First Names Rhyming PENDRAGON
English Words Rhyming PENDRAGON
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PENDRAGON AS A WHOLE:
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PENDRAGON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (endragon) - English Words That Ends with endragon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ndragon) - English Words That Ends with ndragon:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (dragon) - English Words That Ends with dragon:
| dragon | noun (n.) A fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious. |
| | noun (n.) A fierce, violent person, esp. a woman. |
| | noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco. |
| | noun (n.) A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent. |
| | noun (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. |
| | noun (n.) A small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of carrier pigeon. |
| | noun (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms. |
| flapdragon | noun (n.) A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing. |
| | noun (n.) The thing thus caught and eaten. |
| | verb (v. t.) To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour. |
| rouge dragon | noun (n.) One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms. |
| snapdragon | noun (n.) Any plant of the scrrophulariaceous genus Antirrhinum, especially the cultivated A. majus, whose showy flowers are fancifully likened to the face of a dragon. |
| | noun (n.) A West Indian herb (Ruellia tuberosa) with curiously shaped blue flowers. |
| | noun (n.) A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ragon) - English Words That Ends with ragon:
| paragon | noun (n.) A companion; a match; an equal. |
| | noun (n.) Emulation; rivalry; competition. |
| | noun (n.) A model or pattern; a pattern of excellence or perfection; as, a paragon of beauty or eloquence. |
| | noun (n.) A size of type between great primer and double pica. See the Note under Type. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compare; to parallel; to put in rivalry or emulation with. |
| | verb (v. t.) To compare with; to equal; to rival. |
| | verb (v. t.) To serve as a model for; to surpass. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison. |
| tarragon | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Artemisa (A. dracunculus), much used in France for flavoring vinegar. |
| tetragon | noun (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (agon) - English Words That Ends with agon:
| agon | noun (n.) A contest for a prize at the public games. |
| chiliagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of a thousand angles and sides. |
| dagon | noun (n.) A slip or piece. |
| | () The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. |
| decagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having ten sides and ten angles; any figure having ten angles. A regular decagon is one that has all its sides and angles equal. |
| dodecagon | noun (n.) A figure or polygon bounded by twelve sides and containing twelve angles. |
| endecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and angles. |
| enneagon | noun (n.) A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon. |
| flagon | noun (n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. |
| harpagon | noun (n.) A grappling iron. |
| hendecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eleven sides and eleven angles. |
| heptagon | noun (n.) A plane figure consisting of seven sides and having seven angles. |
| hexagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of six angles. |
| isagon | adjective (a.) A figure or polygon whose angles are equal. |
| martagon | noun (n.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia. |
| nonagon | noun (n.) A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles. |
| octagon | noun (n.) A plane figure of eight sides and eight angles. |
| | noun (n.) Any structure (as a fortification) or place with eight sides or angles. |
| quindecagon | noun (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides. |
| | noun (n.) A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides. |
| pentagon | noun (n.) A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. |
| protagon | noun (n.) A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies. |
| undecagon | noun (n.) A figure having eleven angles and eleven sides. |
| wagon | noun (n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise. |
| | noun (n.) A freight car on a railway. |
| | noun (n.) A chariot |
| | noun (n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city. |
| | verb (v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (gon) - English Words That Ends with gon:
| amblygon | noun (n.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. |
| analogon | noun (n.) Analogue. |
| argon | noun (n.) A substance regarded as an element, contained in the atmosphere and remarkable for its chemical inertness. |
| | noun (n.) A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, A; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1¡ C. and to a solid melting at -189.6¡ C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0¡ C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g. |
| andropogon | noun (n.) A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schoenanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery. |
| biggon | noun (n.) Alt. of Biggonnet |
| cogon | noun (n.) A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching. |
| demogorgon | noun (n.) A mysterious, terrible, and evil divinity, regarded by some as the author of creation, by others as a great magician who was supposed to command the spirits of the lower world. See Gorgon. |
| ergon | noun (n.) Work, measured in terms of the quantity of heat to which it is equivalent. |
| | noun (n.) = Erg. |
| fourgon | noun (n.) An ammunition wagon. |
| | noun (n.) A French baggage wagon. |
| gorgon | noun (n.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa. |
| | noun (n.) Anything very ugly or horrid. |
| | noun (n.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu. |
| | adjective (a.) Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. |
| homologon | noun (n.) See Homologue. |
| jargon | noun (n.) Confused, unintelligible language; gibberish; hence, an artificial idiom or dialect; cant language; slang. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of zircon. See Zircon. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds; to talk unintelligibly, or in a harsh and noisy manner. |
| orthogon | noun (n.) A rectangular figure. |
| oxygon | noun (n.) A triangle having three acute angles. |
| parergon | noun (n.) See Parergy. |
| polygon | noun (n.) A plane figure having many angles, and consequently many sides; esp., one whose perimeter consists of more than four sides; any figure having many angles. |
| trigon | noun (n.) A figure having three angles; a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) A division consisting of three signs. |
| | noun (n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of triangular lyre or harp. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of game at ball played by three persons standing at the angular points of a triangle. |
| | noun (n.) The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid (/). |
| trogon | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of beautiful tropical birds belonging to the family Trogonidae. They are noted for the brilliant colors and the resplendent luster of their plumage. |
| trygon | noun (n.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PENDRAGON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (pendrago) - Words That Begins with pendrago:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (pendrag) - Words That Begins with pendrag:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (pendra) - Words That Begins with pendra:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (pendr) - Words That Begins with pendr:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (pend) - Words That Begins with pend:
