10 Letter Words for Pernicious
pernicious
9 Letter Words for Pernicious
coinspire, precision
8 Letter Words for Pernicious
cinerous, coinsure, conspire, coprinus, crispine, cusinero, epinosic, incisure, incorpse, incourse, iriscope, nourices, opinicus, pecorini, poncirus, pouncers, precious, pruinose, recision, ripienos, rouncies, sciurine, soricine
7 Letter Words for Pernicious
ceriops, cerosin, coenuri, coiners, conspue, conures, copiers, copsier, coupers, crepons, crinose, crispen, crispin, cronies, croupes, cruisie, cuisine, cuprein, cuprose, curiosi, curnies, encrisp, eosinic, ericius, euripos, incisor, incurse, inpours, inspire, insuper, irenics, ironice, ironies, nicoise, nispero, noisier, oneiric, opiners, orceins, orcines, orcinus, orpines, pericon, persico, piceous, pincers, pioners, pionies, pirnies, piscine, poisure, poncier, porcine, porcini, pouncer, pounces, pouries, preciso, princes, proines, pruines, psionic, psocine, puceron, purines, recoins, recoups, resinic, ricinus, ripieno, rounces, ruspone, scopine, scourie, sericin, sericon, sinoper, sinopic, sinopie, sirenic, snipier, soupier, spicier, spinier, uncopes, uncrisp, unpoise, unropes, uprisen, urinose
6 Letter Words for Pernicious
censor, cepous, cerous, coiner, conure, copens, copers, copier, copies, cories, coriin, cornus, corpse, corpus, corsie, cosine, couper, coupes, coures, courie, course, cousin, crepis, crepon, crines, cripes, croise, crones, cronie, cronus, crosne, croupe, croups, crouse, cruise, crusie, cuerpo, cuirie, cuorin, curies, curine, curios, curnie, curpin, cursen, erucin, espino, eupion, euripi, icones, incise, incorp, incoup, incurs, incuse, inosic, inpour, insure, inures, ionics, irenic, irones, ironic, neuric, noires, norice, nosier, oncers, oniric, opiner, opines, orcein, orcine, orcins, orpinc, orpine, orpins, oscine, ounces, pernio, pernis, persic, persio, person, picein, picine, picris, pieris, pincer, pineus, pinier, pinies, pioner, pionic, pirnie, poiser, ponces, ponier, ponies, poseur, posier, poucer, pounce, pourie, pouser, precis, prices, prince, prinos, prions, prison, procne, proine, proins, prones, pronic, pruine, prunes, psoric, puisne, punces, punier, purine, purins, recoin, recons, recoup, repins, respin, ricine, ricins, ripens, rouens, rounce, roupie, rusine, scipio, scrine, sencio, senior, sepion, sniper, soneri, souper, source, souren, speron, spicer, spinor, spiric, spruce, spurne, superi, supine, uncope, uncore, unepic, unesco, unripe, unrips, unrope, unsore, uprein, uprise, uprose, urines, uronic, ursine, ursone
5 Letter Words for Pernicious
cerin, ceros, cines, cions, cipro, cires, cirio, coins, coirs, coner, cones, conus, copei, copen, coper, copes, copis, copse, copus, cores, corni, corns, cornu, corpn, corps, corse, cosen, cosie, cosin, coupe, coups, coure, cours, cries, crine, cripe, crips, crise, crisp, crius, crois, crone, crops, crose, croup, crues, cruse, cunei, cures, curie, curin, curio, curns, curse, cursi, cusie, ecrus, encup, eosin, epics, epris, erics, euois, euros, iceni, icers, icier, icons, incor, incur, incus, insep, insue, inure, ionic, ireos, irone, irons, irous, necro, nicer, niris, nisei, noire, noirs, noise, nopes, norie, noris, norse, noser, noups, nurse, oisin, oncer, onces, oncus, oners, opens, opine, opsin, orcin, orcus, ornes, ornis, orpin, oscin, osier, ounce, ourie, pecos, penis, peons, peris, perns, picus, piers, piner, pines, pinic, pinus, pions, pious, pirns, pisco, piuri, pocus, poire, poise, ponce, pones, pores, porns, porus, poser, pouce, pours, price, pries, prine, prion, prius, proin, prone, prose, prune, psion, pucer, puces, puers, punce, punic, purin, puris, purse, recip, recon, reins, repic, repin, repos, resin, resun, resup, rices, ricin, rines, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, roins, rones, ropes, rosin, rouen, roues, roups, rouse, ruins, runes, runic, rupie, scion, scone, scope, score, scorn, scoup, scour, scrin, scrip, secno, senor, sepic, seric, serin, serio, seron, sicer, sieur, since, siper, siren, siroc, sirop, snerp, snipe, snore, snurp, socii, sonce, sonic, souce, speir, spice, spier, spine, spire, spiro, spore, sprue, spurn, sucre, suine, super, unces, uncos, unice, unrip, ureic, urine, urson, usine, usnic
