| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| ampere | (noun) the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: A, amp |
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| (noun) a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the SI ampere) | Synonyms: international ampere |
| aperea | (noun) South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig | Synonyms: Cavia porcellus, wild cavy |
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| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: emcee |
| hyperemesis | (noun) severe and excessive vomiting | - |
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| hyperemia | (noun) increased blood in an organ or other body part | Synonyms: hyperaemia |
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| hyperemic | (adjective) relating to or caused by hyperemia | - |
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| hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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| hyperextension | (noun) greater than normal extension | - |
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| milliampere | (noun) one thousandth of an ampere | Synonyms: mA |
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| operetta | (noun) a short amusing opera | Synonyms: light opera |
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| pamperer | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, spoiler |
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| paperer | (noun) one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanger |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| peregrination | (noun) traveling or wandering around | - |
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| peregrine | (adjective) migratory | Synonyms: mobile, nomadic, roving, wandering |
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| (noun) a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | Synonyms: Falco peregrinus, peregrine falcon |
| peremptorily | (adverb) in an imperative and commanding manner | Synonyms: imperatively |
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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 | - |
| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| perennation | (noun) the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant) | - |
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| 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 | - |
| (noun) (botany) a plant lasting for three seasons or more | - |
| perennially | (adverb) in a perennial manner; repeatedly | - |
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| perestroika | (noun) an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy | - |
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| simperer | (noun) a smiler whose smile is silly and self-conscious and sometimes coy | - |
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| slippered | (adjective) shod with slippers | - |
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| stoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having a stopper in the opening | - |
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| superego | (noun) (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience | - |
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| supererogation | (noun) an effort above and beyond the call of duty | - |
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| supererogatory | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus |
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| tapered | (adjective) becoming gradually narrower | Synonyms: narrowing, tapering |
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| tempered | (adjective) adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element | - |
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| (adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, toughened, treated |
| unhampered | (adjective) not held in check or subject to control | - |
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| (adjective) not slowed or blocked or interfered with | Synonyms: unhindered |
| unstoppered | (adjective) (of a container) having the stopper removed | - |
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| untempered | (adjective) not moderated or controlled | - |
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| (adjective) not brought to a proper consistency or hardness | Synonyms: unhardened |
| wallpaperer | (noun) a worker who papers walls | Synonyms: wall-paperer |
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| whispered | (adjective) spoken in soft hushed tones without vibrations of the vocal cords | - |
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| whisperer | (noun) one who speaks in a whisper | - |
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