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Peronospora
- noun - genus of destructive downy mildews
Perorations
- noun - (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
- a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
Persecutors
- noun - someone who torments
Person Hour
- noun - a time unit used in industry for measuring work
Personhoods
- noun - being a person; "finding her own personhood as a campus activist"
Perspicuous
- adjective - (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument"
Persuasions
- noun - a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
- the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
Perversions
- noun - a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
- an aberrant sexual practice;
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Pestiferous
- adjective - causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"
- contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
- likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers"
- tending to corrupt or pervert
Petrol Bomb
- noun - a crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick