| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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| perceiver | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, percipient |
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| percent | (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percentage |
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| percentage | (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, portion, share |
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| (noun) a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent | Synonyms: pct, per centum, percent |
| percentile | (noun) (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | Synonyms: centile |
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| percept | (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: perception, perceptual experience |
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| perceptibility | (noun) the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses | - |
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| perception | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: sensing |
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| (noun) the process of perceiving | - |
| (noun) the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept | Synonyms: percept, perceptual experience |
| (noun) a way of conceiving something | - |
| (noun) knowledge gained by perceiving | - |
| perceptiveness | (noun) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | - |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, taste |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: discernment |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptivity |
| perceptivity | (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptiveness |
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| perceptuality | (noun) The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. | - |
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| perch | (noun) spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes | - |
| (noun) support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird) | - |
| (noun) any of numerous fishes of America and Europe | - |
| (noun) an elevated place serving as a seat | - |
| (noun) a linear measure of 16.5 feet | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| (noun) a square rod of land | Synonyms: pole, rod |
| percher | (noun) a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists | Synonyms: Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird |
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| (noun) a person situated on a perch | - |
| perchlorate | (noun) a salt of perchloric acid | - |
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| perchloride | (noun) a chloride containing an unusually high proportion of chlorine | - |
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| perchloromethane | (noun) a colorless nonflammable liquid used as a solvent for fats and oils; because of its toxicity its use as a cleaning fluid or fire extinguisher has declined | Synonyms: carbon tet, carbon tetrachloride, tetrachloromethane |
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| percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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| percoid | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid fish, percoidean |
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| percoidean | (noun) any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | Synonyms: percoid, percoid fish |
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| percolate | (noun) the product of percolation | - |
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| percolation | (noun) the act of making coffee in a percolator | - |
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| (noun) the filtration of a liquid for extraction or purification | - |
| (noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: infiltration |
| percolator | (noun) a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans | - |
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| percussion | (noun) the act of exploding a percussion cap | - |
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| (noun) the act of playing a percussion instrument | - |
| (noun) tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes | Synonyms: pleximetry |
| (noun) the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments | Synonyms: percussion section, rhythm section |
| percussionist | (noun) a musician who plays percussion instruments | - |
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| percussor | (noun) (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | Synonyms: plessor, plexor |
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