First Names Rhyming PERCIVAL
English Words Rhyming PERCIVAL
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PERCİVAL AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERCİVAL (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ercival) - English Words That Ends with ercival:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (rcival) - English Words That Ends with rcival:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (cival) - English Words That Ends with cival:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ival) - English Words That Ends with ival:
accusatival | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the accusative case. |
adjectival | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective. |
aestival | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases. |
archival | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. |
arrival | noun (n.) The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. |
| noun (n.) The attainment or reaching of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected. |
| noun (n.) The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. |
| noun (n.) An approach. |
carnival | noun (n.) A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, during a few days (three to ten) before Lent, ending with Shrove Tuesday. |
| noun (n.) Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. |
conjunctival | adjective (a.) Joining; connecting. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva. |
convival | adjective (a.) pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. |
corival | noun (n.) A rival; a corrival. |
| verb (v. t.) To rival; to pretend to equal. |
corrival | noun (n.) A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival; also, a companion. |
| adjective (a.) Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. |
| verb (v. i. & t.) To compete with; to rival. |
derival | noun (n.) Derivation. |
diminutival | noun (n.) A diminutive. |
| adjective (a.) Indicating diminution; diminutive. |
estival | noun (n.) Alt. of Estivation |
festival | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful. |
genitival | adjective (a.) Possessing genitive from; pertaining to, or derived from, the genitive case; as, a genitival adverb. |
gingival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the gums. |
imperatival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the imperative mood. |
infinitival | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the infinite mood. |
mournival | noun (n.) See Murnival. |
murnival | noun (n.) In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything. |
nival | adjective (a.) Abounding with snow; snowy. |
nominatival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the nominative case. |
nonarrival | noun (n.) Failure to arrive. |
possessival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination. |
revival | noun (n.) The act of reviving, or the state of being revived. |
| noun (n.) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature. |
| noun (n.) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the drama and literature. |
| noun (n.) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest. |
| noun (n.) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like. |
| noun (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. |
| noun (n.) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion. |
| noun (n.) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, the revival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revoked will, etc. |
| noun (n.) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2. |
rival | noun (n.) A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner. |
| noun (n.) One who is in pursuit of the same object as another; one striving to reach or obtain something which another is attempting to obtain, and which one only can posses; a competitor; as, rivals in love; rivals for a crown. |
| adjective (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. |
| verb (v. t.) To stand in competition with; to strive to gain some object in opposition to; as, to rival one in love. |
| verb (v. t.) To strive to equal or exel; to emulate. |
| verb (v. i.) To be in rivalry. |
salival | adjective (a.) Salivary. |
subconjunctival | adjective (a.) Situated under the conjunctiva. |
substantival | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive. |
survival | noun (n.) A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving. |
| noun (n.) Any habit, usage, or belief, remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often unknown, or imperfectly known. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (val) - English Words That Ends with val:
acerval | adjective (a.) Pertaining to a heap. |
approval | noun (n.) Approbation; sanction. |
arval | noun (n.) A funeral feast. |
cheval | noun (n.) A horse; hence, a support or frame. |
coeval | noun (n.) Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. |
| noun (n.) One of the same age; a contemporary. |
corroval | noun (n.) A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison. |
decennoval | adjective (a.) Alt. of Decennovary |
disapproval | noun (n.) Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment. |
disproval | noun (n.) Act of disproving; disproof. |
eval | adjective (a.) Relating to time or duration. |
interval | noun (n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. |
| noun (n.) Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II. |
| noun (n.) A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium. |
| noun (n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Intervale |
irremoval | noun (n.) Absence of removal. |
larval | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a larva. |
longeval | adjective (a.) Long-loved; longevous. |
mediaeval | adjective (a.) Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture. |
naval | adjective (a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc. |
oboval | adjective (a.) Obovate. |
orval | noun (n.) A kind of sage (Salvia Horminum). |
oval | noun (n.) A body or figure in the shape of an egg, or popularly, of an ellipse. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to eggs; done in the egg, or inception; as, oval conceptions. |
| adjective (a.) Having the figure of an egg; oblong and curvilinear, with one end broader than the other, or with both ends of about the same breadth; in popular usage, elliptical. |
| adjective (a.) Broadly elliptical. |
primeval | adjective (a.) Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. |
removal | noun (n.) The act of removing, or the state of being removed. |
reprieval | noun (n.) Reprieve. |
re proval | noun (n.) Reproof. |
retrieval | noun (n.) The act retrieving. |
rounceval | noun (n.) A giant; anything large; a kind of pea called also marrowfat. |
