Words that start with P

Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

Pis forPupil

Your pupil is the black central part of your eye. The pupil is actually a hole in the center of your iris that lets light into your eye so you can see. Your pupil gets smaller when it is very bright, and big when it is dark. Some animals, like cats, have slit-shaped pupils not round ones.

Pis forPuppet

Puppets are models of people or animals that you can control and make them move how you want to. Puppets are worked by putting your hand inside them, or by moving them using pieces of string. You use puppets to make up plays and tell stories. An interesting kind of puppet is the shadow puppet, where instead of looking at the puppets performing you look at their shadows instead.

Pis forPuppy

A puppy, or pup, is a baby dog or wolf. Dogs are generally called puppies until they are a year old. When a mother dog has puppies, there are usually about six of them born at once.

Pis forPure

Something is pure if it is made up of all the one kind of thing, with nothing different. Something pure has no contaminations or anything added. The rose in the picture is pure white.

Pis forPuree

You puree food by pushing it through a sieve or putting it into a blender so it becomes a thick liquid, without any lumps.

Pis forPurple

Purple is the colour of some flowers and fruits. The colour purple can be made by mixing blue and red paint. The flower in the picture is purple.

Pis forPurse

The word 'purse' can have two meanings, depending on if you speak British English or not. In British English, a purse is very similar to a wallet but has a coin compartment and is only used by girls and women. Most people would use the word purse as another name for a small handbag.

Pis forPush

When you push something it goes away from you. When you pull something it comes towards you. The little girl in the picture is pushing a big stone wheel.

Pis forPuss

Puss is a short word for pussycat. People often use it as a name for a cat, or to call a cat.

Pis forPut

Put means to place something somewhere, or to stay in one place. For example "stay put" or "put it down".