| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| perceivable | (adjective) capable of being apprehended or understood | Synonyms: apprehensible, graspable, intelligible, understandable |
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| (adjective) capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing | - |
| perceived | (adjective) detected by means of the senses | - |
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| (adjective) detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | Synonyms: sensed |
| perceptible | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the mind or senses | - |
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| (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| perceptual | (adjective) of or relating to the act of perceiving | - |
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| percipient | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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| percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | - |
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| percutaneous | (adjective) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches) | Synonyms: transcutaneous, transdermal, transdermic |
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| perdurable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, undestroyable |
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| peregrine | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering |
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| peremptory | (adjective) putting an end to all debate or action | - |
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| (adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial |
| (adjective) not allowing contradiction or refusal | - |
| perennial | (adjective) lasting three seasons or more | - |
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| (adjective) recurring again and again | Synonyms: recurrent, repeated |
| (adjective) lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal | - |
| perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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| (adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| perfected | (adjective) (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | - |
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| perfectible | (adjective) capable of becoming or being made perfect | - |
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| perfervid | (adjective) characterized by intense emotion | Synonyms: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, torrid |
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| perfidious | (adjective) tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | Synonyms: punic, treacherous |
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| perfoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem | - |
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| perforate | (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforated, pierced, punctured |
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| perforated | (adjective) having a number or series of holes | - |
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| (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, pierced, punctured |
| perfumed | (adjective) having a natural fragrance | Synonyms: odoriferous, odorous, scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling, sweet |
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| (adjective) filled or impregnated with perfume | Synonyms: scented |
| perfunctory | (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, passing, superficial |
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| (adjective) done or produced as a formality only | Synonyms: pro forma |
| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| pericardiac | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardial |
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| pericardial | (adjective) located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium | Synonyms: pericardiac |
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| perigonal | (adjective) of or relating to a perigone | - |
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| perilous | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, precarious, touch-and-go |
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| perinasal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perirhinal |
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| perinatal | (adjective) occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after) | - |
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| perineal | (adjective) of or relating to the perineum | - |
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| periodic | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodical |
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| (adjective) recurring or reappearing from time to time | Synonyms: occasional |
| periodical | (adjective) happening or recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodic |
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| periodontal | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontic |
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| periodontic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving or practicing periodontics | Synonyms: periodontal |
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| peripatetic | (adjective) of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy | Synonyms: Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Aristotelic |
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| (adjective) traveling especially on foot | Synonyms: wayfaring |
| peripheral | (adjective) on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area | - |
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| (adjective) related to the key issue but not of central importance | - |
| periphrastic | (adjective) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory |
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| peripteral | (adjective) having columns on all sides | - |
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| perirhinal | (adjective) near the nose | Synonyms: perinasal |
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| perishable | (adjective) liable to perish; subject to destruction or death or decay | - |
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| peristylar | (adjective) having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | Synonyms: pseudoperipteral |
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| perithelial | (adjective) of or relating to the tissue layer around small blood vessels | - |
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| peritoneal | (adjective) of or relating to or affecting the peritoneum | - |
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| peritrichous | (adjective) covered all over with uniformly distributed flagella | - |
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| periwigged | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: peruked |
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| perky | (adjective) characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness | Synonyms: buoyant, chirpy |
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| permanent | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition | - |
| permeable | (adjective) allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through | - |
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| permeant | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeating, permeative, pervasive |
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| permeating | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive |
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| permeative | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, pervasive |
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| permed | (adjective) (of hair) styled with permanent waves | - |
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| permissible | (adjective) that may be permitted especially as according to rule | Synonyms: allowable |
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| (adjective) that may be accepted or conceded | - |
| permissive | (adjective) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | - |
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| (adjective) not preventive | - |
| permutable | (adjective) capable of changing sequence | Synonyms: transposable |
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| pernicious | (adjective) working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | Synonyms: insidious, subtle |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pestilent |
| pernickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: persnickety |
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| peroneal | (adjective) of or relating to the fibula or the outer part of the leg below the knee | - |
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| perpendicular | (adjective) intersecting at or forming right angles | - |
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| (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: vertical |
| (adjective) so steep as to be nearly vertical | - |
| perpetual | (adjective) uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | Synonyms: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, unceasing, unremitting |
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| (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, ageless, eonian, eternal, everlasting, unceasing, unending |
| perplexed | (adjective) full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | - |
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| perplexing | (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, puzzling |
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| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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| (adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| persnickety | (adjective) characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | Synonyms: pernickety |
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| (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish |
| personable | (adjective) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
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| personal | (adjective) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality | - |
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| (adjective) indicating grammatical person | - |
| (adjective) of or arising from personality | - |
| (adjective) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being | - |
| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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| (adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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| persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pertinent | (adjective) being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | Synonyms: apposite, apt |
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| (adjective) having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand | Synonyms: to the point |
| perturbed | (adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled |
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| perturbing | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| peruked | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwigged |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| perverse | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverted, reprobate |
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| (adjective) resistant to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrary, obstinate, wayward |
| (adjective) marked by a disposition to oppose and contradict | - |
| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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| perverted | (adjective) (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes | Synonyms: kinky |
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| (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, reprobate |
| (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, misrepresented, twisted |
| pervious | (adjective) admitting of passage or entrance | - |
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