10-letter words starting with PER
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter PER. This section showcases how PER at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with PER, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| permission | 14 | the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization | - |
| personally | 15 | in the flesh; without involving anyone else | I went there personally |
| performing | 18 | the performance of a part or role in a drama | - |
| perfection | 17 | an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept | - |
| perception | 16 | becoming aware of something via the senses | - |
| percentage | 15 | a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) | - |
| persistent | 12 | continually recurring to the mind | - |
| persecuted | 15 | - | - |
| persuasive | 15 | intended or having the power to induce action or belief | persuasive eloquence |
| persuasion | 12 | the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action | - |
| perceptive | 19 | having the ability to perceive or understand; keen in discernment | a perceptive eye |
| percussion | 14 | the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments | - |
| peripheral | 17 | electronic equipment external to the circuit board that contains the CPU of a computer | disk drives and printers are important peripherals |
| percolator | 14 | a coffeepot in which boiling water ascends through a central tube and filters back down through a basket of ground coffee beans | - |
| perversion | 15 | an aberrant sexual practice | - |
| perpetuate | 14 | cause to continue or prevail | perpetuate a myth |
| perforated | 16 | having a hole cut through | a perforated eardrum |
| permafrost | 17 | ground that is permanently frozen | - |
| percentile | 14 | (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total | - |
| perpetuity | 17 | the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | - |
| pernicious | 14 | working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way | - |
| permanence | 16 | the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | - |
| periodical | 15 | happening or recurring at regular intervals | - |
| periwinkle | 19 | edible marine gastropod | - |
| personable | 14 | (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
| perspiring | 15 | - | - |
| perfidious | 16 | tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans | the perfidious Judas |
| persisting | 13 | relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | - |
| perplexing | 22 | lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it |
| perversity | 18 | deliberately deviating from what is good | there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism |
| percussive | 17 | involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments | percussive music |
| perilously | 15 | in a dangerous manner | - |
| perishable | 17 | food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated | - |
| perpetrate | 14 | perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | perpetrate a crime |
| perceptual | 16 | of or relating to the act of perceiving | perceptual stimulus |
| permissive | 17 | granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline | direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive |
| perversely | 18 | in a contrary disobedient manner | - |
| permanency | 19 | the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | - |
| persecutor | 14 | someone who torments | - |
| peremptory | 19 | offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | a swaggering peremptory manner |
| peritoneal | 12 | of or relating to or affecting the peritoneum | peritoneal cancer |
| pernickety | 21 | characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details | - |
| permeating | 15 | spreading or spread throughout | - |
| perplexity | 24 | trouble or confusion resulting from complexity | - |
| percolated | 15 | - | - |
| perfective | 20 | the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | - |
| peracidity | 18 | - | - |
| peraeopods | 15 | - | - |
| perborates | 14 | - | - |
| percalines | 14 | - | - |
| perceivers | 17 | - | - |
| perceiving | 18 | - | - |
| percheries | 17 | - | - |
| percherons | 17 | - | - |
| perchloric | 19 | - | - |
| perciforms | 19 | - | - |
| percipient | 16 | characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving | a percipient author |
| percocting | 17 | - | - |
| percoidean | 15 | any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | - |
| percolable | 16 | - | - |
| percolates | 14 | - | - |
| percurrent | 14 | - | - |
| percursory | 17 | - | - |
| percussant | 14 | - | - |
| percussing | 15 | - | - |
| percussors | 14 | - | - |
| percutient | 14 | - | - |
| perdendosi | 14 | - | - |
| perditions | 13 | - | - |
| perdurable | 15 | very long lasting | the perdurable granite of the ancient Appalachian spine of the continent |
| perdurably | 18 | - | - |
| perdurance | 15 | - | - |
| peregrines | 13 | - | - |
| pereiopods | 15 | - | - |
| perennated | 13 | - | - |
| perennates | 12 | - | - |
| perennials | 12 | - | - |
| perfecters | 17 | - | - |
| perfectest | 17 | - | - |
| perfecting | 18 | - | - |
| perfectors | 17 | - | - |
| perfervors | 18 | - | - |
| perfervour | 18 | - | - |
| perficient | 17 | - | - |
| perfoliate | 15 | (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem | - |
| perforable | 17 | - | - |
| perforates | 15 | - | - |
| perforator | 15 | - | - |
| perforatus | 15 | - | - |
| performers | 17 | - | - |
| perfumiers | 17 | - | - |
| perfumiest | 17 | - | - |
| perfusates | 15 | - | - |
| perfusions | 15 | - | - |
| pergunnahs | 16 | - | - |
| periastron | 12 | - | - |
| periblasts | 14 | - | - |
| pericardia | 15 | - | - |
| pericarpic | 18 | - | - |
| pericenter | 14 | - | - |
| pericentre | 14 | - | - |
| periclases | 14 | - | - |
| periclinal | 14 | - | - |
| periclines | 14 | - | - |
| pericrania | 14 | - | - |
| periculous | 14 | - | - |
| pericycles | 19 | - | - |
| pericyclic | 21 | - | - |
| peridermal | 15 | - | - |
| peridermic | 17 | - | - |
| peridesmia | 15 | - | - |
| peridinian | 13 | flagellate with a thick test composed of plates | - |
| peridinium | 15 | type genus of the family Peridiniidae | - |
| peridotite | 13 | a dark coarse-grained igneous rock consisting principally of olivine | - |
| peridromes | 15 | - | - |
| periegeses | 13 | - | - |
| periegesis | 13 | - | - |
| perigonial | 13 | - | - |
| perigonium | 15 | collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils | - |
| perigynies | 16 | - | - |
| perigynous | 16 | - | - |
| perihelial | 15 | - | - |
| perihelion | 15 | periapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet where it is nearest to the sun | - |
| perikaryal | 19 | - | - |
| perikaryon | 19 | - | - |
| perilymphs | 22 | - | - |
| perimeters | 14 | - | - |
| perimetral | 14 | - | - |
| perimetric | 16 | - | - |
| perimorphs | 19 | - | - |
| perimysium | 19 | the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of muscle fibers | - |
| perinaeums | 14 | - | - |
| perineural | 12 | - | - |
| perineuria | 12 | - | - |
| periodates | 13 | - | - |
| periodides | 14 | - | - |
| periodised | 14 | - | - |
| periodises | 13 | - | - |
| periodized | 23 | - | - |
| periodizes | 22 | - | - |
| periosteal | 12 | - | - |
| periosteum | 14 | a dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones (except at their extremities) and serving as an attachment for tendons and muscles; contains nerves and blood vessels that nourish the enclosed bone | - |
| peripeteia | 14 | a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling |
| peripetian | 14 | - | - |
| peripetias | 14 | - | - |
| peripeties | 14 | - | - |
| peripheric | 19 | - | - |
| periphonic | 19 | - | - |
| periphrase | 17 | - | - |
| periphytic | 22 | - | - |
| periphyton | 20 | - | - |
| periplasms | 16 | - | - |
| periplasts | 14 | - | - |
| peripluses | 14 | - | - |
| periprocts | 16 | - | - |
| peripteral | 14 | having columns on all sides | - |
| perisarcal | 14 | - | - |
| periscians | 14 | - | - |
| periscopes | 16 | - | - |
| periscopic | 18 | - | - |
| perishably | 20 | - | - |
| perisperms | 16 | - | - |
| peristomal | 14 | - | - |
| peristomes | 14 | - | - |
| peristylar | 15 | having columniation completely circling an area of the structure | - |
| peristyles | 15 | - | - |
| peritectic | 16 | - | - |
| perithecia | 17 | - | - |
| peritonaea | 12 | - | - |
| peritoneum | 14 | a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera | - |
| peritracks | 18 | - | - |
| peritricha | 17 | - | - |
| peritrichs | 17 | - | - |
| periwigged | 18 | wearing a wig popular for men in the 17th and 18th centuries | - |
| perjinkety | 26 | - | - |
| perjinkity | 26 | - | - |
| perjurious | 19 | - | - |
| perlemoens | 14 | - | - |
| permabears | 16 | - | - |
| permabulls | 16 | - | - |
| permalinks | 18 | - | - |
| permalloys | 17 | - | - |
| permanents | 14 | - | - |
| permeances | 16 | - | - |
| permeation | 14 | the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | - |
| permeative | 17 | spreading or spread throughout | armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations |
| permeators | 14 | - | - |
| permethrin | 17 | - | - |
| permillage | 15 | - | - |
| permittees | 14 | - | - |
| permitters | 14 | - | - |
| permitting | 15 | - | - |
| permutable | 16 | capable of changing sequence | - |
| permutably | 19 | - | - |
| permutated | 15 | - | - |
| permutates | 14 | - | - |
| pernancies | 14 | - | - |
| pernoctate | 14 | - | - |
| peroneuses | 12 | - | - |
| perorating | 13 | - | - |
| peroration | 12 | a flowery and highly rhetorical oration | - |
| perorators | 12 | - | - |
| perovskias | 19 | - | - |
| perovskite | 19 | - | - |
| peroxidase | 20 | any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide | - |
| peroxiding | 21 | - | - |
| peroxidise | 20 | - | - |
| peroxidize | 29 | - | - |
| peroxisome | 21 | - | - |
| perpending | 16 | - | - |
| perpetuals | 14 | - | - |
| perplexers | 21 | - | - |
| perquisite | 21 | an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | - |
| perruquier | 21 | - | - |
| persecutee | 14 | - | - |
| persecutes | 14 | - | - |
| perseities | 12 | - | - |
| perselines | 12 | - | - |
| persevered | 16 | - | - |
| perseveres | 15 | - | - |
| persicaria | 14 | - | - |
| persiennes | 12 | - | - |
| persiflage | 16 | light teasing | - |
| persifleur | 15 | - | - |
| persimmons | 16 | - | - |
| persisters | 12 | - | - |
| persistive | 15 | - | - |
| personably | 17 | - | - |
| personages | 13 | - | - |
| personalia | 12 | - | - |
| personalty | 15 | movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | - |
| personated | 13 | - | - |
| personates | 12 | - | - |
| personator | 12 | - | - |
| personhood | 16 | being a person | finding her own personhood as a campus activist |
| personised | 13 | - | - |
| personises | 12 | - | - |
| personized | 22 | - | - |
| personizes | 21 | - | - |
| personnels | 12 | - | - |
| perspirate | 14 | - | - |
| perspirier | 14 | - | - |
| perstringe | 13 | - | - |
| persuaders | 13 | - | - |
| persuading | 14 | - | - |
| persuasory | 15 | - | - |
| persulfate | 15 | - | - |
| perswading | 17 | - | - |
| pertaining | 13 | - | - |
| pertinence | 14 | relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | - |
| pertinency | 17 | relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | - |
| pertinents | 12 | - | - |
| pertnesses | 12 | - | - |
| perturbant | 14 | - | - |
| perturbate | 14 | - | - |
| perturbers | 14 | - | - |
| perturbing | 15 | causing distress or worry or anxiety | a revelation that was most perturbing |
| pertusions | 12 | - | - |
| pervasions | 15 | - | - |
| perversest | 15 | - | - |
| perversive | 18 | tending to corrupt or pervert | - |
| perverters | 15 | - | - |
| perverting | 16 | - | - |
| perviating | 16 | - | - |
| perviously | 18 | - | - |
