First Names Rhyming PERKINSON
English Words Rhyming PERKINSON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PERKŻNSON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERKŻNSON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (erkinson) - English Words That Ends with erkinson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (rkinson) - English Words That Ends with rkinson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (kinson) - English Words That Ends with kinson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (inson) - English Words That Ends with inson:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nson) - English Words That Ends with nson:
sponson | noun (n.) One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat. |
| noun (n.) One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat. |
| noun (n.) One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels. |
sternson | noun (n.) The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (son) - English Words That Ends with son:
advowson | noun (n.) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.] |
antimason | noun (n.) One opposed to Freemasonry. |
arson | noun (n.) The malicious burning of a dwelling house or outhouse of another man, which by the common law is felony; the malicious and voluntary firing of a building or ship. |
bawson | noun (n.) A badger. |
| noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person. |
benison | noun (n.) Blessing; beatitude; benediction. |
bison | noun (n.) The aurochs or European bison. |
| noun (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers. |
bisson | adjective (a.) Purblind; blinding. |
boson | noun (n.) See Boatswain. |
caisson | noun (n.) A chest to hold ammunition. |
| noun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage for conveying ammunition, consisting of two parts, a body and a limber. In light field batteries there is one caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. |
| noun (n.) A chest filled with explosive materials, to be laid in the way of an enemy and exploded on his approach. |
| noun (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level. |
| noun (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins. |
| noun (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it. |
| noun (n.) A sunk panel of ceilings or soffits. |
caparison | noun (n.) An ornamental covering or housing for a horse; the harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. |
| noun (n.) Gay or rich clothing. |
| verb (v. t.) To cover with housings, as a horse; to harness or fit out with decorative trappings, as a horse. |
| verb (v. t.) To aborn with rich dress; to dress. |
cargason | noun (n.) A cargo. |
cavesson | noun (n.) Alt. of Cavezon |
comparison | noun (n.) The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. |
| noun (n.) The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. |
| noun (n.) That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. |
| noun (n.) The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. |
| noun (n.) A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. |
| noun (n.) The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. |
| verb (v. t.) To compare. |
crimson | noun (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. |
| adjective (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. |
| verb (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. |
| (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush. |
damson | noun (n.) A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum. |
diapason | noun (n.) The octave, or interval which includes all the tones of the diatonic scale. |
| noun (n.) Concord, as of notes an octave apart; harmony. |
| noun (n.) The entire compass of tones. |
| noun (n.) A standard of pitch; a tuning fork; as, the French normal diapason. |
| noun (n.) One of certain stops in the organ, so called because they extend through the scale of the instrument. They are of several kinds, as open diapason, stopped diapason, double diapason, and the like. |
disdiapason | noun (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason. |
disherison | noun (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. |
disputison | noun (n.) Dispute; discussion. |
dobson | noun (n.) The aquatic larva of a large neuropterous insect (Corydalus cornutus), used as bait in angling. See Hellgamite. |
dorsimeson | noun (n.) (Anat.) See Meson. |
elison | noun (n.) Division; separation. |
| noun (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together. |
empoison | noun (n.) Poison. |
| verb (v. t.) To poison; to impoison. |
encheson | noun (n.) Alt. of Encheason |
encheason | noun (n.) Occasion, cause, or reason. |
flotson | noun (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. |
foison | noun (n.) Rich harvest; plenty; abundance. |
foyson | noun (n.) See Foison. |
freemason | noun (n.) One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance. |
gambeson | noun (n.) Same as Gambison. |
gambison | noun (n.) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted. |
garrison | noun (n.) A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. |
| noun (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. |
| verb (v. t.) To place troops in, as a fortification, for its defense; to furnish with soldiers; as, to garrison a fort or town. |
| verb (v. t.) To secure or defend by fortresses manned with troops; as, to garrison a conquered territory. |
geason | adjective (a.) Rare; wonderful. |
godson | noun (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather. |
grandson | noun (n.) A son's or daughter's son. |
