| 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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