4 Letter Words for Pernicious
cens, ceps, cern, cero, cine, cion, cipo, cire, coes, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, cope, copr, cops, core, corn, corp, cors, cose, coue, coup, cour, cpus, cres, crin, crip, cris, crop, crpe, crue, crup, crus, cues, cuir, cuon, cups, cure, curn, curs, cusp, econ, ecru, ecus, eons, epic, epos, eric, erin, eris, erns, eros, eruc, esop, euoi, euro, icer, ices, icon, incr, inro, insp, iocs, ions, ipse, ipso, ires, iris, iron, irpe, iure, neps, nice, nies, nips, nisi, noes, noir, nope, nore, nori, nose, noup, nous, nsec, nurs, oeci, once, oner, ones, onus, opec, open, opes, opus, orcs, ores, oups, ourn, ours, pecs, peni, pens, peon, peri, pern, pers, peru, peso, pice, pico, pics, pien, pier, pies, pine, pino, pins, pion, pirn, pirs, pise, piso, pius, pnce, pois, pone, pons, porc, pore, porn, pose, pour, prec, pres, prie, prin, prio, proc, pron, pros, psec, puce, puer, puir, puns, pure, puri, purs, recs, rein, reno, repo, reps, resp, rice, ries, rine, rins, ripe, rips, risc, rise, risp, rocs, roes, roin, rone, rope, rose, roue, roun, roup, rous, rucs, ruen, rues, ruin, rune, runs, ruse, scop, scun, scup, scur, seco, seir, seor, sepn, sero, sice, sien, sier, sine, sion, sipe, sire, siri, snip, snop, snup, snur, soce, soir, sone, sope, sore, sori, sorn, soup, sour, spec, spic, spie, spin, spor, spue, spun, spur, suci, suer, sune, suni, supe, supr, sure, unce, unci, unco, uncs, unie, unio, unis, upon, ures, uric, urns, urps, user
3 Letter Words for Pernicious
cen, ceo, cep, cer, cie, cir, cis, cns, con, cop, cor, cos, cpi, cpo, cpr, cps, cpu, cro, crs, cru, csi, csp, cue, cun, cup, cur, eco, ecu, eir, enc, ens, eon, eos, epi, ern, ers, esc, esp, esr, esu, ice, inc, ins, ion, ios, iou, ipo, ipr, ips, ire, irs, ise, isn, iso, nco, nei, neo, nep, nie, nip, nis, nor, nos, nur, nus, oer, oes, oie, oii, ois, one, oni, ons, ope, ops, orc, ore, ors, ose, osi, oui, oup, our, ous, pci, pec, pen, per, pes, pic, pie, pin, pir, pis, piu, poi, pon, por, pos, prc, pre, prn, pro, prs, psi, pun, pur, pus, rec, rei, rep, res, rie, rin, rio, rip, roc, roe, roi, ron, ros, rps, ruc, rue, run, sci, scr, sec, sei, sen, sep, ser, sic, sie, sin, sip, sir, soc, son, sop, sou, sri, sue, sui, sun, sup, sur, unc, uni, unp, uns, upo, ups, ure, urn, urp, urs, use
Definitions for Pernicious
[1] causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
[2] deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease.
[3] Obsolete . evil; wicked.
[4] wicked or malicious pernicious lies
[5] causing grave harm; deadly
Words related to Pernicious
devastating, noxious, deadly, poisonous, virulent, malicious, harmful, toxic, nefarious, detrimental, dangerous, lethal, ruinous, destructive, damaging, baleful, deleterious, evil, fatal, iniquitous
Words nearby Pernicious
permutation, permutation group, permute, pernambuco, pernancy, pernicious, pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia, pernicious vomiting, pernickety, pernik
Origin of Pernicious
1515–25; < Latin perniciōsus ruinous, equivalent to pernici(ēs ) ruin (per- per- + -nici-, combining form of nex death, murder (stem nec- ) + -iēs noun suffix) + -ōsus -ous
Other words from Pernicious
per·ni·cious·ly , adverb
per·ni·cious·ness , noun
un·per·ni·cious , adjective
un·per·ni·cious·ly , adverb
Word origin for Pernicious
C16: from Latin perniciōsus, from perniciēs ruin, from per- (intensive) + nex death
Synonyms for Pernicious
damaging, dangerous, deadly, destructive, detrimental, devastating, harmful, lethal, malicious, nefarious, noxious, poisonous, ruinous, toxic, virulent, baleful, deleterious, evil, fatal, iniquitous, injurious, killing, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, noisome, offensive, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, sinister, venomous, wicked