Elephants Word Search
A free Elephants word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on the habitats, species, and behaviors of an animal group, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Words to find: MATRIARCH, CALVES, TRUNK, TUSKS, EARS, FLOP, MUSTH, HERD, SAVANNA, JUNGLE, WATER, BROWSE.
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Elephants word list, defined
- MATRIARCH /ˈmeɪtriɑːk/ · noun
- A woman who is the head of a family or is especially influential within a family group. The term may also refer to a woman regarded as the senior or authoritative member of a wider community. Related: matriarch, family head, matron, mother figure.
- CALVES /kɑːvz/ · noun
- The plural of calf: either young cattle (and other mammals such as whales, elephants, and seals) or the thick muscular back part of the lower leg between the knee and ankle. Related: young, yearlings, sucklings, lower leg.
- TRUNK /trʌŋk/ · noun and verb
- The trunk of a tree is its main woody stem. By extension, trunk can mean a large storage chest, the long nose of an elephant, the main part of a human body, a car's rear luggage compartment, or a major long-distance telephone line. Related: stem, bole, torso, chest.
- TUSKS /tʌsks/ · noun
- Tusks are long, projecting teeth, especially the prominent incisors of elephants or the canine teeth of wild boars and walruses. The word is the plural form of “tusk.” Related: teeth, fangs.
- EARS /ɪərz/ (British), /ɪrz/ (US) · noun
- Ears is the plural of 'ear', referring either to the organ of hearing on each side of the head, or to the seed-bearing head of a cereal plant such as wheat, barley, or corn. Related: auricles, organs of hearing, spikes, heads.
- FLOP /flɒp/ (UK), /flɑːp/ (US) · noun, verb
- To flop is to fall or drop heavily and limply, or (as a noun) to be a complete failure; as a noun it also denotes the failed thing itself, such as a play or product that attracts no success. Related: fail, bomb, dud, fizzle.
- MUSTH /mʌst/ · noun and auxiliary verb
- As a noun, musth names the period of heightened sexual activity and agitation in a male elephant or other large animal. As an auxiliary verb, it is a rare spelling of “must,” expressing obligation or necessity. Related: rut, sexual excitement, oestrus, heat.
- HERD /hɜːd/ (British); /hɝd/ (US) · noun and verb
- As a noun, a herd is a group of animals, especially grazing or herd-forming mammals, living or moving together; it can also refer to a large, undifferentiated group of people. As a verb, it means to gather, drive, or move animals as a group, often with the sense of controlling or directing their movement. Related: group, flock, drove, pack.
- SAVANNA /səˈvænə/ · noun
- A wide, generally treeless grassland, especially one occurring in tropical or subtropical regions. The term may also denote the biome more broadly, including its grasses, scattered trees, and associated wildlife. Related: grassland, plain, prairie, steppe.
- JUNGLE /ˈdʒʌŋɡəl/ · noun
- A dense, tangled area of vegetation, especially one in a tropical or subtropical region. By extension, it can refer to a complicated or confusing situation in which it is difficult to make progress. Related: rainforest, forest, wilderness, thicket.
- WATER /ˈwɔːtə(r)/ · noun, verb
- Water is a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid composed of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. As a countable noun, it can also refer to a body or expanse of water, such as a lake, river, or the sea. Related: liquid, H₂O, aqua, irrigate.
- BROWSE /braʊz/ · verb
- To look casually through or over things, such as goods in a shop, pages of a book, or content on the internet, without a specific goal or with only a vague one. As a noun, it denotes such an act of casual looking or grazing. Related: skim, scan, peruse, rummage.
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