
| perfix | verb t. | To fix surely; to appoint. |
| period | noun | A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet., A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic., One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology., The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion., A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence., The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word., One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals., The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission., A complete musical sentence., To put an end to., To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] “You may period upon this, that,” etc. |
| perish | verb i. | To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away., To cause perish. |
| perite | adjective | Skilled. |
| perked | imp. & past participle | of Perk |
| perkin | noun | A kind of weak perry. |
| perlid | noun | Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See Stone fly, under Stone. |
| permit | verb t. | To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with., To grant (one) express license or liberty to do an act; to authorize; to give leave; — followed by an infinitive., To give over; to resign; to leave; to commit., To grant permission; to allow., Warrant; license; leave; permission; specifically, a written license or permission given to a person or persons having authority; as, a permit to land goods subject to duty. |
| permix | verb t. | To mix; to mingle. |
| pernel | noun | See Pimpernel. |
| pernio | noun | A chilblain. |
| pernor | verb | One who receives the profits, as of an estate. |
| perrie | noun | Precious stones; jewels. |
| persic | adjective | Of or relating to Persia., The Persian language. |
| persis | noun | A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens. |
| person | noun | A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character., The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person., A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child., A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present., A parson; the parish priest., Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis., One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject., A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals., To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |
| pertly | adverb | In a pert manner. |
| peruke | noun | A wig; a periwig., To dress with a peruke. |
| perula | noun | One of the scales of a leaf bud., A pouchlike portion of the perianth in certain orchides. |
| perule | noun | Same as Perula. |
| peruse | verb t. | To observe; to examine with care., To read through; to read carefully. |
| pervis | noun | See Parvis. |
| pesade | noun | The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing. |
| pesage | noun | A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise. |
| pesane | noun | See Pusane. |
| peseta | noun | A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos. |
| pester | verb t. | To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations., To crowd together in an annoying way; to overcrowd; to infest. |
| pestle | noun | An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar., A constable’s or bailiff’s staff; — so called from its shape., The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork., To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle. |
| petted | imp. & past participle | of Pet |
| petala | plural | of Petalum |
| petard | noun | A case containing powder to be exploded, esp. a conical or cylindrical case of metal filled with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded. |
| petong | noun | See Packfong. |
| petrel | noun | Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey’s chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera. |
| petro- | A combining form from Gr. / a rock, / a stone; as, petrology, petroglyphic. | |
| petrol | noun | Petroleum. |
| peucil | noun | A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. |
| pewter | noun | A hard, tough, but easily fusible, alloy, originally consisting of tin with a little lead, but afterwards modified by the addition of copper, antimony, or bismuth., Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots. |
| pexity | noun | Nap of cloth. |
| peziza | noun | A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some of which are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors. |