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Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

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Pis forPrincess

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

Pis forPrinter

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.

Pis forPrism

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.

Pis forPrison

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.

Pis forPrisoner

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

Pis forPrivate

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.

Pis forPrize

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.

Pis forProblem

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.
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.

Pis forProm

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.

Pis forProng

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.

Pis forProp

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.
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.

Pis forProphet

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

Pis forPropped

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

Pis forProud

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.

Pis forProw

Prow is another name for the bow or front part of a ship, particularly the part above the waterline. Older ships used to have the highest point of the prow decorated with a carved wooden figurehead, such as the one in the picture.