grison | noun (n.) A South American animal of the family Mustelidae (Galictis vittata). It is about two feet long, exclusive of the tail. Its under parts are black. Also called South American glutton. |
| noun (n.) A South American monkey (Lagothrix infumatus), said to be gluttonous. |
herisson | noun (n.) A beam or bar armed with iron spikes, and turning on a pivot; -- used to block up a passage. |
hyson | noun (n.) A fragrant kind of green tea. |
intercomparison | noun (n.) Mutual comparison of corresponding parts. |
jetson | noun (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy. |
| noun (n.) Jettison. See Jettison, 1. |
jettison | noun (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck. |
| noun (n.) See Jetsam, 1. |
keelson | noun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. |
kelson | noun (n.) See Keelson. |
lesson | noun (n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time. |
| noun (n.) That which is learned or taught by an express effort; instruction derived from precept, experience, observation, or deduction; a precept; a doctrine; as, to take or give a lesson in drawing. |
| noun (n.) A portion of Scripture read in divine service for instruction; as, here endeth the first lesson. |
| noun (n.) A severe lecture; reproof; rebuke; warning. |
| noun (n.) An exercise; a composition serving an educational purpose; a study. |
| verb (v. t.) To teach; to instruct. |
lewisson | noun (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. |
| noun (n.) A kind of shears used in cropping woolen cloth. |
liaison | noun (n.) A union, or bond of union; an intimacy; especially, an illicit intimacy between a man and a woman. |
livraison | noun (n.) A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part. |
malison | noun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration. |
mason | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes. |
| noun (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason. |
| verb (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERKŻNSON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (perkinso) - Words That Begins with perkinso:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (perkins) - Words That Begins with perkins:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (perkin) - Words That Begins with perkin:
perking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perk |
perkin | noun (n.) A kind of weak perry. |
perkinism | noun (n.) A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (perki) - Words That Begins with perki:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (perk) - Words That Begins with perk:
perk | adjective (a.) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain. |
| verb (v. t.) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head. |
| verb (v. i.) To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily. |
| verb (v. i.) To peer; to look inquisitively. |
perky | adjective (a.) Perk; pert; jaunty; trim. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERKŻNSON:
English Words which starts with 'perk' and ends with 'nson':
English Words which starts with 'per' and ends with 'son':
person | noun (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. |
| noun (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. |
| noun (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. |
| noun (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. |
| noun (n.) A parson; the parish priest. |
| noun (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. |
| noun (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. |
| noun (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. |
| verb (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. |
English Words which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'on':
pectination | noun (n.) The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated. |
| noun (n.) The act of combing; the combing of the head. |
| noun (n.) Comblike toothing. |
peculation | noun (n.) The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. |
pediculation | noun (n.) Phthiriasis. |
pendragon | noun (n.) A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. |
penetration | noun (n.) The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult. |
| noun (n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration. |
pennon | noun (n.) A wing; a pinion. |
| noun (n.) A pennant; a flag or streamer. |
pension | noun (n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. |
| noun (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like. |
| noun (n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. |
| noun (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc. |
| verb (v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant. |
pentacron | noun (n.) A solid having five summits or angular points. |
pentagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. |
pentahedron | noun (n.) A solid figure having five sides. |
pentathlon | noun (n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear. |
| noun (n.) In the modern Olympic Games, a composite contest made up of a running broad jump, throwing the javelin, a 200-meter run, throwing the discus, and a 1500-meter run. |
peon | noun (n.) See Poon. |
| noun (n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. |
| noun (n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. |
| noun (n.) See 2d Pawn. |
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. |
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. |
perduellion | noun (n.) Treason. |
perduration | noun (n.) Long continuance. |
peregrination | noun (n.) A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. |
