Words that start with P

Phlegm is a thick mucus made in the throat and chest. It can be coughed up when you are sick.

Phone is an abbreviation for telephone, either a fixed phone or a cellphone.

A photocopier is a device that makes copies of flat images, like the pages from a book. Photocopiers used to only be able to make black and white copies but today many photocopiers can make color copies too.

extension A piano is a musical instrument that you play with a keyboard. When you press a key on the keyboard, a small felt-covered hammer hits a string inside the piano, which makes a musical note. Pianos are used to make all kinds of music, and are very useful for learning music and composing.

A picnic is a meal eaten outside, away from home. People usually have picnics in a park when the weather is nice. Usually you bring your meal packed in a picnic basket and eat it on the ground on a blanket.

Pide is a Turkish flatbread made from yeast dough. It is often boat-shaped and topped with cheese, meat, vegetables, or an egg. It is baked in a hot oven, so the outside is crisp and the inside stays soft.

In Turkey, filled pide is usually sliced and eaten hot. During Ramadan, round pide bread is also made and shared at meals.

Piebald is another word for pied. It is generally used to describe horses.

An animal is pied or when its coat or feathers has large patches of two or more colors, usually on a white background. Horses with this coat pattern are called piebald.

You pierce something by making a hole in it with something sharp and pointed, like a skewer or a dagger.

Pigs have a large head, short legs and a large body. They eat almost anything, and spend most of their time digging through the ground with their snout looking for food. A male pig is called a boar, a female pig is called a sow and a baby pig is called a piglet. Pigs are generally kept for their meat, which is called pork.