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Perthite
- - A kind of feldspar consisting of a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors.
Pertness
- noun - inappropriate playfulness
- quality of being lively and confident; "there was a pertness about her that attracted him"
Perturbs
- verb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
- throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Pertused
- - Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.
Pestered
- verb - annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
- Annoyed
- Bully or torment
- nag
- troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager"
Pesterer
- noun - a persistently annoying person
Pesthole
- noun - a breeding ground for epidemic disease
Pestling
- verb - grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"
Petteria
- noun - one species: Dalmatian laburnum
Pettiest
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
- inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- Most trivial