| peradventure | (noun) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case | - |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, perchance, perhaps, possibly |
| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| perambulation | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, promenade, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries | - |
| perambulator | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, pram, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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| percale | (noun) a fine closely woven cotton fabric | - |
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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 | - |
| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| 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 |
| 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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| perceptible | (adjective) capable of being perceived by the mind or senses | - |
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| (adjective) easily seen or detected | Synonyms: detectable |
| perceptibly | (adverb) in a noticeable manner | Synonyms: noticeably, observably |
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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 | - |
| perceptive | (adjective) having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to perception | - |
| perceptively | (adverb) in a perceptive manner | - |
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| 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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| perceptual | (adjective) of or relating to the act of perceiving | - |
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| perceptuality | (noun) The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. | - |
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| perceptually | (adverb) with regard to perception | - |
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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 |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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| (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
| 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 | (adjective) characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | Synonyms: clear |
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| (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
| 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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| (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
| (verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) spread gradually | - |
| 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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| percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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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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| percussive | (adjective) involving percussion or featuring percussive 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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| 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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| perdition | (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Synonyms: Hell, infernal region, Inferno, nether region, pit |
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| perdurability | (noun) the property of being extremely durable | - |
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| perdurable | (adjective) very long lasting | Synonyms: durable, indestructible, undestroyable |
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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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| 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 |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense |
| (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
| perfecta | (noun) a bet that you can pick the first and second finishers in the right order | Synonyms: exacta |
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| perfected | (adjective) (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | - |
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| perfecter | (noun) a skilled worker who perfects something | - |
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| perfectibility | (noun) the capability of becoming perfect | - |
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| perfectible | (adjective) capable of becoming or being made perfect | - |
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| perfection | (noun) the act of making something perfect | - |
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| (noun) an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | Synonyms: beau ideal, idol, paragon |
| (noun) the state of being without a flaw or defect | Synonyms: flawlessness, ne plus ultra |
| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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| perfectionist | (noun) a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards | - |
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| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| perfectly | (adverb) completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: absolutely, dead, utterly |
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| (adverb) in a perfect or faultless way | - |
| 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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| perfidiously | (adverb) in a perfidious manner | - |
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| perfidiousness | (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidy, treachery |
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| perfidy | (noun) an act of deliberate betrayal | Synonyms: betrayal, treachery, treason |
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| (noun) betrayal of a trust | Synonyms: perfidiousness, treachery |
| perfluorocarbon | (noun) a powerful greenhouse gas emitted during the production of aluminum | Synonyms: PFC |
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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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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perforated | (adjective) having a number or series of holes | - |
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| (adjective) having a hole cut through | Synonyms: perforate, pierced, punctured |
| perforation | (noun) the act of punching a hole (especially a row of holes as for ease of separation) | - |
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| (noun) a line of small holes for tearing at a particular place | - |
| (noun) a hole made in something | - |
| perforce | (adverb) by necessity; by force of circumstance | - |
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| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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| (noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
| (noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
| (noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
| performer | (noun) an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | Synonyms: performing artist |
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| performing | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, playacting, playing |
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| perfume | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: essence |
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| (noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, scent |
| (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| 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 |
| perfumer | (noun) a person who makes (and sells) perfumes | - |
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| perfumery | (noun) the art of making perfumes | - |
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| (noun) an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| (noun) store where perfumes are sold | - |
| (noun) perfumes in general | - |
| perfunctorily | (adverb) in a set manner without serious attention; as a formality | Synonyms: pro forma |
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| 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 |
| perfuse | (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: suffuse |
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| (verb) force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) | - |
| perfusion | (noun) pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) | - |
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| pergola | (noun) a framework that supports climbing plants | Synonyms: arbor, arbour, bower |
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| perhaps | (adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perchance, possibly |
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| peri | (noun) a beautiful and graceful girl | - |
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| (noun) (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done | - |
| perianal | (adjective) around the anus | - |
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| perianth | (noun) collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | Synonyms: chlamys, floral envelope, perigone, perigonium |
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| periapsis | (noun) (astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited | Synonyms: point of periapsis |
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| periarteritis | (noun) inflammation of the outer coat of an artery | - |
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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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| pericarditis | (noun) inflammation of the pericardium | - |
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