7-letter words starting with pe
- persona — a person.
- persons — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.
- perspex — acrylic material: artificial glass
- persson — Göran [yœ-rahn] /ˈyœ rɑn/ (Show IPA), born 1949, prime minister of Sweden 1996–2006.
- pertain — to have reference or relation; relate: documents pertaining to the lawsuit.
- pertest — boldly forward in speech or behavior; impertinent; saucy.
- perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- pertuse — punctured or perforated
- perugia — a city in central Umbria, in central Italy.
- peruked — having or wearing the type of hair-piece known as a peruke
- perukes — a man's wig of the 17th and 18th centuries, usually powdered and gathered at the back of the neck with a ribbon; periwig.
- perusal — a reading: a perusal of the current books.
- peruser — to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
- peruzzi — Baldassare Tommaso [bahl-dahs-sah-re tawm-mah-zaw] /ˌbɑl dɑsˈsɑ rɛ tɔmˈmɑ zɔ/ (Show IPA), 1481–1536, Italian architect and painter.
- perv on — to make unwanted sexual advances towards
- pervade — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
- pervert — to affect with perversion.
- pesante — in a forceful or weighty manner
- pescara — a city in E Italy, on the Adriatic Sea.
- peshito — the standard translation of the Old and New Testaments in ancient Syriac
- pessary — a device worn in the vagina to support a displaced uterus.
- pessima — the lowest or worst state of affairs
- pet day — a single fine day during a period of bad weather
- petaled — one of the often colored segments of the corolla of a flower.
- petasos — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petasus — a broad-brimmed hat worn by ancient Greek travelers and hunters, often represented in art as a winged hat worn by Hermes or Mercury.
- petcock — a small valve or faucet, as for draining off excess or waste material from the cylinder of a steam engine or an internal-combustion engine.
- peteman — peterman.
- peter i — ("the Great") 1672–1725, czar of Russia 1682–1725.
- petered — to diminish gradually and stop; dwindle to nothing: The hot water always peters out in the middle of my shower.
- petiole — Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
- petitor — a seeker; an applicant or candidate.
- petrale — a variety of flounder, native to the Pacific coast of North America and commonly caught for food
- petrary — a weapon used to propel stones
- petrify — to convert into stone or a stony substance.
- petrine — of or relating to the apostle Peter or the Epistles bearing his name.
- petrog. — petrography
- petrous — denoting the dense part of the temporal bone that surrounds the inner ear
- petscii — (character) /pet'skee/ PET ASCII. The variation (many would say perversion) of the ASCII character set used by the Commodore Business Machines' PET series of personal computers and the later Commodore 64, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128 computers. The PETSCII set used left-arrow and up-arrow (as in old-style ASCII) instead of underscore and caret, placed the unshifted alphabet at positions 65--90, put the shifted alphabet at positions 193--218, and added graphic characters.
- petting — kissing and cuddling
- pettish — easily irritated, sulky
- petunia — flowering plant
- pevsner — Antoine (ɑ̃twan). 1886–1962, French constructivist sculptor and painter, born in Russia; brother of Naum Gabo
- peytrel — the part of a horse's harness or the protective part that shields its chest