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Continents Word Search

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Continents word search puzzles with the seven continents and related geography English for adults. Easy to hard plus large print. No timer, no account.

Continents puzzles

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Continents: Seven Lands

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Continents: Quiet Equator

Easy · 10×10 · 10 words

Continents: Calm Desk

Hard · 15×15 · 18 words

Hard Continents: Full Earth

Large print · 9×9 · 8 words

Large Print Continents: Soft Map

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Continents: Hemisphere

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Continents: World Outline

Medium · 12×12 · 14 words

Continents: Border Path

What words are in the continents word search?

The seven continents plus related geography English.

The full continents word bank has 48 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:

AFRICA · AMERICA · ANTARCTIC · ANTARCTICA · ARCTIC · ASIA · ATLAS · AUSTRALIA · BORDER · CLIMATE · COAST · CONTINENT · COUNTRY · DESERT · EARTH · EAST · EQUATOR · EUROPE · FOREST · GLOBE · HEMISPHERE · ISLAND · JUNGLE · LAKE · LANDMASS · MAP · MOUNTAIN · NATION · NORTH · OCEAN · OCEANIA · PENINSULA · PLAIN · PLANET · PLATEAU · POLE · REEF · REGION · RIVER · SAVANNA · SEA · SHORE · SOUTH · TROPIC · TUNDRA · WEST · WORLD · ZONE

Who is this theme good for?

A map-minded evergreen for adults and seniors.

A solving tip

Long words like ANTARCTICA and HEMISPHERE anchor harder grids.

How these puzzles work

Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.

Sources & notes

Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.

“chiefly British spelling of color”

— Merriam-Webster

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