English words starting with per

Meanings of Per:

preposition

For each (used with units to express a rate).

Usage examples:

He charges £2 per square yard

prefix

Through; all over.

Usage examples:

Perforation

Meanings of Per se:

idiom

With respect to its inherent nature

adverb

By or in itself or themselves; intrinsically.

Usage examples:

It is not these facts per se that are important

Meanings of Per-annum:

adverb

Used to refer to an amount that is produced, sold, spent, etc. each year

Usage examples:

The country exports goods worth $600 million per annum.

Meanings of Per-capita:

adjective

For each person, esp. when considering all of the people in a group

Usage examples:

New hampshire ranks second per capita in the percentage of national guard members who served in ira…

Meanings of Per-diem:

adjective

For each day

Usage examples:

Per diem allowance/payment/rate city officials received per diem payments of about $890 each., they…

Meanings of Peracetate:

noun

An ester or salt of peracetic acid.

Meanings of Peracid:

noun

An acid which contains a peroxide group, especially (in organic chemistry) the group —co·o·oh.

Meanings of Peracids:

noun

An acid which contains a peroxide group, especially (in organic chemistry) the group —co·o·oh.

Meanings of Peracute:

adjective

(of a disease) very severe and of very short duration, generally proving quickly fatal.

Usage examples:

The peracute form results in sudden death

Meanings of Peradventure:

adverb

Perhaps.

Usage examples:

Peradventure i'm not as wealthy as he is

noun

Uncertainty or doubt as to whether something is the case.

Usage examples:

That shows beyond peradventure the strength of the economy

Meanings of Peragration:

noun

Generally. the action of travelling through or traversing something; an instance of this. rare after 17th century.

Meanings of Perai:

noun

Piranha.

Meanings of Peramble:

noun

A long rambling tale or speech.

verb

To wander or ramble in speaking. now english regional (lincolnshire regional).

Meanings of Perambulant:

adjective

Perambulating; able to perambulate; strolling, itinerant.

Meanings of Perambulate:

verb

Walk or travel through or round a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way.

Usage examples:

The locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare

Meanings of Perambulated:

verb

Walk or travel through or round a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way.

Usage examples:

The locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare

Meanings of Perambulates:

verb

Walk or travel through or round a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way.

Usage examples:

The locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare

Meanings of Perambulating:

verb

Walk or travel through or round a place or area, especially for pleasure and in a leisurely way.

Usage examples:

The locals perambulate up and down the thoroughfare

Meanings of Perambulator:

noun

A pram.

Usage examples:

Only the coaches and perambulators are in motion.

Meanings of Perambulators:

noun

A pram.

Usage examples:

Only the coaches and perambulators are in motion.

Meanings of Perameles:

noun

A genus of marsupials comprising the long-nosed bandicoots of australia (and formerly all other bandicoots); (also perameles) an animal of this genus (now rare).

Meanings of Perameloid:

adjective

Originally: resembling a marsupial of the family peramelidae. later: of, relating to, or designating marsupials of the superfamily perameloidea, which includes peramelidae and related families.

noun

A perameloid marsupial.

Meanings of Perborate:

noun

A salt which is an oxidized borate containing a peroxide linkage, especially a sodium salt of this kind used as a bleach.

Usage examples:

One of the common peroxide bleaches, perborate, produces boron when it breaks down

Meanings of Percale:

noun

A closely woven fine cotton fabric.

Usage examples:

Six fine percale sheets

Meanings of Percaline:

noun

A kind of lustrous cotton fabric, originally made in france.