Words that start with P

Played is the past tense of play. For example, "the children played in the park".

A playground is an area especially designed for children to play in. Playgrounds are full of brightly colored play equipment, such as swings and slides.

A pleat is a type of fold made in fabric. A garment, usually a skirt or dress that is pleated tends to have many pleats of equal size. Pleats make a garment thicker, warmer and with more room to move.

A plinth is a heavy base made of stone that a statue or other work of art can stand on.

Ploughed is the past tense of plough.

A plough is a device for breaking up the soil in a field or garden before crops are planted. Ploughing the soil makes it softer and easier for plants to grow, and turns the soil over so any vegetation leftover from an earlier crop will go underground and add nutrients to the soil.
Ploughs used to make one furrow at a time and were pulled by horses like in the picture. Today they can make dozens of furrows at a time and are pulled by tractors.

An alternative spelling of plow is plough.

You pluck something by pulling it off at the growing point. People commonly pluck out hairs from their eyebrows, pluck fruit from a tree or vine, or most commonly pluck the feathers from a bird like a chicken to prepare it for cooking. The chicken in the picture has been plucked everywhere except its wings.
Plucking can also describe a short, sharp way of playing an instrument like a guitar, or even be used as another word for courage, as in "he has a lot of pluck".

A plug is a small device, usually made from rubber, that is used to stop up the hole at the bottom of a bath or washbasin. When you are finished using the water, you just pull out the plug and let the water drain away.

Plumage is the name collectively given to all the feathers on a bird.

A plume is a long, fluffy feather, or something that looks like a plume. The picture is of a plume of smoke.
See also: plumage.