peremption | noun (n.) A quashing; a defeating. |
pererration | noun (n.) A wandering, or rambling, through various places. |
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. |
perflation | noun (n.) The act of perflating. |
perforation | noun (n.) The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through. |
| noun (n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture. |
perfusion | noun (n.) The act of perfusing. |
periastron | noun (n.) That point, in the real or apparent orbit of one star revolving around another, at which the former is nearest to the latter. |
periclitation | noun (n.) Trial; experiment. |
| noun (n.) The state of being in peril. |
perienteron | noun (n.) The primitive perivisceral cavity. |
perihelion | noun (n.) Alt. of Perihelium |
perispomenon | noun (n.) A word which has the circumflex accent on the last syllable. |
peristerion | noun (n.) The herb vervain (Verbena officinalis). |
perlustration | noun (n.) The act of viewing all over. |
permansion | noun (n.) Continuance. |
permeation | noun (n.) The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance. |
permission | noun (n.) The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted. |
permistion | noun (n.) The act of mixing; the state of being mingled; mixture. |
permixtion | noun (n.) See Permission. |
permutation | noun (n.) The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange. |
| noun (n.) The arrangement of any determinate number of things, as units, objects, letters, etc., in all possible orders, one after the other; -- called also alternation. Cf. Combination, n., 4. |
| noun (n.) Any one of such possible arrangements. |
| noun (n.) Barter; exchange. |
pernicion | noun (n.) Destruction; perdition. |
pernoctation | noun (n.) The act or state of passing the whole night; a remaining all night. |
peroration | noun (n.) The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument. |
peroxidation | noun (n.) Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to a peroxide. |
perpension | noun (n.) Careful consideration; pondering. |
perpession | noun (n.) Suffering; endurance. |
perpetration | noun (n.) The act of perpetrating; a doing; -- commonly used of doing something wrong, as a crime. |
| noun (n.) The thing perpetrated; an evil action. |
perpetuation | noun (n.) The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance. |
perpotation | noun (n.) The act of drinking excessively; a drinking bout. |
perquisition | noun (n.) A thorough inquiry of search. |
perscrutation | noun (n.) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. |
persecution | noun (n.) The act or practice of persecuting; especially, the infliction of loss, pain, or death for adherence to a particular creed or mode of worship. |
| noun (n.) The state or condition of being persecuted. |
| noun (n.) A carrying on; prosecution. |
persimmon | noun (n.) An American tree (Diospyros Virginiana) and its fruit, found from New York southward. The fruit is like a plum in appearance, but is very harsh and astringent until it has been exposed to frost, when it becomes palatable and nutritious. |
personation | noun (n.) The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another. |
personification | noun (n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. |
| noun (n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands. |
perspiration | noun (n.) The act or process of perspiring. |
| noun (n.) That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. |
persuasion | noun (n.) The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination. |
| noun (n.) The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. |
| noun (n.) A creed or belief; a sect or party adhering to a certain creed or system of opinions; as, of the same persuasion; all persuasions are agreed. |
| noun (n.) The power or quality of persuading; persuasiveness. |
| noun (n.) That which persuades; a persuasive. |
perterebration | noun (n.) The act of boring through. |
perturbation | noun (n.) The act of perturbing, or the state of being perturbed; esp., agitation of mind. |
| noun (n.) A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. |
pertusion | noun (n.) The act of punching or piercing with a pointed instrument; as, pertusion of a vein. |
| noun (n.) A punched hole; a perforation. |
pervasion | noun (n.) The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing. |
perversion | noun (n.) The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. |
pervestigation | noun (n.) Thorough investigation. |
pervigilation | noun (n.) Careful watching. |
pestilation | noun (n.) The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. |
petition | noun (n.) A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. |
| noun (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document. |
| verb (v. t.) To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petition the court; to petition the governor. |
| verb (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation. |
petrifaction | noun (n.) The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness. |
| noun (n.) The state or condition of being petrified. |
| noun (n.) That which is petrified; popularly, a body incrusted with stony matter; an incrustation. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Hardness; callousness; obduracy. |
petrification | noun (n.) See Petrifaction. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. |
perron | noun (n.) An out-of-door flight of steps, as in a garden, leading to a terrace or to an upper story; -- usually applied to mediaevel or later structures of some architectural pretensions. |