First Names Rhyming PERSEUS
English Words Rhyming PERSEUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PERSEUS AS A WHOLE:
| perseus | noun (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa. |
| | noun (n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERSEUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (erseus) - English Words That Ends with erseus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rseus) - English Words That Ends with rseus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (seus) - English Words That Ends with seus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - English Words That Ends with eus:
| aculeus | noun (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. |
| | noun (n.) A sting. |
| alveus | noun (n.) The channel of a river. |
| anconeus | noun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. |
| archeus | noun (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. |
| caduceus | noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. |
| cepheus | noun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia. |
| cereus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili. |
| choreus | noun (n.) Alt. of Choree |
| clypeus | noun (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect. |
| coccosteus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles. |
| coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
| corypheus | noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
| glutaeus | noun (n.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals. |
| gluteus | noun (n.) Same as Glut/us. |
| ileus | noun (n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion. |
| malleus | noun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. |
| | noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell. |
| morpheus | noun (n.) The god of dreams. |
| nucleus | noun (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) The body or the head of a comet. |
| | noun (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue. |
| | noun (n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats. |
| | noun (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division. |
| | noun (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell. |
| | noun (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum. |
| | noun (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks. |
| orpheus | noun (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre. |
| paranucleus | noun (n.) Some as Nucleolus. |
| pileus | noun (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt. |
| | noun (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom. |
| | noun (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape. |
| pluteus | noun (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods. |
| prometheus | noun (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver. |
| pronucleus | noun (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. |
| proteus | noun (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak. |
| | noun (n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba. |
| reflueus | adjective (a.) Refluent. |
| scarabaeus | noun (n.) Same as Scarab. |
| | noun (n.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside. |
| trinucleus | noun (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head. |
| uraeus | noun (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power. |
| zeus | noun (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERSEUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (perseu) - Words That Begins with perseu:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (perse) - Words That Begins with perse:
| persecot | noun (n.) See Persicot. |
| persecuting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persecute |
| 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. |
| persecutor | noun (n.) One who persecutes, or harasses. |
| persecutrix | noun (n.) A woman who persecutes. |
| perseid | noun (n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862. |
| | noun (n.) One of a group of shooting stars appearing annually about the 10th of August. They are probably fragments of Swift's comet 1862 (III). |
| perseverance | noun (n.) The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. |
| | noun (n.) Discrimination. |
| | noun (n.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. |
| perseverant | adjective (a.) Persevering. |
| persevering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persevere |
| | adjective (a.) Characterized by perseverance; persistent. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pers) - Words That Begins with pers:
| pers | noun (n.) A cloth of sky-blue color. |
| | adjective (a.) Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. |
| persalt | noun (n.) A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formed respectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. |
| persant | adjective (a.) Piercing. |
| perscrutation | noun (n.) A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. |
| persian | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Persia. |
| | noun (n.) The language spoken in Persia. |
| | noun (n.) A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings. |
| | noun (n.) See Persian columns, under Persian, a. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language. |
| persic | noun (n.) The Persian language. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or relating to Persia. |
| persicaria | noun (n.) See Lady's thumb. |
| persicot | noun (n.) A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc., with refined spirit. |
| persiflage | noun (n.) Frivolous or bantering talk; a frivolous manner of treating any subject, whether serious or otherwise; light raillery. |
| persifleur | noun (n.) One who indulges in persiflage; a banterer; a quiz. |
| 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. |
| persis | noun (n.) A kind of coloring matter obtained from lichens. |
| persism | noun (n.) A Persian idiom. |