| adjective (a.) Large; strong; -- from the gigantic bones shown at Roncesvalles, and alleged to be those of old heroes. |
semioval | adjective (a.) Half oval. |
serval | noun (n.) An African wild cat (Felis serval) of moderate size. It has rather long legs and a tail of moderate length. Its color is tawny, with black spots on the body and rings of black on the tail. |
shrieval | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a sheriff. |
suboval | adjective (a.) Somewhat oval; nearly oval. |
upheaval | noun (n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. |
valval | adjective (a.) Alt. of Valvar |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERCİVAL (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (perciva) - Words That Begins with perciva:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (perciv) - Words That Begins with perciv:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (perci) - Words That Begins with perci:
perciform | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Perciformes. |
perciformes | noun (n. pl.) An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families. |
percipience | noun (n.) Alt. of Percipiency |
percipiency | noun (n.) The faculty, act or power of perceiving; perception. |
percipient | noun (n.) One who, or that which, is percipient. |
| adjective (a.) Having the faculty of perception; perceiving; as, a percipient being. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (perc) - Words That Begins with perc:
perca | noun (n.) A genus of fishes, including the fresh-water perch. |
percale | noun (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear. |
percaline | noun (n.) A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color. |
| noun (n.) A fine kind of cotton goods, usually of one color, and with a glossy surface, -- much use for linings. |
percarbide | noun (n.) A compound containing a relatively large amount of carbon. |
percarburet | noun (n.) A percarbide. |
percarbureted | adjective (a.) Combined with a relatively large amount of carbon. |
perceivable | adjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; perceptible. |
perceivance | noun (n.) Power of perceiving. |
perceiving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perceive |
perceiver | noun (n.) One who perceives (in any of the senses of the verb). |
percely | noun (n.) Parsley. |
percentage | noun (n.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. |
percept | noun (n.) That which is perceived. |
perceptibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. |
| noun (n.) Perception. |
perceptible | adjective (a.) Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable. |
perception | noun (n.) The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition. |
| noun (n.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from conception. |
| noun (n.) The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. |
| noun (n.) An idea; a notion. |
perceptive | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception. |
perceptivity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception. |
percesoces | noun (n. pl.) An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes. |
perch | noun (n.) Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flavescens, / Americana), and the European perch (P. fluviatilis). |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of spiny-finned fishes belonging to the Percidae, Serranidae, and related families, and resembling, more or less, the true perches. |
| noun (n.) A pole; a long staff; a rod; esp., a pole or other support for fowls to roost on or to rest on; a roost; figuratively, any elevated resting place or seat. |
| noun (n.) A measure of length containing five and a half yards; a rod, or pole. |
| noun (n.) In land or square measure: A square rod; the 160th part of an acre. |
| noun (n.) In solid measure: A mass 16/ feet long, 1 foot in height, and 1/ feet in breadth, or 24/ cubic feet (in local use, from 22 to 25 cubic feet); -- used in measuring stonework. |
| noun (n.) A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach. |
| verb (v. i.) To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. |
| verb (v. t.) To place or to set on, or as on, a perch. |
| verb (v. t.) To occupy as a perch. |
perching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perch |
perchant | noun (n.) A bird tied by the foot, to serve as decoy to other birds by its fluttering. |
percheron | noun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. |
perchlorate | noun (n.) A salt of perchloric acid. |
perchloric | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HClO4), of chlorine; -- called also hyperchloric. |
perchloride | noun (n.) A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than any other chloride of the same substance or series. |
perchromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a certain one of the highly oxidized compounds of chromium, which has a deep blue color, and is produced by the action of hydrogen peroxide. |
perclose | noun (n.) Same as Parclose. |
| noun (n.) Conclusion; end. |
percoid | noun (n.) Any fish of the genus Perca, or allied genera of the family Percidae. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the perches, or family Percidae. |
percoidea | noun (n. pl.) Same as Perciformes. |
percolating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percolate |
percolation | noun (n.) The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it. |
percolator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, filters. |
| noun (n.) A kind of coffee pot in which the heated water is caused to filter through the coffee and thus extract its essence. |
| noun (n.) An apparatus for producing an extract from a drug by percolation. |
percomorphi | noun (n. pl.) A division of fishes including the perches and related kinds. |
perculaced | adjective (a.) Latticed. See Lattice, n., 2. |
percurrent | adjective (a.) Running through the entire length. |
percursory | adjective (a.) Running over slightly or in haste; cursory. |
percussing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Percuss |
percussion | noun (n.) The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. |
| noun (n.) Hence: The effect of violent collision; vibratory shock; impression of sound on the ear. |
| noun (n.) The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body; if some interventing substance, as a pleximeter, is, used, it is called mediate. |
percussive | adjective (a.) Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force. |
percutient | noun (n.) That which strikes, or has power to strike. |
| adjective (a.) Striking; having the power of striking. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (per) - Words That Begins with per:
