Wieliczka Salt Mine Word Search
A free Wieliczka Salt Mine word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on its architecture, its landscape, and the people who built it, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Words to find: CHAPEL, GALLERY, CHAMBER, CAVERN, SHAFT, STAIRS, PILLAR, ALTAR, MOSAIC, SCULPTURE, LANTERN, CANDLE.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Wieliczka Salt Mine word list, defined
- CHAPEL /ˈtʃæpəl/ · noun
- A chapel is a small building or room used for Christian worship, typically one that is separate from a main church or attached to a larger institution such as a school, hospital, prison, or private residence. It also denotes a place of worship belonging to a Nonconformist denomination such as Methodists or Baptists, especially in British usage. Related: church, sanctuary, shrine, oratory.
- GALLERY /ˈɡæləri/ · noun
- A room or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art; also a raised seating area in a theatre, or (in architecture) a long covered passage or balcony. Related: museum, exhibition hall, showroom.
- CHAMBER /ˈtʃeɪm.bər/ · noun
- A room, especially a bedroom or a private room; also an official room used by a legislative body, judge, or council, or a closed compartment in a machine or organ of the body. Related: room, compartment, hall, chamber (legislative).
- CAVERN /ˈkævərn/ · noun
- A large, deep cave, or a spacious chamber within a cave; more broadly, any vast, cavernous enclosed space resembling one. Related: grotto, cave, chamber, hollow.
- SHAFT /ʃæft/ · noun, verb
- A long, thin, cylindrical structure, especially one made of wood or metal, used to transmit power or motion. To strike or hit someone or something with a forceful blow. Related: pole, rod, axis, spindle.
- STAIRS /steɪrz/ · noun
- A set of steps leading from one floor to another, typically in a building. A series of steps, often in a staircase. Related: steps, staircase, flight, escalator.
- PILLAR /ˈpɪlər/ · noun
- A large vertical column or post, typically made of stone, brick, or concrete, used as a support for a building or structure. A person or thing that provides support or stability. Related: column, post, support, stay.
- ALTAR /ˈɔːltər/ · noun
- A raised structure or table on which sacrifices, offerings, or religious rites are performed, typically in a place of worship. Related: communion table, sacrificial stone, shrine, sanctuary.
- MOSAIC /məˈsæɪɪk/ · noun, verb
- A picture or design made from small, usually colored, squares of material, such as tiles or glass. To decorate or create something by arranging small pieces of material in a pattern. Related: mosaicism, tessellation, pattern, design.
- SCULPTURE /skʌltʃər/ · noun
- A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping or combining hard materials such as stone, wood, or metal, or by casting or welding. Related: statue, monument, carving, model.
- LANTERN /ˈlæntərn/ · noun
- A container with a light source inside, typically made of paper, metal, or plastic, and often used for decoration or as a source of light in the dark. Related: candle, lamp, light, torch.
- CANDLE /ˈkændəl/ · noun
- A cylinder or block of wax with a central wick that is burned to give light; also, a unit of luminous intensity (the candela, formerly called the candle). Related: taper, wax light, lamp, lantern.
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