| pend | noun (n.) Oil cake; penock. |
| | verb (v. i.) To hang; to depend. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be undecided, or in process of adjustment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pen; to confine. |
| pending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pend |
| | adjective (a.) Not yet decided; in continuance; in suspense; as, a pending suit. |
| | prep (prep.) During; as, pending the trail. |
| pendant | noun (n.) Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book. |
| | noun (n.) A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. |
| | noun (n.) One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase. |
| | noun (n.) A pendulum. |
| | noun (n.) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended. |
| pendence | noun (n.) Slope; inclination. |
| pendency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being pendent or suspended. |
| | noun (n.) The quality or state of being undecided, or in continuance; suspense; as, the pendency of a suit. |
| pendent | adjective (a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf. |
| | adjective (a.) Jutting over; projecting; overhanging. |
| pendentive | noun (n.) The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel. |
| pendice | noun (n.) A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse. |
| pendicle | noun (n.) An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant. |
| pendicler | noun (n.) An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft. |
| pendular | adjective (a.) Pendulous. |
| pendule | noun (n.) A pendulum. |
| penduline | noun (n.) A European titmouse (Parus, / Aegithalus, pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers. |
| pendulosity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being pendulous. |
| 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. |
| pendulousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity. |
| pendulum | noun (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pen) - Words That Begins with pen:
| pen | noun (n.) A feather. |
| | noun (n.) A wing. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed, or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. |
| | noun (n.) The internal shell of a squid. |
| | noun (n.) A female swan. |
| | noun (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose. |
| | noun (n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. |
| | verb (v. t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet. |
| penning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen |
| | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pen |
| 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. |
| penality | noun (n.) The quality or state of being penal; lability to punishment. |
| penalty | noun (n.) Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass. |
| | noun (n.) The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine. |
| | noun (n.) A handicap. |
| penance | noun (n.) Repentance. |
| | noun (n.) Pain; sorrow; suffering. |
| | noun (n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| | verb (v. t.) To impose penance; to punish. |
| penanceless | adjective (a.) Free from penance. |
| penannular | adjective (a.) Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring. |
| penary | adjective (a.) Penal. |
| penates | noun (n. pl.) The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar. |
| penaunt | noun (n.) A penitent. |
| pence | noun (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny. |
| | (pl. ) of Penny |
| pencel | noun (n.) A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel. |
| penchant | noun (n.) Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art. |
| | noun (n.) A game like bezique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together. |
| penchute | noun (n.) See Penstock. |
| pencil | noun (n.) A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors. |
| | noun (n.) A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc. |
| | noun (n.) An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point. |
| | noun (n.) A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point. |
| | noun (n.) A small medicated bougie. |
| | verb (v. t.) To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw. |
| penciling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pencil |
| | noun (n.) The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. |
| | noun (n.) Lines of white or black paint drawn along a mortar joint in a brick wall. |
| penciled | adjective (a.) Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil. |
| | adjective (a.) Radiated; having pencils of rays. |
| | adjective (a.) Marked with parallel or radiating lines. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Pencil |
| pencillate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Pencillated |
| pencillated | adjective (a.) Shaped like a pencil; penicillate. |
| pencraft | noun (n.) Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography. |
| | noun (n.) The art of composing or writing; authorship. |
| penelope | noun (n.) A genus of curassows, including the guans. |
| penetrability | noun (n.) The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. |
| penetrable | adjective (a.) Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. |
| penetrail | noun (n.) Penetralia. |
| penetralia | noun (n. pl.) The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace. |
| | noun (n. pl.) Hidden things or secrets; privacy; sanctuary; as, the sacred penetralia of the home. |
| penetrance | noun (n.) Alt. of Penetrancy |
| penetrancy | noun (n.) The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power of quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia. |
| penetrant | adjective (a.) Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold. |
| penetrating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Penetrate |
| | adjective (a.) Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor. |
| | adjective (a.) Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind. |
| 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. |
| penetrative | adjective (a.) Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame. |
| | adjective (a.) Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom. |
| penetrativeness | noun (n.) The quality of being penetrative. |
| penfish | noun (n.) A squid. |
| penfold | noun (n.) See Pinfold. |
| pengolin | noun (n.) The pangolin. |
| penguin | noun (n.) Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass. |
| | noun (n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. |
| penguinery | noun (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins. |
| penholder | noun (n.) A handle for a pen. |
| penhouse | noun (n.) A penthouse. |
| penible | adjective (a.) Painstaking; assidous. |
| penicil | noun (n.) A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers. |
| penicillate | adjective (a.) Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses. |
| penicilliform | adjective (a.) Penicillate. |
| peninsula | noun (n.) A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus. |
| peninsular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war. |
| peninsulating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Peninsulate |
| penis | noun (n.) The male member, or organ of generation. |
| penitence | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. |
| penitencer | noun (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PENDRAGON:
English Words which starts with 'pend' and ends with 'agon':
English Words which starts with 'pen' and ends with 'gon':
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| peragration | noun (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| percheron | noun (n.) One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
