Rain Word Search
Rain falls when cloud droplets join together until they are heavy enough to drop. The same water cycles between ocean, air and land again and again, and the words for that journey are here.
Rain word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- boots
- cloud
- drizzle
- drop
- puddle
- rainbow
- shower
- splash
- umbrella
- wet
Rain word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- boots
- cloud
- downpour
- drizzle
- drop
- flood
- gutter
- monsoon
- puddle
- rainbow
- shower
- soaked
- splash
- umbrella
- wet
Rain word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- boots
- cloud
- damp
- downpour
- drizzle
- drop
- evaporate
- flood
- forecast
- gutter
- monsoon
- patter
- puddle
- rainbow
- rainfall
- shower
- soaked
- splash
- umbrella
- wet
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Words in the Rain word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- drop
- A single small round bit of falling water
- cloud
- Floating mass of droplets that rain comes from
- puddle
- Small pool of rainwater sitting on the ground
- wet
- Covered or soaked with water
- umbrella
- Folding canopy on a stick that keeps rain off
- splash
- Sound and spray made when water hits a surface
- boots
- Rubber footwear that keeps feet dry outdoors
- shower
- Short spell of rain that starts and stops
- drizzle
- Very fine, light rain that falls slowly
- rainbow
- Arc of color made when sun shines through raindrops
- downpour
- Heavy rain falling all at once
- gutter
- Channel at a roof edge that carries rain away
- flood
- Overflow of water onto normally dry land
- soaked
- Thoroughly wet all the way through
- monsoon
- Seasonal wind shift that brings months of heavy rain
- patter
- Light tapping sound of rain on a roof or window
- forecast
- Prediction of how much rain is coming
- rainfall
- The measured amount of rain over a period of time
- damp
- Slightly wet, not yet dripping
- evaporate
- To turn from liquid water into vapor in the air
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