| PESHMERGA | • peshmerga n. A term used by Kurds to refer to armed Kurdish fighters. • peshmerga n. The official name of the military forces of Iraqi Kurdistan. • PESHMERGA n. the military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. |
| PESKINESS | • peskiness n. The condition of being pesky. • PESKINESS n. the state of being pesky. |
| PESSARIES | • pessaries n. Plural of pessary. • PESSARY n. a contraceptive device worn in the vagina. |
| PESSIMISM | • pessimism n. A general belief that bad things will happen. • pessimism n. The doctrine that this world is the worst of all possible worlds. • pessimism n. (Computing) The condition of being pessimal. |
| PESSIMIST | • pessimist n. Someone who habitually expects the worst outcome; one who looks on the dark side of things. • PESSIMIST n. one who tends to look on the dark side of things. |
| PESTERERS | • pesterers n. Plural of pesterer. • PESTERER n. one who pesters. |
| PESTERING | • pestering v. Present participle of pester. • pestering n. An act or instance of annoying somebody. • PESTER v. to bother. |
| PESTEROUS | • pesterous adj. (Obsolete) Inclined to pester; vexatious; burdensome. • PESTEROUS adj. inclined to pester. |
| PESTHOLES | • pestholes n. Plural of pesthole. • PESTHOLE n. a place liable to epidemic disease. |
| PESTHOUSE | • pesthouse n. An establishment which provides shelter and/or care to sufferers of pestilence or other contagious infections. • PESTHOUSE n. (historical) a house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease. |
| PESTICIDE | • pesticide n. Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium… • PESTICIDE n. a substance for killing pests. |
| PESTILENT | • pestilent adj. Highly injurious or destructive to life: deadly. • pestilent adj. (Informal) Annoying. • pestilent adj. (Archaic) Harmful to morals or public order. |
| PESTOLOGY | • pestology n. The science of pests and pest control. • PESTOLOGY n. the science of pests. |