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Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

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P is for Prince

A prince is the son of a king or queen. You can also become a prince by marrying a princess.

P is for Princess

A princess is the daughter of a king or queen. You can also become a princess by marrying a prince.

P is for Principal

A principal is someone who runs a school, doing more administrative work than teaching. In some countries, a principal is called a headmaster or headmistress.

P is for Printer

A printer is a device that you connect to a computer. Printers turn files that you can only see on the computer's screen into printed images on a piece of paper.

P is for Prism

A prism is a clear, solid object, usually shaped with a triangle on the top and bottom and straight sides. Prisms are used to change the direction of light, or to split it up into its colours like a rainbow.

P is for Prison

A prison, also called a jail, gaol or penitentiary, is a place where people who have done bad things are locked up as a punishment. Some people can be put in jail for many, many years because they have done something very, very bad.

P is for Prisoner

A prisoner, also called an inmate, is someone who has done something bad and been put into prison as a punishment.

P is for Private

Something is private if it is only for the use of one person, or a specific group of people, and isn't to be shared with anyone else. For example, a private bathroom or a private club.

The opposite of private is public.

P is for Prize

A prize is something you get given when you win a competition. A prize may be a special ribbon like in the picture, a trophy, or some money.

P is for Problem

A problem is any question or situation that is difficult or complicated.
The cat in the picture has a problem. It is stuck up a tree and doesn't know how to get down.
You procrastinate when you delay something until later. Procrastination is only caused by yourself, unlike a delay you cannot be procrastinated by an outside influence like bad weather. Students often procrastinate doing their assignments.

P is for Projectile

A projectile is something that is fired from a weapon at high speed. Anything can be used as a projectile, but most weapons have very specific and effective types of projectiles. Examples of projectiles are bullets and cannon balls.

P is for Prom

A prom, or formal, is a formal attire dance usually held by a school or college at the end of the academic year.
Prom is short for promenade.

P is for Prong

A prong is any thin, pointy object, particularly a part of an animal's horns or antlers. The end of some tools, like the garden fork in the picture, are also prongs.

P is for Prop

You prop something up when you support it, or stop it from falling over. The wall in the picture is being propped up by a piece of wood.

P is for Propeller

A propellor is a type of fan that is used on planes and ships to propel them forward. Sometimes a propeller is called a screw.

P is for Prophet

A prophet is someone who speaks for God or a deity.

P is for Propped

Propped is the past tense of prop, or describes something that is being supported by a prop.

P is for Protractor

A protractor is a device used for measuring angles. You can get protractors as both half and full circles. Protractors are also useful for drawing angles.

P is for Proud

You feel proud when you have a good feeling about something that you have done, or something that someone else has done. A parent may be proud of their child who has just graduated university. A child may be proud of making a very good painting.
The boy in the picture is proud of his newborn baby brother.