Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- DOVETAIL
- Named for the flared shape of a dove's tail feathers, the dovetail's interlocking fan-cut tails and pins resist being pulled apart, one reason it has graced furniture drawer corners for at least 4,000 years.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MORTISE
- The mortise-and-tenon joint, a rectangular cavity receiving a matching tongue, appears in ancient Egyptian furniture and in the timbers of some of the oldest surviving wooden structures in the world.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BISCUIT
- The plate, or biscuit, joint uses a thin oval of compressed wood pressed into matching slots with glue; as the biscuit absorbs moisture it swells, locking the joint tight.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- KERF
- Kerf is the width of the cut a saw blade removes. Knowing your kerf is essential when laying out a joint, even a hairline difference can mean a fit that is too loose to hold or too tight to close.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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The Joint: a free large-print word search
Woodworking joints word search, free and large-print. Dovetail to mortise, every cut that locks wood into wood without a single nail.
About The Joint
A well-cut joint needs no apology. Long before modern adhesives, woodworkers coaxed oak and walnut into interlocking shapes that have held for centuries, drawer sides that still slide true, chair rungs that never loosened, doors that neither rack nor bow. The satisfaction lives in the moment a tenon seats cleanly into its mortise: that quiet, firm thud that tells a craftsperson the fit is right.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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