| DEPAUPERISE | • depauperise v. Alternative form of depauperize. • DEPAUPERISE v. to free from pauperdom, also DEPAUPERIZE. |
| EMPERISHING | • EMPERISH v. (Spenser) to impair. |
| JASPERISING | • JASPERISE v. to turn into, or cause to resemble, jasper, also JASPERIZE. |
| PAUPERISING | • pauperising v. Present participle of pauperise. • PAUPERISE v. to reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperise the peasantry, also PAUPERIZE. |
| PERISARCOUS | • PERISARCOUS adj. relating to the perisarc, the outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids, also PERISARCAL. |
| PERISELENIA | • PERISELENIUM n. in an elliptical orbit about the moon, that point which is closest to the moon. |
| PERISHABLES | • perishables n. Plural of perishable. • PERISHABLE n. something liable to perish. |
| PERISHINGLY | • perishingly adv. (Colloquial) extremely. • PERISHING adv. PERISH, to die. |
| PERISPERMAL | • PERISPERMAL adj. of or like a perisperm, also PERISPERMIC. |
| PERISPERMIC | • perispermic adj. Relating to the perisperm. • PERISPERMIC adj. of or like a perisperm, also PERISPERMAL. |
| PERISPOMENA | • perispomena n. Plural of perispomenon. • PERISPOMENON n. a word having a circumflex accent on the final syllable. |
| PERISSOLOGY | • perissology n. Superfluity of words; verbosity; long-windedness. • PERISSOLOGY n. superfluity of words, pleonasm. |
| PERISTALITH | • peristalith n. A series of standing stones surrounding a barrow or burial mound. • PERISTALITH n. a prehistoric stone circle. |
| PERISTALSES | • peristalses n. Plural of peristalsis. • PERISTALSIS n. the movement of the food through the gut. |
| PERISTALSIS | • peristalsis n. (Medicine) The rhythmic, wave-like contraction and relaxation of muscles so as to propagate motion… • PERISTALSIS n. the movement of the food through the gut. |
| PERISTALTIC | • peristaltic adj. (Physiology) of or pertaining to peristalsis. • PERISTALTIC adj. relating to peristalsis. |
| PERISTERITE | • peristerite n. (Mineralogy) A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent. • PERISTERITE n. an albite feldspar with a pigeon-like play of colour. |
| PERISTOMIAL | • peristomial adj. Of or pertaining to a peristome. • PERISTOMIAL adj. relating to the peristome, the area, or a structure, surrounding a mouth, also PERISTOMAL, PERISTOMATIC. |
| UNPERISHING | • unperishing adj. That does not perish. • UNPERISHING adj. not perishing. |