up to Letter

Words that start with P

Purple ponies prance through a pink palace in Pittsburg.

Showing 161-180 of 416

P is for Photocopier

A photocopier is a device that makes copies of flat images, like the pages from a book. Photocopiers used to only be able to make black and white copies but today many photocopiers can make color copies too.
A photographer is someone who takes photos of people, places or things for a living. While anyone can simply use a camera, photographers have an eye for beauty and composition and can take photographs that other people find pleasing to look at.

P is for Piano

A piano is a musical instrument that you play with a keyboard. When you press a key on the keyboard, a small felt-covered hammer hits a string inside the piano, which makes a musical note. Pianos are used to make all kinds of music, and are very useful for learning music and composing.

P is for Pickle

Pickling is a way of preserving food. The most common vegetables pickled today are cucumbers, olives and onions.
Pickling is a way of preserving food by storing it in acid, either directly by using vinegar or by fermenting food in salty water to make lactic acid. Herbs like garlic and mustard are often added to pickles both for flavour and to help keep germs at bay.

P is for Picnic

A picnic is a meal eaten outside, away from home. People usually have picnics in a park when the weather is nice. Usually you bring your meal packed in a picnic basket and eat it on the ground on a blanket.

P is for Pie

A pie is a type of food that has a layer of pastry on the outside and some kind of filling on the inside. Sweet pies usually have sweet pastry too. Pies can be sweet or savoury, and be made from fruit or meat. A pie that doesn't have a lid is called a tart.

P is for Piebald

Piebald is another word for pied. It is generally used to describe horses.

P is for Piece

A piece is a part of something larger, like a piece of pie or a piece of wood.

P is for Pied

An animal is pied or when its coat or feathers has large patches of two or more colors, usually on a white background. Horses with this coat pattern are called piebald.

P is for Pierce

You pierce something by making a hole in it with something sharp and pointed, like a skewer or a dagger.

P is for Piercing

A piercing is a hole made through some part of your body, with a piece of jewelry worn in the hole. The most common part of the body that people get pierced is their ears.

P is for Pig

Pigs have a large head, short legs and a large body. They eat almost anything, and spend most of their time digging through the ground with their snout looking for food. A male pig is called a boar, a female pig is called a sow and a baby pig is called a piglet. Pigs are generally kept for their meat, which is called pork.

P is for Pigeon

The common pigeon, or rock pigeon, is found mostly in cities all over the world. They scavenge for food in trash where people live, and people feed them too. The wild version of the rock pigeon used to live on cliffs by the sea. In cities, they are often found high up on buildings, which isn't far removed from their natural habitat.

P is for Piggy bank

A piggy bank or money box is a container you use to store coins, and are usually used by children to save money. Piggy banks can be any shape but are most commonly shaped like a pig. They have a slot in the top to put coins in, and an opening at the bottom to get them out again.

P is for Piglet

A piglet is a baby pig.

P is for Pigment

Pigment is a substance that is so strongly colored that it can be used to change the color of other things too. Pigments are used to tint paint. The best kinds of pigment are ones that are permanent.

P is for Pigtails

Pigtails are braids or ponytails, one on each side of your head. Children are more likely to have this hairstyle than adults.

P is for Pika

A pika is a small, furry animal with short ears and a rounded body, often colored brown or gray. It lives in rocky mountain areas. Pikas dry and store plants as "hay" for winter. They look like rodents, but are more closely related to rabbits and hares.

P is for Pile

Many things stacked on top of each other in no particular order is called a pile.
The photo is of a pile of tyres.