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Periapt
- - A charm worn as a protection against disease or mischief; an amulet.
Peridia
- noun - outer layer of the spore-bearing organ in many fungi
Peridot
- noun - a pale green variety of chrysolite; used as a gemstone
Perigee
- noun - periapsis in Earth orbit; the point in its orbit where a satellite is nearest to the Earth
Perigon
- noun - an angle of 360 degrees
Periled
- verb - pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops"
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Perilla
- noun - small genus of Asiatic herbs
Perinea
- noun - the general region between the anus and the genital organs
Periods
- noun - (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
- an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
- the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same ti
Perique
- - A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.