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
- BALMY
- Balmy originally meant fragrant and soothing, the same Latin root as 'balm', before it settled into describing warm, gentle weather that feels like a remedy in itself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- OVERCAST
- Overcast is a nautical borrowing: sailors used 'cast' to describe clouds spreading across the sky the way a fishing net is cast over water.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BRISK
- Brisk entered English in the 1500s and has always carried a sense of energizing sharpness, the kind of air that makes you walk a little faster without quite knowing why.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MUGGY
- Muggy likely comes from an old Norse word meaning 'drizzle' or 'mist,' though it now describes the heavy, damp heat that makes a summer afternoon feel like hard work.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Weather Words: a free large-print word search
Weather Words word search, free and large-print, wander through the language of skies: crisp mornings, balmy afternoons, and everything in between.
About Weather Words
Every day hands us a fresh vocabulary lesson the moment we step outside. A sky can be merely cloudy or dramatically overcast; a cold can bite as bitter or nip as brisk; a haze can soften the hills into something almost dreamlike. These small, precise words are the quiet poetry of ordinary life, passed down through generations of people who learned to read the sky before they read a book.
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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