| | noun (n.) Ancient Persian religion, esp. as represented by the Magi. |
| persisting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Persist |
| | adjective (a.) Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. |
| persistence | noun (n.) Alt. of Persistency |
| persistency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy. |
| | noun (n.) The continuance of an effect after the cause which first gave rise to it is removed |
| | noun (n.) The persistence of motion. |
| | noun (n.) Visual persistence, or persistence of the visual impression; auditory persistence, etc. |
| persistent | adjective (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose. |
| | adjective (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous. |
| persistive | adjective (a.) See Persistent. |
| 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. |
| persona | noun (n.) Same as Person, n., 8. |
| personable | adjective (a.) Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. |
| | adjective (a.) Enabled to maintain pleas in court. |
| | adjective (a.) Having capacity to take anything granted. |
| personage | noun (n.) Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person. |
| | noun (n.) Character assumed or represented. |
| | noun (n.) A notable or distinguished person; a conspicious or peculiar character; as, an illustrious personage; a comely personage of stature tall. |
| 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. |
| personalism | noun (n.) The quality or state of being personal; personality. |
| personality | noun (n.) That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. |
| | noun (n.) Something said or written which refers to the person, conduct, etc., of some individual, especially something of a disparaging or offensive nature; personal remarks; as, indulgence in personalities. |
| | noun (n.) That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. |
| personalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personalize |
| personalty | noun (n.) The state of being a person; personality. |
| | noun (n.) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property. |
| personating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personate |
| personate | adjective (a.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon. |
| | verb (v. t.) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. |
| | verb (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. |
| | verb (v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. |
| | verb (v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe. |
| | verb (v. i.) To play or assume a character. |
| personation | noun (n.) The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another. |
| personator | noun (n.) One who personates. |
| personeity | noun (n.) Personality. |
| 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. |
| personifier | noun (n.) One who personifies. |
| personifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Personify |
| personnel | noun (n.) The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from materiel. |
| perspective | noun (n.) Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical. |
| | noun (n.) Pertaining to the art, or in accordance with the laws, of perspective. |
| | adjective (a.) A glass through which objects are viewed. |
| | adjective (a.) That which is seen through an opening; a view; a vista. |
| | adjective (a.) The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aerial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects. |
| | adjective (a.) The art and the science of so delineating objects that they shall seem to grow smaller as they recede from the eye; -- called also linear perspective. |
| | adjective (a.) A drawing in linear perspective. |
| perspectograph | noun (n.) An instrument for obtaining, and transferring to a picture, the points and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point. |
| perspectography | noun (n.) The science or art of delineating objects according to the laws of perspective; the theory of perspective. |
| perspicable | adjective (a.) Discernible. |
| perspicacious | adjective (a.) Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight. |
| | adjective (a.) Fig.: Of acute discernment; keen. |
| perspicacity | noun (n.) The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. |
| perspicacy | noun (n.) Perspicacity. |
| perspicience | noun (n.) The act of looking sharply. |
| perspicil | noun (n.) An optical glass; a telescope. |
| perspicuity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. |
| | noun (n.) The quality of being perspicuous to the understanding; clearness of expression or thought. |
| | noun (n.) Sagacity; perspicacity. |
| perspicuous | adjective (a.) Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque. |
| | adjective (a.) Clear to the understanding; capable of being clearly understood; clear in thought or in expression; not obscure or ambiguous; as, a perspicuous writer; perspicuous statements. |
| perspirability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being perspirable. |
| perspirable | adjective (a.) Capable of being perspired. |
| | adjective (a.) Emitting perspiration; perspiring. |
| perspiration | noun (n.) The act or process of perspiring. |
| | noun (n.) That which is excreted through the skin; sweat. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERSEUS:
English Words which starts with 'per' and ends with 'eus':
English Words which starts with 'pe' and ends with 'us':
| pearlaceous | adjective (a.) Resembling pearl or mother-of-pearl; pearly in quality or appearance. |
| pectoriloquous | adjective (a.) Pectoriloquial. |
| pectous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, pectose. |
| pectus | noun (n.) The breast of a bird. |
| pecunious | adjective (a.) Abounding in money; wealthy; rich. |
| pedaneous | adjective (a.) Going on foot; pedestrian. |
| pedestrious | adjective (a.) Going on foot; not winged. |
| pedetentous | adjective (a.) Proceeding step by step; advancing cautiously. |
