Words that start with P

Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

Pis forPlague

A plague is a widespread outbreak of disease or something else bad, such as a plague of locusts. Plagues cause a lot of death or damage.

Pis forPlain

A plain, also called a savanna, field, grasslands or prairie, is a large open expanse that is covered mostly with grass, and very few trees. Grasslands are found in drier regions all over the world.
Something is plaintive if it has a sad, mournful tone to it.

Pis forPlait

A plait is much the same as a braid. Plaits and braids are a way of weaving your hair.
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.
Plane is short for airplane, or aeroplane.

Pis forPlanet

A planet is a large body that orbits a sun. Planets, unlike suns, do not give off light. Our solar system has eight planets, nine including pluto. They are:

Pis forPlank

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

Pis forPlankton

Plankton are tiny organisms, either plants, animals or bacteria that drift around in the sea. Plankton are a very important food source for larger sea creatures that eat them.

Pis forPlant

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.