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Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

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Port can either mean the left side of a boat, or is another word for a harbour.
Port, the direction, is designated the color red. The opposite of port is starboard.
You might also be interested in port, the drink.

P is for Porthole

A porthole is a small, round window typically seen on ships. Any small, round window on a building or anything else is also given the name porthole.
Portholes on ships may not always be able to be opened. When they can, they must have a watertight seal.

P is for Portrait

A portrait is a painting, drawing or photo of someone. A portrait is often just of someone's head and shoulders, or from their waist up.
Portrait can also refer to any picture or a blank canvas or piece of paper that is vertical, that is with the long sides on the left and right, which is the best way to put your paper to draw a portrait of someone. The opposite of portrait in this case is landscape, which is the best way to put a piece of paper to draw a landscape.

P is for Pose

Posing is holding a position so that someone can draw, paint or take a photo of you. The woman in the picture is posing so that a group of art students can draw her.

P is for Possum

Possums are fairly small creatures that live in trees in Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi. Possums usually sleep during the day and come out at night. Possums eat leaves, flowers and sometimes insects, eggs and meat.
The possums in the photo are trichosurus vulpecula, the common brush-tailed possum.

P is for Post

A post is a vertical piece of wood or metal that is used to make something from. Posts are most often used to make fences out of.

P is for Post office

A post office is a place where letters and parcels are sorted before being delivered to your mailbox. Most post offices also sell cards and gifts, and you can pay your bills at the post office too.

P is for Postcard

A postcard is like a short letter that you send to your friends when you are on vacation. Usually a postcard has a photo of the place you are visiting on one side, and a small space to write a message on the other side.

P is for Poster

A poster is a large piece of paper with words and/or pictures on it. Posters can be purely decorative, or they can be an advertisement for something.

P is for Postman

A postman, mailman or postal officer is someone who delivers letters and parcels to your house. Postal workers usually ride bicycles or motorbikes.

P is for Pot

A pot is a container that is usually made from earthenware or metal. Pots can be used for a great variety of things, and come in different shapes. Most pots are round but some are square, some have handles and some don't, some are narrow at the base and others are the same width the whole way up. Most pots have no lid but some do.
Pots can be used to store things in, to cook food in, or to grow plants in.
Pot is also a slang term for marijuana.

P is for Potato

Potatoes are tubers - they grow underground but are not the central root of the plant like a carrot or turnip. One potato plant can make many potatoes. Potatoes originally came from Peru but are now grown world wide, and are the fourth biggest crop after rice, wheat, and maize.
Potatoes are best known in the form of french fries (chips) or crisps. Potato can be eaten in a huge variety of ways. It can be an ingredient in soups and stews, mashed and eaten with butter, baked, fried, boiled and in a huge variety of other dishes.
A potato masher is a kitchen tool used to crush cooked potatoes into mash. You can also use it to mash other things, like cooked pumpkin or applesauce.

P is for Potoroo

A potoroo is a small, plant-eating marsupial found in Australia. It looks like a rodent with a long nose and has strong back legs for jumping.

Potoroos use their nose to dig for roots, bulbs, and other plants.

P is for Potpourri

Potpourri is a mixture of dried flowers and leaves that are naturally scented. It can be kept in a bowl, or tied into small bags. Ingredients for potpourri can include lavender, cinnamon, dried lemon or orange peel, rosemary, dried rose flowers or cedar.

P is for Potter

A potter is someone who makes mugs, vases, plates and other things out of clay.

P is for Pottery

Pottery is anything made from clay, usually by hand. Pottery includes pots, plates, vases and sculptures.
Pottery is also what you do when you make pots, the art of pottery.

P is for Potty

A potty is a small toilet designed to be just the right size for toddlers who are being toilet trained. Some potties fit onto an adult sized toilet as a kind of second lid.

P is for Pouch

A pouch is a type of small bag that opens at the top. Pouches are often a shape that has a rounded bottom. Some animals, called marsupials have pouches.