| pediculous | adjective (a.) Pedicular. |
| pediculus | noun (n.) A genus of wingless parasitic Hemiptera, including the common lice of man. See Louse. |
| pedigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing or having feet or legs. |
| pedimanous | adjective (a.) Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys. |
| pedipalpous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps. |
| pedipalpus | noun (n.) One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw. |
| pegasus | noun (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration. |
| | noun (n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China. |
| pemphigus | noun (n.) A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. |
| pendulous | adjective (a.) Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. |
| | adjective (a.) Wavering; unstable; doubtful. |
| | adjective (a.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary. |
| pennaceous | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to a normal feather. |
| pennigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing feathers or quills. |
| pentacoccous | adjective (a.) Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits. |
| pentacrinus | noun (n.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere. |
| pentadelphous | adjective (a.) Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden. |
| pentagonous | adjective (a.) Pentagonal. |
| pentagynous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles. |
| pentahedrous | adjective (a.) Pentahedral. |
| pentamerous | adjective (a.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Pentamera. |
| pentamerus | noun (n.) A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. |
| pentandrous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens. |
| pentapetalous | adjective (a.) Having five petals, or flower leaves. |
| pentaphyllous | adjective (a.) Having five leaves or leaflets. |
| pentaspermous | adjective (a.) Containing five seeds. |
| pentastichous | adjective (a.) Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree. |
| penurious | adjective (a.) Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. |
| | adjective (a.) Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. |
| | adjective (a.) Destitute of money; suffering extreme want. |
| peplus | noun (n.) An upper garment worn by Grecian and Roman women. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of kerchief formerly worn by Englishwomen. |
| peptogenous | adjective (a.) Capable of yielding, or being converted into, peptone. |
| perdulous | adjective (a.) Lost; thrown away. |
| perfidious | adjective (a.) Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. |
| | adjective (a.) Involving, or characterized by, perfidy. |
| pergamenous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pergamentaceous |
| pergamentaceous | adjective (a.) Like parchment. |
| pericarditus | noun (n.) Inflammation of the pericardium. |
| perichaetous | adjective (a.) Surrounded by setae; -- said of certain earthworms (genus Perichaetus). |
| periculous | adjective (a.) Dangerous; full of peril. |
| perigynous | adjective (a.) Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach. |
| perilous | adjective (a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. |
| | adjective (a.) Daring; reckless; dangerous. |
| peripatus | noun (n.) A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda. |
| peripetalous | adjective (a.) Surrounding, or situated about, the petals. |
| peripterous | adjective (a.) Peripteral. |
| | adjective (a.) Feathered all around. |
| peristeromorphous | adjective (a.) Like or pertaining to the pigeons or Columbae. |
| peristeropodous | adjective (a.) Having pigeonlike feet; -- said of those gallinaceous birds that rest on all four toes, as the curassows and megapods. |
| peritomous | adjective (a.) Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis. |
| peritropous | adjective (a.) Peritropal. |
| perjurious | adjective (a.) Alt. of Perjurous |
| perjurous | adjective (a.) Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. |
| perlaceous | adjective (a.) Pearly; resembling pearl. |
| perlous | adjective (a.) Perilous. |
| pernicious | adjective (a.) Quick; swift (to burn). |
| | adjective (a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked. |
| perstreperous | adjective (a.) Noisy; obstreperous. |
| pertinacious | adjective (a.) Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar. |
| | adjective (a.) Resolute; persevering; constant; steady. |
| pervicacious | adjective (a.) Obstinate; willful; refractory. |
| pervious | adjective (a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading. |
| | adjective (a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. |
| pessulus | noun (n.) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds. |
| pesterous | adjective (a.) Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. |
| pestiferous | adjective (a.) Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. |
| | adjective (a.) Noxious to peace, to morals, or to society; vicious; hurtful; destructive; as, a pestiferous demagogue. |
| pestilentious | adjective (a.) Pestilential. |
| petaliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing petals. |
| petaloideous | adjective (a.) Having the whole or part of the perianth petaline. |
| petalous | adjective (a.) Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous. |
| petasus | noun (n.) The winged cap of Mercury; also, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned hat worn by Greeks and Romans. |
| petrosilicious | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex. |
| petrous | adjective (a.) Like stone; hard; stony; rocky; as, the petrous part of the temporal bone. |
| | adjective (a.) Same as Petrosal. |
| petulcous | adjective (a.) Wanton; frisky; lustful. |
| pellagrous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity. |
| pelorus | noun (n.) An instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass. |
