Discover a wide variety of words that start with “per” and enhance your vocabulary for better communication and understanding.
- Perceive- To become aware or conscious of something.
- Percent- One part in every hundred.
- Perfect- Having all the required elements, qualities, or characteristics.
- Perform- To carry out an action or task.
- Perhaps- Used to express uncertainty or possibility.
- Period- A length or portion of time.
- Permanent- Lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely.
- Permit- To allow something to happen.
- Perplex- To cause someone to feel confused or baffled.
- Pertain- To be appropriate, related, or applicable.
- Peruse- To read something in a thorough or careful way.
- Persuade- To cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument.
- Pervade- To spread through and be perceived in every part.
- Persistent- Continuing firmly in a course of action despite difficulty.
- Personnel- The people employed in an organization.
- Perspective- A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something.
- Pertinent- Relevant or applicable to a particular matter.
- Periphery- The outer limits or edge of an area or object.
- Perish- To die or suffer destruction.
- Percolate- To filter gradually through a porous surface or substance.
- Perennial- Lasting for a long time or apparently infinite.
- Perceive- To interpret or view something in a particular way.
- Percussion- Musical instruments played by striking with the hand or a stick.
- Peremptory- Insisting on immediate attention or obedience.
- Perjure- To willfully tell an untruth when giving evidence to a court.
- Perjury- The offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after taking an oath.
- Permeate- To spread throughout something.
- Permutation- A way in which a set of things can be ordered or arranged.
- Perpetual- Never ending or changing.
- Perpetrate- To carry out or commit a harmful, illegal, or immoral action.
- Perpetuate- To make something continue indefinitely.
- Persecute- To treat someone harshly or unfairly, especially because of race or political beliefs.
- Persevere- To continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty.
- Personify- To represent a quality or concept in the form of a person.
- Perspire- To sweat.
- Persuasive- Good at persuading someone to do or believe something.
- Perturb- To make someone anxious or unsettled.
- Peruse- To read thoroughly or carefully.
- Pessimism- A tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.
- Pestilence- A fatal epidemic disease.
- Pesticide- A substance used for destroying insects or other pests harmful to plants or animals.
- Petty- Of little importance; trivial.
- Petulant- Childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
- Peripheral- Relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something.
- Perpendicular- At an angle of 90 degrees to a given line, plane, or surface.
- Persecution- The act of treating someone extremely badly, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.
- Periscope- An apparatus consisting mainly of a tube with mirrors or prisms, used for observing objects from a concealed or protected position.
- Persona- The aspect of someone’s character that is presented to or perceived by others.
- Personage- A person (often used to express their significance, importance, or elevated status).
- Personal- Relating to or affecting a particular person rather than anyone else.
- Personalize- Design or produce (something) to meet someone’s individual requirements.
- Personnel- People employed in an organization or engaged in an organized undertaking.
- Perspicacious- Having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
- Perspicuity- The quality of being clearly expressed or easily understood.
- Persuasion- The action or process of persuading someone or of being persuaded to do or believe something.
- Pertinacious- Holding firmly to an opinion or a course of action.
- Pertinent- Relevant or applicable to a particular matter; apposite.
- Perturbation- Anxiety; mental uneasiness.
- Perverse- Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable.
- Pervert- To alter (something) from its original course, meaning, or state to a distortion or corruption of what was first intended.
- Pervious- Allowing water to pass through; permeable.
- Pester- Trouble or annoy (someone) with frequent or persistent requests or interruptions.
- Pestiferous- Harboring infection and disease.
- Pestle- A heavy tool with a rounded end, used for crushing and grinding substances such as spices or drugs.
- Petulance- The quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
- Petunia- A plant of the nightshade family with brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers.
- Periwinkle- A plant with typically violet or blue flowers, used for ground cover.
- Peripatetic- Traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
- Peritoneum- The membrane lining the cavity of the abdomen and covering the abdominal organs.
- Periwigs- A wig, especially one worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Perlustrate- To examine thoroughly.
- Permanganate- A salt or ester of permanganic acid.
- Permutable- Able to be changed or exchanged.
- Permutate- To change the order, especially in a permutation.
- Peroration- The concluding part of a speech, typically intended to inspire enthusiasm in the audience.
- Perquisite- A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one’s job or position.
- Perron- A flight of steps leading to a building.
- Perse- A dark grayish-blue or purple color.
- Persecutory- Relating to or characterized by persistent harassment or pejorative treatment.
- Persiflage- Light and slightly contemptuous mockery or banter.
- Persistency- Continued existence or occurrence.
- Personalism- A philosophical approach that emphasizes the importance of human persons.
- Personalty- Personal property as opposed to real property.
- Perstringe- To criticize severely; to censure sharply.
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