Compound Words Word Search
This compound words word search holds forty words made of two smaller words: sunflower, rainbow, butterfly, toothbrush, ladybug, grasshopper and lighthouse, plus open compounds such as ice cream and bus stop that keep a space.
A compound word joins two words into one with a new meaning. Closed compounds like notebook and homework are written as one word, open compounds like high school keep the space, and hyphenated compounds such as mother-in-law sit in between. The meaning is not always the sum of the parts: a butterfly is not made of butter, and a ladybug is a beetle, not a true bug at all.
Compounds tend to start apart and close up over time. Baseball was printed as base ball, then base-ball, before it became one word, and today was often written to-day well into the 1900s. Email followed the same path much faster. It began as e-mail, and the Associated Press dropped the hyphen from its stylebook in 2011.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Compound Words has.
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In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
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- Airplane
- Backpack
- Bathtub
- Bedroom
- Blueberry
- Bus Stop
- Butterfly
- Cowboy
- Cupcake
- Daylight
- Doorbell
- Earthquake
- Firefly
- Football
- Goldfish
- Grasshopper
- High School
- Homework
- Ice Cream
- Keyboard
- Ladybug
- Lighthouse
- Living Room
- Mailbox
- Moonlight
- Notebook
- Pancake
- Playground
- Popcorn
- Post Office
- Rainbow
- Raincoat
- Sandbox
- Seashell
- Snowman
- Starfish
- Sunflower
- Teapot
- Toothbrush
- Waterfall