Index of English words, starting with "pe"

(1) - Perineum (n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

(1) - Perineurium (n.) The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

(1) - Period (v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
(2) - Period (v. t.) To put an end to.
(3) - Period (n.) A complete musical sentence.
(4) - Period (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
(5) - Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
(6) - Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
(7) - Period (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
(8) - Period (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
(9) - Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
(10) - Period (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
(11) - Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

(1) - Periodic (a.) Alt. of Periodical
(2) - Periodic (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.

(1) - Periodical (n.) A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
(2) - Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
(3) - Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
(4) - Periodical (a.) Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.
(5) - Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.