Words that start with P

Pastiche is a pastry also called a nut roll. Pastiche is made from a dough filled with a sweet nut mixture.

A pasty is a kind of food that is made out of a round piece of pastry folded in half around some kind of filling. Pasties are most commonly filled with vegetables but you can also make a pasty with a meat filling. Pasty is also a word for describing someone who is pale and unhealthy looking.

A patch is a way of mending something that is broken by sticking a piece of something over the hole, and has given rise to the phrase "to patch something up". If you get a hole in the knee of your jeans they can be fixed by stitching a patch over the hole. When something is made entirely of patches, it is called patchwork. Quilts are often made of patchwork. A patch is also the name for a place you grow pumpkins or other vegetables.

Pavlova is a dessert made from a variation of meringue with cornflour added to the mixture. The meringue base is then topped with cream and fresh fruit. Pavlova is an Australian and New Zealand dish, invented in honor of a visiting dancer called Anna Pavlova.

You pay someone when you give them money because they provided some kind of goods or services to you. Most people get paid every week because they work at a job, and they get paid for what they do in their job.