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Perrier
- - A short mortar used formerly for throwing stone shot.
- Additional Meaning: Louis Perrier, doctor who bought a mineral water spring in the south of France in1888.
Perries
- noun - a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
- United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858)
- United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
- United States philosopher (1876-1957)
Petrary
- - An ancient war engine for hurling stones.
Petrean
- - Of or pertaining to rock.
Petrels
- noun - relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
Petrify
- verb - cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Petrine
- - Of or pertaining to St. Peter; as, the Petrine Epistles.
Petrols
- noun - a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Petrous
- adjective - (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness
Pharaoh
- noun - the title of the ancient Egyptian kings