peracute | adjective (a.) Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. |
peradventure | noun (n.) Chance; hap; hence, doubt; question; as, proved beyond peradventure. |
| adverb (adv. & conj.) By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. |
peraeopod | noun (n.) One of the thoracic legs of a crustacean. See Illust. of Crustacea. |
peragration | noun (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. |
perambulating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perambulate |
perambulation | noun (n.) The act of perambulating; traversing. |
| noun (n.) An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc. |
| noun (n.) A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. |
perambulator | noun (n.) One who perambulates. |
| noun (n.) A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances. It consists of a wheel arranged to roll along over the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer. |
| noun (n.) A low carriage for a child, propelled by pushing. |
perameles | noun (n.) Any marsupial of the genus Perameles, which includes numerous species found in Australia. They somewhat resemble rabbits in size and form. See Illust. under Bandicoot. |
perbend | noun (n.) See Perpender. |
perbreak | noun (n.) See Parbreak. |
perbromate | noun (n.) A salt of perbromic acid. |
perbromic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the highest oxygen acid, HBrO4, of bromine. |
perbromide | noun (n.) A bromide having a higher proportion of bromine than any other bromide of the same substance or series. |
perdicine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges. |
perdifoil | noun (n.) A deciduous plant; -- opposed to evergreen. |
perdition | noun (n.) Entire loss; utter destruction; ruin; esp., the utter loss of the soul, or of final happiness in a future state; future misery or eternal death. |
| noun (n.) Loss of diminution. |
perditionable | adjective (a.) Capable of being ruined; worthy of perdition. |
perdix | noun (n.) A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera. |
perdu | adjective (a.) One placed on watch, or in ambush. |
| adjective (a.) A soldier sent on a forlorn hope. |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Perdue |
perdue | adjective (a.) Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. |
| adjective (a.) Accustomed to, or employed in, desperate enterprises; hence, reckless; hopeless. |
perduellion | noun (n.) Treason. |
perdulous | adjective (a.) Lost; thrown away. |
perdurability | noun (n.) Durability; lastingness. |
perdurable | noun (n.) Very durable; lasting; continuing long. |
perdurance | noun (n.) Alt. of Perduration |
perduration | noun (n.) Long continuance. |
pere | noun (n.) A peer. |
| noun (n.) Father; -- often used after French proper names to distinguish a father from his son; as, Dumas pere. |
peregal | adjective (a.) Fully equal. |
peregrinate | adjective (a.) Having traveled; foreign. |
| verb (v. i.) To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries. |
peregrination | noun (n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. |
peregrinator | noun (n.) One who peregrinates; one who travels about. |
peregrine | noun (n.) The peregrine falcon. |
| adjective (a.) Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. |
peregrinity | noun (n.) Foreignness; strangeness. |
| noun (n.) Travel; wandering. |
peremption | noun (n.) A quashing; a defeating. |
peremptoriness | noun (n.) The quality of being peremptory; positiveness. |
peremptory | adjective (a.) Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. |
| adjective (a.) Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. |
| adjective (a.) Firmly determined; unawed. |
perennial | noun (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not. |
| adjective (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains. |
| adjective (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing. |
| adjective (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant. |
perennibranchiata | noun (n. pl.) Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus. |
perennibranchiate | adjective (a.) Having branchae, or gills, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. |
| adjective (a.) Belonging to the Perennibranchiata. |
perennity | noun (n.) The quality of being perennial. |
pererration | noun (n.) A wandering, or rambling, through various places. |
perfect | noun (n.) The perfect tense, or a form in that tense. |
| adjective (a.) Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. |
| adjective (a.) Well informed; certain; sure. |
| adjective (a.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. |
| adjective (a.) To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind. |
perfecting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perfect |
perfecter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, makes perfect. |
perfectibilian | noun (n.) A perfectionist. |
perfectibilist | noun (n.) A perfectionist. See also Illuminati, 2. |
perfectibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perfectible. |
perfectible | adjective (a.) Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect. |
perfection | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral excellence; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence; maturity; as, perfection in an art, in a science, or in a system; perfection in form or degree; fruits in perfection. |
| noun (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence. |
| verb (v. t.) To perfect. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERCİVAL:
English Words which starts with 'per' and ends with 'val':
English Words which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'al':
peal | noun (n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. |
| noun (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc. |
| noun (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells. |
| verb (v. i.) To appeal. |
| verb (v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds. |
| verb (v. i.) To resound; to echo. |
| verb (v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad. |
| verb (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds. |
| verb (v. t.) To pour out. |
pectinal | noun (n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a comb; resembling a comb. |
pectineal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pecten. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the pubic bone. |
pectoral | noun (n.) A covering or protecting for the breast. |
| noun (n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person. |
| noun (n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast. |
| noun (n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy. |
| adjective (a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper. |
pectoriloquial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pectoriloquy. |
pecunial | adjective (a.) Pecuniary. |
pedagogical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedagogue; suited to, or characteristic of, a pedagogue. |
pedal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals. |
| adjective (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle. |
| adjective (a.) A pedal curve or surface. |
pedantical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. |
pedestal | noun (n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column. |
| noun (n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box. |
| noun (n.) A pillow block; a low housing. |
| noun (n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier. |
pedestrial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the feet; employing the foot or feet. |
pedial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal. |
pedimental | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a pediment. |
pedometrical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or measured by, a pedometer. |
pedregal | noun (n.) A lava field. |
penal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence |
| adjective (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. |
| adjective (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense. |
| adjective (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. |
penitential | noun (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. |
pennyroyal | noun (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. |
penological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to penology. |
pentagonal | adjective (a.) Having five corners or angles. |
pentagraphical | adjective (a.) Pantographic. See Pantograph. |
pentahedral | adjective (a.) Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. |
pentahedrical | adjective (a.) Pentahedral. |
pentateuchal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch. |
pentecostal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide. |
perfectional | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to perfection; characterized by perfection. |
periastral | adjective (a.) Among or around the stars. |
peribranchial | adjective (a.) Surrounding the branchiae; as, a peribranchial cavity. |
| adjective (a.) Around the bronchi or bronchial tubes; as, the peribronchial lymphatics. |
pericardial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. |
pericarpial | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pericarpic |
perichaetial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the perichaeth. |
perichondrial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the perichondrium; situated around cartilage. |
perichordal | adjective (a.) Around the notochord; as, a perichordal column. See Epichordal. |
pericranial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the pericranium. |
perilymphangial | adjective (a.) Around, or at the side of, a lymphatic vessel. |
perimetrical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the perimeter, or to perimetry; as, a perimetric chart of the eye. |
perimysial | adjective (a.) Surrounding a muscle or muscles. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the perimysium. |
perineal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the perineum. |
perineurial | adjective (a.) Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium. |
periodical | noun (n.) A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods. |
| adjective (a.) Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun. |
| adjective (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. |
periodontal | adjective (a.) Surrounding the teeth. |
periosteal | adjective (a.) Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum. |
peripatetical | adjective (a.) Peripatetic. |
peripheral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric. |
| adjective (a.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system. |
peripherical | adjective (a.) See Peripheral. |
periphrastical | adjective (a.) Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. |
peripteral | adjective (a.) Having columns on all sides; -- said of an edifice. See Apteral. |
perispherical | adjective (a.) Exactly spherical; globular. |
perissological | adjective (a.) Redundant or excessive in words. |
peristomial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a peristome. |
peritoneal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the peritoneum. |
peritracheal | adjective (a.) Surrounding the tracheae. |
peritropal | adjective (a.) Rotatory; circuitous. |
| adjective (a.) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached. |
perivertebral | adjective (a.) Surrounding the vertebrae. |
perivisceral | adjective (a.) Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity. |
peroneal | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the fibula; in the region of the fibula. |
perpetual | adjective (a.) Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. |
perradial | adjective (a.) Situated around the radii, or radial tubes, of a radiate. |
personal | noun (n.) A movable; a chattel. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals; peculiar or proper to private concerns; not public or general; as, personal comfort; personal desire. |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal; as, personal charms. |
| adjective (a.) Done in person; without the intervention of another. |
| adjective (a.) Relating to an individual, his character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and offensive manner; as, personal reflections or remarks. |
| adjective (a.) Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. |
perturbational | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. |
perusal | noun (n.) The act of carefully viewing or examining. |
| noun (n.) The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. |
pervial | adjective (a.) Pervious. |
pessimistical | adjective (a.) Pessimistic. |
pestilential | adjective (a.) Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. |
| adjective (a.) Hence: Mischievous; noxious; pernicious; morally destructive. |
petal | noun (n.) One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower. |
| noun (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini. |
petechial | adjective (a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiae; spotted. |
petrographical | adjective (a.) Pertaining to petrography. |
petrological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to petrology. |
petrosal | noun (n.) A petrosal bone. |
| noun (n.) The auditory capsule. |
| adjective (a.) Hard; stony; petrous; as, the petrosal bone; petrosal part of the temporal bone. |
| adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the petrous, or petrosal, bone, or the corresponding part of the temporal bone. |