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- English Word Perlitic Definition Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.
- English Word Perlous Definition Perilous.
- English Word Perlustration Definition The act of viewing all over.
- English Word Permanable Definition Permanent; durable.
- English Word Permanence Definition Alt. of Permanency
- English Word Permanency Definition The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.
- English Word Permanent Definition Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
- English Word Permanently Definition In a permanent manner.
- English Word Permanganate Definition A salt of permanganic acid.
- English Word Permanganic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids of manganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.
- English Word Permansion Definition Continuance.
- English Word Permeability Definition The quality or state of being permeable.
- English Word Permeable Definition Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light.
- English Word Permeably Definition In a permeable manner.
- English Word Permeant Definition Passing through; permeating.
- English Word Permeate Definition To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
- English Word Permeate Definition To enter and spread through; to pervade.
- English Word Permeated Definition of Permeate
- English Word Permeating Definition of Permeate
- English Word Permeation Definition The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.
- English Word Permian Definition Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era.
- English Word Permian Definition The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
- English Word Permians Definition A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.
- English Word Permiscible Definition Capable of being mixed.
- English Word Permiss Definition A permitted choice; a rhetorical figure in which a thing is committed to the decision of one's opponent.
- English Word Permissibility Definition The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
- English Word Permissible Definition That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.
- English Word Permission Definition The act of permitting or allowing; formal consent; authorization; leave; license or liberty granted.
- English Word Permissive Definition Permitting; granting leave or liberty.
- English Word Permissive Definition Permitted; tolerated; suffered.