Peronospora
— Noun
– English
～ genus of destructive downy mildews
Peronosporaceae
— Noun
– English
～ parasitic fungi: downy mildews
Peronosporales
— Noun
– English
～ order of chiefly parasitic lower fungi: Albuginaceae and Peronosporaceae and Pythiaceae
perorate
— Verb
– English
～ conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation
perorate
— Verb
– English
～ deliver an oration in grandiloquent style
peroration
— Noun
– English
～ (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"
peroration
— Noun
– English
～ a flowery and highly rhetorical oration
peroxidase
— Noun
– English
～ any of a group of enzymes (occurring especially in plant cells) that catalyze the oxidation of a compound by a peroxide
peroxide
— Noun
– English
～ an inorganic compound containing the divalent ion -O-O-
peroxide blonde
— Noun
– English
～ a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide
peroxide blond
— Noun
– English
～ a blond whose hair is bleached with peroxide
peroxide
— Noun
– English
～ a viscous liquid with strong oxidizing properties; a powerful bleaching agent; also used (in aqueous solutions) as a mild disinfectant and (in strong concentrations) as an oxidant in rocket fuels
peroxide
— Verb
– English
～ bleach with peroxide; "She must peroxide her hair-it looks unnaturally blond"
perpendicular
— Noun
– English
～ a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point
perpendicular
— Noun
– English
～ an extremely steep face
perpendicular
— Noun
– English
～ a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting
perpendicular
— Noun
– English
～ a straight line at right angles to another line
perpendicular
— Adjective
– English
～ intersecting at or forming right angles; "the axes are perpendicular to each other"
perpendicular
— Adjective
– English
～ at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; "a vertical camera angle"; "the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab"; "measure the perpendicular height"
perpendicular
— Adjective
– English
～ so steep as to be nearly veritcal; "the great perpendicular face of the cliff"