First Names Rhyming PERSIUS
English Words Rhyming PERSIUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PERSİUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERSİUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ersius) - English Words That Ends with ersius:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rsius) - English Words That Ends with rsius:
| tarsius | noun (n.) A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (sius) - English Words That Ends with sius:
| cassius | noun (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius. |
| celsius | noun (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ius) - English Words That Ends with ius:
| aesculapius | noun (n.) The god of medicine. Hence, a physician. |
| antibacchius | noun (n.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#). |
| apocrisiarius | noun (n.) A delegate or deputy; especially, the pope's nuncio or legate at Constantinople. |
| aquarius | noun (n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East. |
| | noun (n.) A constellation south of Pegasus. |
| bacchius | noun (n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short. |
| bathybius | noun (n.) A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin. |
| chelidonius | noun (n.) A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm. |
| congius | noun (n.) A liquid measure containing about three quarts. |
| | noun (n.) A gallon, or four quarts. |
| denarius | noun (n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as. |
| dochmius | noun (n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -). |
| ericius | noun (n.) The Vulgate rendering of the Hebrew word qip/d, which in the "Authorized Version" is translated bittern, and in the Revised Version, porcupine. |
| esculapius | noun (n.) Same as Aesculapius. |
| gastrocnemius | noun (n.) The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg. |
| genius | noun (n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee. |
| | noun (n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting. |
| | noun (n.) Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language. |
| | noun (n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius. |
| | noun (n.) A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius. |
| gladius | noun (n.) The internal shell, or pen, of cephalopods like the squids. |
| gordius | noun (n.) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs. |
| hyporadius | noun (n.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather. |
| internuncius | noun (n.) Internuncio. |
| medius | noun (n.) The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it. |
| metanauplius | noun (n.) A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages. |
| modius | noun (n.) A dry measure, containing about a peck. |
| nauplius | noun (n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body. |
| nonius | noun (n.) A vernier. |
| nuncius | noun (n.) A messenger. |
| | noun (n.) The information communicated. |
| polygordius | noun (n.) A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva. |
| radius | noun (n.) A right line drawn or extending from the center of a circle to the periphery; the semidiameter of a circle or sphere. |
| | noun (n.) The preaxial bone of the forearm, or brachium, corresponding to the tibia of the hind limb. See Illust. of Artiodactyla. |
| | noun (n.) A ray, or outer floret, of the capitulum of such plants as the sunflower and the daisy. See Ray, 2. |
| | noun (n.) The barbs of a perfect feather. |
| | noun (n.) Radiating organs, or color-markings, of the radiates. |
| | noun (n.) The movable limb of a sextant or other angular instrument. |
| regius | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a king; royal. |
| retiarius | noun (n.) A gladiator armed with a net for entangling his adversary and a trident for despatching him. |
| sagittarius | noun (n.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer. |
| | noun (n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow. |
| sardius | noun (n.) A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set in Aaron's breastplate. |
| sartorius | noun (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting. |
| serpentarius | noun (n.) A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus. |
| sirius | noun (n.) The Dog Star. See Dog Star. |
| splenius | noun (n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck. |
| xiphius | noun (n.) A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PERSİUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (persiu) - Words That Begins with persiu:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (persi) - Words That Begins with persi:
| 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. |
| persico | noun (n.) = Persicot. |
| persienne | noun (n.) Properly, printed calico, whether Oriental or of fanciful design with flowers, etc., in Western work. Hence, as extended in English, material of a similar character. |
| persiennes | noun (n. pl.) Window blinds having movable slats, similar to Venetian blinds. |
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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| perspirative | adjective (a.) Performing the act of perspiration; perspiratory. |
| perspiratory | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. |
| perspiring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perspire |
| perstreperous | adjective (a.) Noisy; obstreperous. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PERSİUS:
English Words which starts with 'per' and ends with 'ius':
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. |
| 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. |
