Pizza Word Search
Pizza in its modern form grew up in Naples, where bakers topped flatbread with tomato and cheese. Toppings, crust parts and kitchen terms followed, and they account for most of this list.
Pizza word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- cheese
- crust
- dough
- mushroom
- olives
- onion
- oven
- pepperoni
- sauce
- slice
Pizza word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- basil
- cheese
- crust
- dough
- mushroom
- olives
- onion
- oregano
- oven
- pepperoni
- peppers
- pineapple
- sauce
- sausage
- slice
Pizza word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- basil
- cheese
- crust
- deep dish
- dough
- mozzarella
- mushroom
- olives
- onion
- oregano
- oven
- pepperoni
- peppers
- pineapple
- sauce
- sausage
- slice
- thin crust
- tomato
- toppings
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Words in the Pizza word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- cheese
- The melted layer that covers most of the pizza
- crust
- The baked dough edge and base holding everything up
- sauce
- The cooked tomato layer spread under the cheese
- pepperoni
- A spicy cured sausage sliced thin for topping
- slice
- One wedge cut from a round pizza
- oven
- The hot chamber that bakes pizza quickly
- dough
- Flour, water and yeast mixed and stretched into a base
- mushroom
- An earthy topping sliced and scattered over cheese
- olives
- Small salty fruits, usually sliced into rings
- onion
- A sharp vegetable that turns sweet as it bakes
- sausage
- Seasoned ground meat dropped on in small pieces
- peppers
- Sweet or hot pods sliced into strips or rings
- pineapple
- A sweet tropical fruit used on Hawaiian style pizza
- basil
- A green herb whose leaves go on after baking
- oregano
- A dried herb stirred into many pizza sauces
- mozzarella
- The soft stretchy cheese most used on pizza
- tomato
- The fruit behind the sauce, or sliced on fresh
- deep dish
- A thick pizza baked in a tall sided pan
- thin crust
- A base rolled out thin so it bakes crisp
- toppings
- Everything added on top of the sauce and cheese
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