perturbation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset
Pertusaria
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus
Pertusariaceae
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a fungus family of division Lichenes
pertussis
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane
peru
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries
peruke
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a wig for men that was fashionable in the 17th and 18th centuries
perusal
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ reading carefully with intent to remember
perusing
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ reading carefully with intent to remember
Perutz
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ English biochemist (born in Austria); studied the molecular structure of blood (1914-2002)
Peruvian cotton
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ cotton with long rough hairy fibers
Peruvian current
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west
peruvian
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a native or inhabitant of Peru
Peruvian bark
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine
Peruvian lily
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an Andean herb having umbels of showy pinkish-purple lily-like flowers
Peruvian balsam
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ tree of South and Central America yielding an aromatic balsam
pervaporation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the concentration of a colloidal solution whose colloid will not pass through a semipermeable membrane; solution is placed in a bag of the membrane and the solvent is evaporated off
pervasion
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
pervasiveness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the quality of filling or spreading throughout; "the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways"
perverseness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
perverseness
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"