| perverted |
being opposite to or different from what is considered right or proper; wicked; distorted. [2 definitions] |
| pervious |
subject to passage or entrance, as by water; permeable. [2 definitions] |
| Pesach |
see "Passover." |
| peseta |
a chief monetary unit, along with the franc, of Andorra, equaling one hundred centimos. [2 definitions] |
| pesewa |
the smaller monetary unit of Ghana. (Cf. cedi.) |
| pesky |
(informal) pestering or annoying. |
| peso |
the chief monetary unit of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the Philippines, equaling one hundred centavos. [3 definitions] |
| pessary |
a device worn in the vagina to correct uterine displacement, or to prevent conception. [2 definitions] |
| pessimism |
the belief that events will turn out badly; tendency to expect the worst. (Cf. optimism.) [3 definitions] |
| pessimist |
one who usu. expects a bad outcome. (Cf. optimist.) [2 definitions] |
| pessimistic |
tending to expect unfavorable outcomes. [2 definitions] |
| pest |
an insect or animal that causes damage to crops or is harmful in other ways. [3 definitions] |
| pester |
to bother continually or repeatedly in ways that are small but annoying; annoy. [2 definitions] |
| pesthole |
a place that is infested or likely to become infested with epidemic disease. |
| pesticide |
a chemical substance used to kill pests, esp. insects that harm crops. |
| pesticide resistance |
the evolved resistance of a pest to one or more pesticides. |
| pesticide-resistent |
of or pertaining to a pest population that has evolved tolerance to one or more pesticides. |
| pestiferous |
bringing, bearing, or breeding infectious disease; pestilential. [2 definitions] |
| pestilence |
an epidemic, usu. deadly, disease; plague. [2 definitions] |
| pestilent |
causing or tending to cause epidemic disease or death; pestilential or fatal. [3 definitions] |
| pestilential |
of, causing, or resembling a pestilence; pestilent. [2 definitions] |