Words that start with P
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- Paragraph English
- A group of sentences about one idea. It usually starts on a new line.
- Parallel lines Maths
- Lines that always stay the same distance apart and never meet, like railway tracks.
- Parallelogram Maths
- A four-sided shape with two pairs of parallel sides.
- Password Computers
- A secret word or phrase that protects your account. Never share it, except with a parent or guardian.
- Pentagon Maths
- A flat shape with five straight sides.
- Percentage Maths
- A number out of 100. 50 percent means 50 out of every 100, which is half.
- Perimeter Maths
- The distance all the way around the edge of a flat shape.
- Perpendicular Maths
- Meeting another line at a right angle, like the corner of a book.
- Personification English
- Giving human feelings or actions to things that are not human, like "the wind whispered".
- Phishing Computers
- A trick where someone pretends to be a trusted person or company to steal your information.
- Photosynthesis Science
- How green plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make their own food and give out oxygen.
- Pi Maths
- The number you get when you divide the circumference of any circle by its diameter. It is about 3.14.
- Pictograph Maths
- A graph that uses little pictures to show amounts.
- Pie chart Maths
- A circle cut into slices to show how a whole is shared among parts.
- Pixel Computers
- One tiny dot of colour. Pictures on a screen are made from thousands of pixels.
- Place value Maths
- The value of a digit because of where it sits in a number. In 352, the 5 stands for 50.
- Plagiarism English
- Copying someone else's words or work and saying it is yours.
- Planet Science
- A large round object that goes round a star. Earth is a planet.
- Plot English
- What happens in a story, from the beginning to the end.
- Plural English
- More than one. The plural of "book" is "books".
- Poem English
- A piece of writing that uses rhythm, and often rhyme, to share feelings or ideas.
- Pointer Computers
- The arrow on the screen that moves when you move the mouse.
- Pollination Science
- Moving pollen from one flower to another so that seeds can form.
- Pollution Science
- Dirt or harmful things in the air, water or soil.
- Polygon Maths
- A flat shape with straight sides that is closed all the way round, like a triangle or a hexagon.
- Pop-up Computers
- A small window that suddenly appears on a screen, often an advert. Do not click on unknown ones.
- Predator Science
- An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
- Predicate English
- The part of a sentence that tells what the subject does or is.
- Prefix English
- Letters added to the start of a word to change its meaning, like "un" in "unhappy".
- Preposition English
- A word that shows position or direction, like "on", "under" or "to".
- Pressure Science
- How hard a force pushes on a certain area.
- Prey Science
- An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
- Prime number Maths
- A number bigger than 1 that can only be divided exactly by 1 and itself, like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.
- Printer Computers
- A machine that puts words or pictures from a computer onto paper.
- Probability Maths
- How likely it is that something will happen, from impossible to certain.
- Producer Science
- A living thing, like a plant, that makes its own food.
- Product Maths
- The answer you get when you multiply numbers. The product of 6 and 7 is 42.
- Program Computers
- A set of instructions that tells a computer what to do.
- Programming language Computers
- A special language used to write instructions for computers, such as Python or Scratch.
- Pronoun English
- A word that takes the place of a noun, like "he", "she", "it" or "they".
- Proper noun English
- The special name of a person, place or thing, which starts with a capital letter, like Asha or India.
- Proverb English
- A short wise saying, like "a stitch in time saves nine".
- Punctuation English
- Marks such as full stops and commas that make writing clear.
- Pupil Science
- The black circle in the middle of the eye that lets light in.
- Pythagoras theorem Maths
- In a right-angled triangle, the square on the longest side equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides.