9-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| perfectly | 19 | completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | a perfectly idiotic idea |
| permanent | 13 | a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals | - |
| personnel | 11 | group of people willing to obey orders | - |
| perimeter | 13 | the size of something as given by the distance around it | - |
| perverted | 15 | having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | a perverted translation of the poem |
| performer | 16 | an entertainer who performs a dramatic or musical work for an audience | - |
| perpetual | 13 | uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing | the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy |
| perceived | 17 | detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues | a perceived threat |
| perfected | 17 | (of plans, ideas, etc.) perfectly formed | a graceful but not yet fully perfected literary style |
| persevere | 14 | be persistent, refuse to stop | - |
| perchance | 18 | by chance | - |
| persecute | 13 | cause to suffer | Some religious groups are persecuted in some countries |
| pertinent | 11 | being of striking appropriateness and pertinence | - |
| periscope | 15 | an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field | - |
| perplexed | 21 | full of difficulty or confusion or bewilderment | perplexed language |
| pervasive | 17 | spreading or spread throughout | the pervasive odor of garlic |
| personage | 12 | a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | - |
| perennial | 11 | recurring again and again | perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements |
| persimmon | 15 | any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros | - |
| perturbed | 14 | thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | - |
| perdition | 12 | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell |
| periphery | 19 | the outside boundary or surface of something | - |
| permeated | 14 | - | - |
| perishing | 15 | - | - |
| peregrine | 12 | a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry | - |
| permeable | 15 | allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through | permeable membranes |
| personify | 17 | represent, as of a character on stage | - |
| persuader | 12 | someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | - |
| perfumery | 19 | an establishment where perfumes are made | - |
| pervading | 16 | - | - |
| percolate | 13 | permeate or penetrate gradually | - |
| perforate | 14 | having a hole cut through | a perforated eardrum |
| personate | 11 | attribute human qualities to something | The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous |
| pertussis | 11 | a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane | - |
| perfusing | 15 | - | - |
| permutate | 13 | - | - |
| perspired | 14 | - | - |
| peraeopod | 14 | - | - |
| perborate | 13 | - | - |
| percaline | 13 | - | - |
| perceable | 15 | - | - |
| perceiver | 16 | a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | - |
| perceives | 16 | - | - |
| percental | 13 | - | - |
| percheron | 16 | one of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery | - |
| perchings | 17 | - | - |
| perciform | 18 | - | - |
| percocted | 16 | - | - |
| percolins | 13 | - | - |
| percussed | 14 | - | - |
| percusses | 13 | - | - |
| percussor | 13 | (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes | - |
| perduring | 13 | - | - |
| peregrins | 12 | - | - |
| pereiopod | 14 | - | - |
| perennate | 11 | survive from season to season, of plants | - |
| perennity | 14 | - | - |
| perenties | 11 | - | - |
| pereopods | 14 | - | - |
| perfectas | 16 | - | - |
| perfecter | 16 | a skilled worker who perfects something | although not the inventor he must be recognized as the perfecter of this technique |
| perfector | 16 | - | - |
| perfectos | 16 | - | - |
| perfervid | 18 | characterized by intense emotion | - |
| perfervor | 17 | - | - |
| perfidies | 15 | - | - |
| perforans | 14 | - | - |
| perforant | 14 | - | - |
| performed | 17 | - | - |
| perfumers | 16 | - | - |
| perfumier | 16 | - | - |
| perfuming | 17 | - | - |
| perfusate | 14 | - | - |
| perfusion | 14 | pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels) | - |
| perfusive | 17 | - | - |
| pergunnah | 15 | - | - |
| perhapses | 16 | - | - |
| periaguas | 12 | - | - |
| periaktoi | 15 | - | - |
| periaktos | 15 | - | - |
| perianths | 14 | - | - |
| periapses | 13 | - | - |
| periapsis | 13 | (astronomy) the point in an orbit closest to the body being orbited | - |
| periblast | 13 | - | - |
| periblems | 15 | - | - |
| periboloi | 13 | - | - |
| peribolos | 13 | - | - |
| peribolus | 13 | - | - |
| pericarps | 15 | - | - |
| periclase | 13 | a white solid mineral that occurs naturally as periclase; a source of magnesium | - |
| pericline | 13 | - | - |
| pericones | 13 | - | - |
| pericopae | 15 | - | - |
| pericopal | 15 | - | - |
| pericopes | 15 | - | - |
| pericopic | 17 | - | - |
| pericycle | 18 | - | - |
| periderms | 14 | - | - |
| peridinia | 12 | - | - |
| peridiums | 14 | - | - |
| peridotes | 12 | - | - |
| peridotic | 14 | - | - |
| peridrome | 14 | - | - |
| perigones | 12 | - | - |
| perigonia | 12 | - | - |
| perihelia | 14 | - | - |
| perikarya | 18 | - | - |
| perilling | 12 | - | - |
| perilunes | 11 | - | - |
| perilymph | 21 | the bodily fluid that fills the space between the bony labyrinth and the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear | - |
| perimetry | 16 | - | - |
| perimorph | 18 | - | - |
| perimysia | 16 | - | - |
| perinaeum | 13 | - | - |
| perinatal | 11 | occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after) | perinatal mortality |
| perineums | 13 | - | - |
| periodate | 12 | - | - |
| periodide | 13 | - | - |
| periodids | 13 | - | - |
| perioding | 13 | - | - |
| periodise | 12 | - | - |
| periodize | 21 | - | - |
| periostea | 11 | - | - |
| periotics | 13 | - | - |
| peripatus | 13 | any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | - |
| peripetia | 13 | a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) | - |
| periplasm | 15 | - | - |
| periplast | 13 | - | - |
| periproct | 15 | - | - |
| peripters | 13 | - | - |
| periptery | 16 | - | - |
| perisarcs | 13 | - | - |
| periscian | 13 | - | - |
| perishers | 14 | - | - |
| perisperm | 15 | the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds | - |
| peristome | 13 | (botany) fringe of toothlike appendages surrounding the mouth of a moss capsule | - |
| peristyle | 14 | a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court | - |
| peritonea | 11 | - | - |
| peritrack | 17 | - | - |
| peritrich | 16 | - | - |
| perjurers | 18 | - | - |
| perjuries | 18 | - | - |
| perjuring | 19 | - | - |
| perjurous | 18 | - | - |
| perkiness | 15 | inappropriate playfulness | - |
| perlemoen | 13 | - | - |
| permabear | 15 | - | - |
| permabull | 15 | - | - |
| permalink | 17 | - | - |
| permalloy | 16 | an 80/20 alloy of nickel and iron; easily magnetized and demagnetized | - |
| permatans | 13 | - | - |
| permeably | 18 | - | - |
| permeance | 15 | - | - |
| permeants | 13 | - | - |
| permeases | 13 | - | - |
| permeates | 13 | - | - |
| permeator | 13 | - | - |
| permitted | 14 | - | - |
| permittee | 13 | - | - |
| permitter | 13 | - | - |
| permuting | 14 | - | - |
| perniones | 11 | - | - |
| perorally | 14 | - | - |
| perorated | 12 | - | - |
| perorates | 11 | - | - |
| perorator | 11 | - | - |
| perovskia | 18 | - | - |
| peroxided | 20 | - | - |
| peroxides | 19 | - | - |
| peroxidic | 21 | - | - |
| perpended | 15 | - | - |
| perplexer | 20 | - | - |
| perplexes | 20 | - | - |
| perradial | 12 | - | - |
| perradius | 12 | - | - |
| perruques | 20 | - | - |
| perseline | 11 | - | - |
| persicots | 13 | - | - |
| persienne | 11 | - | - |
| persisted | 12 | - | - |
| persister | 11 | - | - |
| personals | 11 | - | - |
| personise | 11 | - | - |
| personize | 20 | - | - |
| personned | 12 | - | - |
| perspexes | 20 | - | - |
| perspires | 13 | - | - |
| persuaded | 13 | - | - |
| persuades | 12 | - | - |
| perswaded | 16 | - | - |
| perswades | 15 | - | - |
| pertained | 12 | - | - |
| pertaking | 16 | - | - |
| perthites | 14 | - | - |
| perthitic | 16 | - | - |
| perturber | 13 | - | - |
| pertusate | 11 | - | - |
| pertusion | 11 | - | - |
| pertussal | 11 | - | - |
| pertusses | 11 | - | - |
| perusable | 13 | - | - |
| pervaders | 15 | - | - |
| pervasion | 14 | the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance | - |
| perverser | 14 | - | - |
| perverter | 14 | - | - |
| perviated | 15 | - | - |
| perviates | 14 | - | - |
| pervicacy | 21 | - | - |
