Typee Word Search
A free Typee by Herman Melville (1846) word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on characters, settings, and objects from the book, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Written by Herman Melville · First published 1846 · Adventure.
Words to find: TYPEE, TOMMO, MARA, KAHUNA, POLYNESIA, SAMOA, NATIVE, WHALE, SEAFARING, CANNIBAL, JUNIPER, MIRROR.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Typee word list, defined
- MARA /ˈmɑːrə/ · noun
- A sea crab of a kind found in the shallow waters of the northern Atlantic, especially the edible crab. Related: spider crab.
- KAHUNA /kəˈhuːnə/ · noun
- An expert or acknowledged master in a particular field. In informal Hawaiian and surfing usage, it can also refer to a person regarded as an authority or someone important in charge. Related: expert, master, authority, virtuoso.
- NATIVE /ˈneɪ.tɪv/ · adjective; noun
- As an adjective, native means originating in, belonging to, or characteristic of a particular place, people, or environment; it can also mean inherent or acquired from birth rather than learned. As a noun, native means a person born in a particular place, especially an original inhabitant, or a person who speaks a particular language from birth. Related: indigenous, aboriginal, original, local.
- WHALE /weɪl/ · noun, verb
- A whale is a large marine mammal belonging to the cetacean group, including species such as the blue, humpback, sperm, and killer whales. As a verb, whale means to strike or beat someone or something forcefully, especially in informal North American usage. Related: cetacean, leviathan, sea giant.
- SEAFARING /ˈsiːfərɪŋ/ · adjective & noun
- Relating to or engaged in sailing or travelling on the sea. As a noun, it means the activity or business of sailing, especially over long distances. Related: nautical, maritime, marine.
- CANNIBAL /ˈkæn.ɪ.bəl/ · noun
- A person who eats the flesh of other human beings; more broadly, an animal that feeds on the flesh of its own species. Related: man-eater, anthropophagite, flesh-eater, omnivore.
- JUNIPER /ˈdʒuːnɪpər/ (British); /ˈdʒuːnɪpɚ/ (American) · noun
- An evergreen tree or shrub of the cypress family, bearing aromatic, berry-like seed cones. The word can also refer to these cones, especially when used as a flavoring or in the production of gin. Related: juniper tree, juniper berry.
- MIRROR /ˈmɪrə(r)/ · noun and verb
- A mirror is a surface that produces a reflection of the object or person in front of it. As a verb, to mirror means to represent, correspond to, or imitate something closely. Related: reflection, looking glass, reflect, reproduce.
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