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personnel navigant commercial: cabin crew
personnel navigant technique: cockpit crew
personnellement: personally; as far as I'm concerned
personnification: personification (person, thing or name typifying a certain quality or idea)
personnifier: to personify
perspectif: perspective
perspective: perspective; prospect
perspective cavalière: cavalier perspective, cavalier projection, parallel perspective, isometric projection, one-point perspective, oblique projection
perspective linéaire: linear perspective
perspectivisme: perspectivism
perspicace: perspicacious, insightful, perceptive, observant (showing keen insight)
perspicacité: insight, acumen, perspicacity
perspiration: perspiration
persuader: to persuade
persuasif: persuasive
persuasion: persuasion
persuasivement: persuasively
persulfate: persulfate
persulfure: persulfide
persulfurique: persulfuric / persulphuric
persécuter: to persecute; to annoy, to irritate
persécuteur: persecutor
persécution: persecution
persévéramment: persistently
persévérance: perseverance (persistent determination to adhere to a course of action)
persévérant: persevering; persistent
persévération: perseveration
persévérer: to persevere
perte: loss; ruin; undoing
perte de connaissance: loss of consciousness
perte de temps: waste of time
perte sèche: deadweight loss
pertechnétate: pertechnetate
pertechnétique: pertechnetic
pertes et profits: profit and loss
pertes et profits: P&L
pertinemment: pertinently; full well
pertinence: pertinence; relevance
pertinent: pertinent; relevant; judicious; justified
pertuis: hole; narrows; strait
pertuisane: partisan (kind of halberd)
perturbant: unsettling, disturbing, troubling
perturbateur: agitator, troublemaker
perturbateur: disruptive
perturbation: disturbance; derangement
perturber: to disrupt, to disturb; to throw off, to fluster
perturbé: perturbed, disturbed
pervaporer: to pervaporate
pervenche: periwinkle; female traffic warden, meter maid (US)
pervenche de Madagascar: synonym of catharanthe rose (“rosy periwinkle”) (Catharanthus roseus) (L.) G. Don.)
pervers: perverse; sexually perverted, raunchy
pervers: a lecher
perversement: perversely; in a perverted fashion
perversion: perversion
perversité: perversity; depravity
pervertir: to worsen; to corrupt
pervertisses: second-person singular present/imperfect subjunctive of pervertir
pervéance: perveance
perxénate: perxenate
perçage: drilling