Glockenspiel Word Search
This Glockenspiel word search hides 12 words on a 15×15 grid — its parts, its materials, and how it is played. Trace each one with a finger or mouse and it locks in as soon as the whole word is covered. No signup, no download.
Words to find: BARS, KEYS, MALLOT, MALLETS, BEATERS, STRIKERS, RESONATOR, FRAME, STEEL, BRASS, ALUMINUM, ALLOY.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Glockenspiel word list, defined
- BARS /bɑːrz/ · noun (plural); verb (third-person singular)
- The plural of 'bar': long rigid pieces of metal, wood, or other material, or establishments serving drinks. As a verb form, third-person singular of 'bar', meaning to fasten with a bar or to prohibit. Related: rods, pubs, taverns, inns.
- KEYS /kiːz/ · noun, verb
- A key is a small object used to operate a lock. To key something means to make it suitable for a particular purpose. Related: key, access, unlock, open.
- MALLETS /mælɪts/ · noun
- A large hammer used for pounding or crushing, typically having a flat face and a handle. Related: hammer, club, sledge, maul.
- BEATERS /ˈbiːtərz/ · noun (plural)
- Plural of 'beater': people or things that strike or beat something, especially helpers who drive game toward hunters during a shoot, or implements used for mixing or cleaning by striking. Related: pounders, whisks, strikers.
- STRIKERS /strɪkərz/ · noun
- A person who plays the position of striker in a team sport, especially football or hockey. A person who strikes, such as a miner or a worker in a factory. Related: forward, attacker, goal-scorer, striker.
- RESONATOR /ˈrɛzənɪˌteɪtər/ · noun
- A device that produces or enhances resonance, or a person or thing that resonates. Related: resonator, resonance, amplifier, oscillator.
- FRAME /freɪm/ · noun, verb
- A rigid structure that surrounds or supports something, such as a picture, window, or building. As a verb, to frame means to construct or compose something within defined limits, or, in criminal contexts, to deliberately incriminate an innocent person by fabricating evidence. Related: structure, framework, border, skeleton.
- STEEL /ˈstiːl/ · noun
- A hard, silver-white, ductile, and malleable alloy of iron and carbon, widely used for making tools, machinery, and building materials. Related: iron, metal, alloy, steel alloy.
- BRASS /bræs/ · noun
- A yellow alloy of copper and zinc, used widely for ornaments, instruments, fittings, and hardware; also, in informal British usage, money or cash. Related: bronze, copper, metal.
- ALUMINUM /əˈluːmɪnəm/ · noun
- A lightweight, silvery-white metallic element (symbol Al, atomic number 13) that is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust and is widely used in aircraft construction, packaging, cookware, and electrical transmission.
- ALLOY /ˈælɔɪ/ · noun
- A metal made by combining two or more metallic elements, or a metal and a nonmetal, to give greater strength or resistance to corrosion. As a verb, to alloy means to mix or blend metals in this way. Related: mixture, blend, compound, fusion.
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