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Pertainyms
- noun - meaning relating to or pertaining to
Pertinence
- noun - relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
Pertinency
- noun - relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand
Pertnesses
- noun - inappropriate playfulness
- quality of being lively and confident; "there was a pertness about her that attracted him"
Perturbing
- 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"
- causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
- 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"
Pertusaria
- noun - crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus
Pervasions
- noun - the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
Perversely
- adverb - deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions"
- in a contrary disobedient manner
Perversion
- 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"