| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| perbend | noun | See Perpender. |
| percale | noun | A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, — used for women’s and children’s wear. |
| percase | adverb | Perhaps; perchance. |
| percely | noun | Parsley. |
| percept | noun | That which is perceived. |
| perched | imp. & past participle | of Perch |
| percher | verb i. | One who, or that which, perches., One of the Insessores., A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. |
| percoid | adjective | Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae., Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae. |
| percuss | verb t. | To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination., To strike or tap in an examination by percussion. See Percussion, 3. |
| perdure | verb i. | To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting. |
| peregal | adjective | Fully equal. |
| perempt | verb t. | To destroy; to defeat. |
| perfect | adjective | Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct., Well informed; certain; sure., Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; — said of flower., The perfect tense, or a form in that tense., To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. |
| perfidy | noun | The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery. |
| perform | verb t. | To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do., To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow., To represent; to act; to play; as in drama., To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one’s self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ. |
| perfume | verb t. | To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent., The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma., A substance that emits an agreeable odor. |
| perfuse | verb t. | To suffuse; to fill full or to excess. |
| perhaps | adverb | By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be. |
| periapt | noun | A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet. |
| peridia | plural | of Peridium |
| peridot | noun | Chrysolite. |
| perigee | noun | Alt. of Perigeum |
| periled | imp. & past participle | of Peril |
| perilla | noun | A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage. |
| perisse | verb i. | To perish. |
| periwig | noun | A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig., To dress with a periwig, or with false hair. |
| perjure | verb t. | To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; — often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself., To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations., A perjured person. |
| perjury | verb | False swearing., At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations. |
| perking | present participle & vb. noun | of Perk |
| perlite | noun | Same as Pearlite. |
| perlous | adjective | Perilous. |
| permian | adjective | Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era., The Permian period. See Chart of Geology. |
| permiss | noun | A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one’s opponent. |
| permute | verb t. | To interchange; to transfer reciprocally., To exchange; to barter; to traffic. |
| perogue | noun | See Pirogue. |
| perpend | verb t. | To weight carefully in the mind., To attend; to be attentive. |
| perplex | adjective | To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts., To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety., To plague; to vex; to tormen., Intricate; difficult. |
| perrier | noun | A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot. |
| persalt | noun | A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. |
| persant | adjective | Piercing. |
| perseid | noun | One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862. |
| perseus | noun | A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa., A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula. |
| persian | adjective | Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language., A native or inhabitant of Persia., The language spoken in Persia., A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings., See Persian columns, under Persian, a. |
| persism | noun | A Persian idiom. |
| persist | verb i. | To stand firm; to be fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; — sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy. |
| persona | noun | Same as Person, n., 8. |
| pertain | verb i. | To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life., To have relation or reference to something. |
| perturb | verb t. | To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet., To disorder; to confuse. |
| pertuse | adjective | Alt. of Pertused |
| perulae | plural | of Perula |
| perusal | noun | The act of carefully viewing or examining., The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. |
| perused | imp. & past participle | of Peruse |
| peruser | noun | One who peruses. |
| pervade | verb t. | To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate., To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout. |
| pervert | verb t. | To turnanother way; to divert., To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one’s words., To become perverted; to take the wrong course., One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; — opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert. |
| pervial | adjective | Pervious. |