| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| perseveration | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, persistence |
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| (noun) the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it | - |
| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| persevering | (adjective) quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness | Synonyms: diligent |
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| perseveringly | (adverb) with perseverance | - |
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| persicot | (noun) a cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit. | - |
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| persiflage | (noun) light teasing | - |
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| persimmon | (noun) orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe | - |
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| (noun) any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | Synonyms: persimmon tree |
| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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| (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
| (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
| persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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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 |
| persistently | (adverb) with persistence | - |
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| (adverb) in a persistent manner | - |
| 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 |
| person | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul |
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| (noun) a human body (usually including the clothing) | - |
| (noun) a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party | - |
| persona | (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: image |
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| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, role, theatrical role |
| personable | (adjective) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
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| personableness | (noun) the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive | - |
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| personage | (noun) another word for person; a person not meriting identification | - |
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| (noun) a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Synonyms: important person, influential person |
| 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 | - |
| (noun) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group | - |
| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| personality | (noun) the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual | - |
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| (noun) a person of considerable prominence | - |
| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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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 | - |
| personally | (adverb) as a person | - |
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| (adverb) as yourself | - |
| (adverb) concerning the speaker | - |
| (adverb) in a personal way | - |
| (adverb) in the flesh; without involving anyone else | Synonyms: in person |
| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| personation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, portrayal |
| personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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| personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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| (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
| (noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
| personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
| personnel | (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management | Synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office |
| perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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| (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
| perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| perspicuously | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly |
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| perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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| perspiration | (noun) salty fluid secreted by sweat glands | Synonyms: sudor, sweat |
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| (noun) the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid | Synonyms: diaphoresis, hidrosis, sudation, sweating |
| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| perspirer | (noun) a person who perspires | Synonyms: sweater |
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| persuadable | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuasible, suasible |
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| persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
| persuader | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: inducer |
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| persuasible | (adjective) being susceptible to persuasion | Synonyms: convincible, persuadable, suasible |
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| persuasion | (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, sentiment, thought, view |
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| (noun) the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | Synonyms: suasion |
| persuasive | (adjective) intended or having the power to induce action or belief | - |
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| persuasively | (adverb) in a persuasive manner | - |
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| persuasiveness | (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: strength |
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| pert | (adjective) characterized by a lightly pert and exuberant quality | Synonyms: impertinent, irreverent, saucy |
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| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| pertainym | (noun) meaning relating to or pertaining to | - |
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| pertinacious | (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding |
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| pertinaciously | (adverb) in a dogged and pertinacious manner | - |
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| pertinacity | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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| pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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| pertinency | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinence |
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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 |
| pertinently | (adverb) in a pertinent way | - |
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| pertly | (adverb) in an impudent or impertinent manner | Synonyms: freshly, impertinently, impudently, saucily |
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| pertness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, perkiness, sauciness |
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| (noun) quality of being lively and confident | - |
| perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
| (verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
| (verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
| perturbation | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: disruption |
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| (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: fluster |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: disturbance |
| (noun) (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly | - |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, upset |
| 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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| pertussis | (noun) a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane | Synonyms: whooping cough |
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| peruke | (noun) a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwig |
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| peruked | (adjective) wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | Synonyms: periwigged |
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| perusal | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusing, poring over, studying |
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| peruse | (verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail | - |
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| perusing | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, poring over, studying |
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| perv | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perve, pervert |
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| (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perve |
| pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
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| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| pervaporation | (noun) the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off | - |
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| pervasion | (noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | Synonyms: permeation, suffusion |
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| pervasive | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeating, permeative |
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| pervasively | (adverb) in a pervasive manner | - |
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| pervasiveness | (noun) the quality of filling or spreading throughout | - |
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| perve | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perv, pervert |
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| (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perv |
| 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 | - |
| perversely | (adverb) deliberately deviant | - |
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| (adverb) in a contrary disobedient manner | Synonyms: contrarily, contrariwise |
| perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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| (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
| perversion | (noun) the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) | - |
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| (noun) an aberrant sexual practice | Synonyms: sexual perversion |
| (noun) a curve that reverses the direction of something | - |
| perversity | (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perverseness |
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| (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perverseness |
| perversive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: corruptive, pestiferous |
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| pervert | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, deviate, perv, perve |
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| (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| 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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| perviousness | (noun) the quality of being penetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) | Synonyms: penetrability |
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| pes | (noun) the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint | Synonyms: foot, human foot |
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| pesantran | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantren |
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| pesantren | (noun) a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders | Synonyms: pesantran |
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| peseta | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Spain; equal to 100 centimos | Synonyms: Spanish peseta |
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| pesewa | (noun) 100 pesewas equal 1 cedi in Ghana | - |
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| peshmerga | (noun) a member of a Kurdish guerilla organization that fights for a free Kurdish state | - |
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