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permiso de lactancia: parental leave
permiso de maternidad: maternity leave
permiso de residencia: residence permit
permisología: red tape; paperwork (to get permission for something)
permitir: to allow, permit; to afford, to allow; to indulge in
permitividad: permittivity
permutación: permutation
permutar: to exchange; to permute
pernada: kick
pernambucano: Pernambucan
pernambucano: Pernambucan
pernambuco: brazilwood
pernear: to stomp; to stamp; to walk about; to shake one's legs
pernera: leg (of a pair of trousers, shorts etc.)
pernicioso: damaging, harmful, pernicious
pernil: ham leg of pork; knuckle of pork; dish made out of ham leg; chicken thigh and leg
perno: large spike; bolt
pernocta: overnight stay, a night out (sleeping somewhere else, specially in a hotel)
pernoctación: pernoctation, a night spent sleeping away, particularly not at home
pernoctar: to spend the night; to overnight
pero: but; well well; so; well (used for emphasis); expresses surprise
pero: but (instance of saying "but"); but (restriction)
pero bueno: Expresses indignation, annoyance or surprise: hey; Expresses resignation/acceptance: but oh well, but hey, but whatever you say, but okay; Used for a change of subject: (but) in any case, (but) anyway; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pero, bueno.
pero que muy: totally; damn; shockingly
peroblato: peroblate
perogrullada: truism (obvious truth)
perogrullo: only used in verdad de perogrullo
perol: cauldron
peroncho: Peronist
peroncho: a Peronist person
peroneo: fibular
peronismo: Peronism
peronista: Peronist
peronista: Peronist
peronizar: to cause to become more linked to the Peronist regime
peroné: calf bone, fibula
peroración: peroration; long speech
perorar: to make a speech; to perorate; to talk as if making a speech; to rant; to file (a formal request etc.)
perorata: boring speech, spiel
perovskita: perovskite
peroxiacetona: peroxyacetone
peroxidación: peroxidation
peroxidasa: peroxidase
peroxinitrato: peroxynitrate
peroxinitrito: peroxynitrite
peroxirredoxina: peroxyredoxin
peroxisoma: peroxisome
peroxisomal: peroxisomal
perpendicular: perpendicular
perpendicularidad: perpendicularity
perpendicularmente: perpendicularly
perpetración: perpetration
perpetrador: perpetrator (one who perpetrates a crime or offense)
perpetrar: to carry out (a crime), to perpetrate
perpetua: globe amaranth; helichrysum
perpetuación: perpetuation
perpetuador: perpetuator
perpetuamente: perpetually
perpetuar: to perpetuate
perpetuidad: perpetuity