8-letter words starting with peri
- 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.
- perished — to die or be destroyed through violence, privation, etc.: to perish in an earthquake.
- perisher — mischievous person
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