| perverse | Showing a deliberate and obstinate desire to behave in a way that is unreasonable or unacceptable | |
| pervasive | Spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people. | |
| perspicacious | Having a ready insight into and understanding of things | |
| personified | To represent a quality, concept, or thing as a person or human form | |
| perquisites | A benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one's job or position | |
| pernicious | Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way | |
| permeated | To spread throughout, pervading every part | |
| peripheral | Relating to or situated on the edge or periphery of something | |
| peripatetic | Traveling from place to place, especially working or based in various places for relatively short periods | |
| perennial | Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring | |