8-letter words containing pe
- permeant — permeating; pervading.
- permease — any of the proteins that mediate the transport of various molecules across biological membranes.
- permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
- pernancy — a taking or receiving, as of the rents or profits of an estate.
- peroneal — pertaining to or situated near the fibula.
- peroneus — any of several muscles on the outer side of the leg, the action of which assists in extending the foot and in turning it outward.
- peronism — the principles or policies of Juan Perón.
- peronist — a supporter of Juan Perón or of his principles and policies.
- perorate — to speak at length; make a long, usually grandiloquent speech.
- peroxide — Chemistry. hydrogen peroxide, H 2 O 2 or H–O–O–H. a compound containing the bivalent group –O 2 –, derived from hydrogen peroxide, as sodium peroxide, Na 2 O 2 , or dimethyl peroxide, C 3 H 6 O 2 . the oxide of an element that contains an unusually large amount of oxygen.
- perrault — Charles [chahrlz;; French sharl] /tʃɑrlz;; French ʃarl/ (Show IPA), 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.
- perronet — Jean Rodolphe [zhahn raw-dawlf] /ʒɑ̃ rɔˈdɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1708–94, French engineer.
- perseids — the heavy meteor showers visible annually about Aug. 12: they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus
- perseity — (in medieval philosophy) the quality of those things having substance independently of any real object.
- pershing — a 38-foot (12 meters) U.S. Army surface-to-surface nuclear missile with a single warhead and range of more than 1000 miles (1609 km).
- persians — of or relating to ancient and recent Persia (now Iran), its people, or their language.
- persicot — a sweet beverage that is made from the stones of apricots or peaches that are soaked or pulverized in distilled liquid or alcohol
- personae — a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.
- personal — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- perspire — to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
- perspiry — sweaty
- persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
- pertains — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- perthite — a variety of feldspar containing irregular bands of albite in microcline.
- perugino — (Pietro Vannucci) 1446–1524, Italian painter.
- peruvian — Spanish Perú [pe-roo] /pɛˈru/ (Show IPA). a republic in W South America. 496,222 sq. mi. (1,285,215 sq. km). Capital: Lima.
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- perviate — to enter, bore into, or run through
- pervious — admitting of passage or entrance; permeable: pervious soil.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- peshitta — the principal Syriac version of the Bible.
- pessimal — /pes'im-l/ (Latin-based antonym for "optimal") Maximally bad. "This is a pessimal situation." Also "pessimise" To make as bad as possible. These words are the obvious Latin-based antonyms for "optimal" and "optimise", but for some reason they do not appear in most English dictionaries, although "pessimise" is listed in the OED.
- pestered — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
- pesthole — a place infested with or especially liable to epidemic disease.
- pet food — feed for domestic animals
- pet hate — sth disliked intensely
- pet name — a name or a term of address used to express affection for a person, thing, etc.
- pet scan — an image obtained by positron emission tomography, using a PET scanner.
- pet shop — a shop selling animals intended as pets
- petabyte — 2 50 bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.
- petaflop — a measure of processing speed, consisting of 1015 floating-point operations a second
- petaline — pertaining to or resembling a petal.
- petalism — a form of expulsion that typically lasted for five years and was dealt to those who were seen to have treacherous aspirations and objectives and was carried out in Syracuse in Ancient Greece
- petalite — a mineral, lithium aluminum silicate, Li(AlSi 4 O 1 0), occurring in colorless or white foliated masses: an important source of lithium.
- petalody — a condition in flowers, in which certain organs, as the stamens in most double flowers, assume the appearance of or become metamorphosed into petals.
- petaloid — having the form or appearance of a petal.
- petalous — having petals.
- petaluma — a city in W California, N of San Francisco.
- petanque — a form of lawn bowling originating in France, usually played on rough ground using steel balls.
- petavius — a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.