8-letter words starting with per
- per cent — Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
- per diem — by the day; for each day.
- per mill — per thousand.
- per unit — Per unit is a way of expressing the value of a quantity in terms of a reference or base quantity.
- per-oral — administered or performed through the mouth, as surgery or administration of a drug.
- peracute — (of diseases, chiefly in animals) very severe; very acute
- perborax — sodium perborate.
- perceant — piercing; penetrating
- perceive — to become aware of, know, or identify by means of the senses: I perceived an object looming through the mist.
- percepts — the mental result or product of perceiving, as distinguished from the act of perceiving; an impression or sensation of something perceived.
- perceval — Spencer, 1762–1812, British statesman: prime minister 1809–12.
- perchery — a barn in which hens are allowed to move without restriction
- percival — Also, Perceval, Percivale. Arthurian Romance. a knight of King Arthur's court who sought the Holy Grail: comparable to Parzival or Parsifal in Teutonic legend.
- perclose — parclose.
- percolin — a pain-relieving drug
- perdendo — (of a piece of music) getting gradually quieter and dying away
- perelman — S(idney) J(oseph) 1904–79, U.S. author.
- perentie — a large, brown and yellow monitor lizard, Varanus giganteus, native to arid and semiarid regions of Australia.
- perfecta — exacta.
- perfecti — the elite group of the Cathars, characterized by their extreme asceticism, and thereby viewed by their followers as trans-material angels
- perfecto — a rather thick, medium-sized cigar tapering almost down to a point at each end.
- perforce — of necessity; necessarily; by force of circumstance: The story must perforce be true.
- perforin — a protein produced by killer cells of the immune system that causes disintegration of targeted cells by forming pores in their membranes.
- perfumed — Something such as fruit or wine that is perfumed has a sweet pleasant smell.
- perfumer — a person or thing that perfumes.
- perfused — to overspread with moisture, color, etc.; suffuse.
- pergamon — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamos — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- pergamum — an ancient Greek kingdom on the coast of Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- perianth — the envelope of a flower, whether calyx or corolla or both.
- periblem — the histogen in plants that gives rise to the cortex.
- pericarp — the walls of a ripened ovary or fruit, sometimes consisting of three layers, the epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp.
- pericles — c495–429 b.c, Athenian statesman.
- pericope — a selection or extract from a book.
- periderm — Botany. the cork-producing tissue of stems together with the cork layers and other tissues derived from it.
- peridial — of or pertaining to the peridium
- peridium — the outer enveloping coat of the fruit body in many fungi.
- perigord — a division of the former province of Guienne, in SW France.
- perigyny — Botany. a perigynous condition.
- perilous — involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
- perilune — the point in a lunar orbit that is nearest to the moon.
- perineal — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- perineum — the area in front of the anus extending to the fourchette of the vulva in the female and to the scrotum in the male.
- periodic — of or derived from a periodic acid.
- periodid — kind of iodide
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- peripety — a sudden turn of events or an unexpected reversal, especially in a literary work.
- periplus — a descriptive account of a voyage, esp of a circumnavigation
- peripter — (in Classical architecture) a building, esp a temple, with a single row of columns surrounding it on all sides
- perisarc — the horny or chitinous outer case or covering protecting the soft parts of hydrozoans.
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