Words that start with P

Pita bread is a round, flat bread made from flour, water, yeast, and salt. It is baked at high heat, which can make a hollow pocket inside. Its soft, slightly chewy texture makes it easy to fold or fill.

Pita has roots in the Middle East. It is often used to hold foods such as meat, vegetables, or falafel, and it may also be cut into pieces and served with dips.

Pith is the spongy material found inside plant stems. When you are talking about citrus fruit, pith is the bitter white layer surrounding the sweet flesh of the fruit.

Pizza is a flat, round piece of bread, covered in tomato sauce and lots of other toppings.

The placenta is an organ that grows inside a pregnant woman's uterus, alongside the baby.

The placenta connects the baby to the blood supply of the parent through the umbilical cord. It brings oxygen and nutrients to the baby and removes waste. The placenta is usually delivered after the birth.

Plaid is a pattern made from horizontal and vertical stripes that cross each other. The stripes can be different widths and colors, creating squares or checks. Plaid is often woven into cloth. Things that are plaid include shirts, blankets, scarves, and other items. The word can describe the pattern or the fabric that carries it.

Tartan is a special kind of plaid.

Something is plaintive if it has a sad, mournful tone to it.

A plan is a set of ideas about what you are going to do. You might plan a day out, a trip, or a project.

The people in the picture are planning a military operation.

A plane is a tool for shaving off thin layers of wood, to make something flatter or thinner. Planes are often used to make a sticky door fit better. Planes have handles on them placed so you can get the best force, and the wood itself is shaved off with an adjustable blade under the plane. Planes work best going with the grain of the wood, not across it.
As with many hand tools, you can also buy electric planes that don't require as much force to get them to work.

Planks are wide pieces of lumber. Planks are generally quite large - a smaller, thinner plank would be called a board.

Plant is a word that covers an enormous number of living things in the world. Plants can be divided up into several groups, namely algae (that green slime you find in ponds), bryophytes (non vascular plants, or mosses and lichens - the small, often fuzzy plants that you see growing on rocks or on the ground in damp corners) and tracheophytes.
Tracheophytes, or vascular plants, are the most familiar. They include all the trees, ferns, grass and flowers you see around your neighbourhood. The plant in the picture is a vascular plant, growing in a pot.