Words that start with P

Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

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.
Scientific name: infraorder: fulgoromorpha
Planthoppers are a group of insects that come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but most often green and leaf-shaped. They can hop short distances like a grasshopper, hence their name.

Pis forPlaster

Plaster is a white powdered substance that is made from gypsum, a kind of stone. When water is added to plaster it stays as a wet paste for a little while but then it goes hard. As it goes hard it gets hot - plaster setting is an exothermic reaction. If you are going to put plaster on your skin you should do it slowly, in thin layers or you could get burnt. Today, plaster is most commonly used mixed with lime to line the inside walls of houses, or put into bandages to hold a broken bone in place as it heals.

Pis forPlastic

Plastics are a synthetic material that can be cast into virtually any shape. Plastics can range from hard to soft, can be flexible or firm, transparent or opaque. Plastics of various kinds are used in the making or packaging of virtually everything nowadays.
Plastic wrap, also known as Glad wrap, cling wrap, cling film, Saran wrap or Stretch-Tite, is a very thin film of plastic that comes on a roll. You use it to wrap up food to keep it fresh. Some kinds of plastic wrap come on very large rolls and are used to wrap up large things like pallets of bricks or newspaper to stop them from being damaged in transit. These kinds of plastic wrap aren't meant to be used on food.

Pis forPlate

A plate is like a bowl, but is very flat and cannot be used to eat very runny things like soup.