August Word Search Printable

Meteors, dog days and Hawaii, 60 words. Press New puzzle for 16, then Print or save as PDF.

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August Word Search

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SPUTSCRNSASERIC

LNHAWAIIUNKLAOD

EBSNNTTMNAFELBW

FCDMOWAWFYWPFCT

TNNTIOAVLCAHRPH

CPWPKNEYOTTAILV

PLCEDEKSWOENEEC

HURRICANEARTNVO

ATDINLKEREMCDOM

LOSDAIGALNEJSTE

DSAOMPQKRCLCHET

OIBTESGESEOIIFO

EUCYAEGRAINNPIR

DALARMBSWORDXWP

HBABIPARLLDLMRT

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WatermelonWATERMELON
CatCAT
ElephantELEPHANT
LeftLEFT
VoteVOTE
FriendshipFRIENDSHIP
SneakersSNEAKERS
AlarmALARM
PeridotPERIDOT
SwordSWORD
CometCOMET
HurricaneHURRICANE
SunflowerSUNFLOWER
HawaiiHAWAII
PlutoPLUTO
EclipseECLIPSE

16 of 24 words from the August Favorites list.

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Answer key: August Word Search

SPUTSCRNSASERIC

LNHAWAIIUNKLAOD

EBSNNTTMNAFELBW

FCDMOWAWFYWPFCT

TNNTIOAVLCAHRPH

CPWPKNEYOTTAILV

PLCEDEKSWOENEEC

HURRICANEARTNVO

ATDINLKEREMCDOM

LOSDAIGALNEJSTE

DSAOMPQKRCLCHET

OIBTESGESEOIIFO

EUCYAEGRAINNPIR

DALARMBSWORDXWP

HBABIPARLLDLMRT

WATERMELON, CAT, ELEPHANT, LEFT, VOTE, FRIENDSHIP, SNEAKERS, ALARM, PERIDOT, SWORD, COMET, HURRICANE, SUNFLOWER, HAWAII, PLUTO, ECLIPSE

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All 60 words

August Days 15

Alarm The wake-up ring of a clock. Many pupils set one again when school starts this month.
Amendment A change to the Constitution. The Nineteenth, on women and the ballot, was adopted in August 1920.
Aviation The flying of aircraft. Its national day is August 19, the birthday of Orville Wright.
Cat A pet that purrs. Its international day is August 8, first kept in 2002.
Elephant A huge gray animal with a trunk and tusks. Its world day, August 12, was first held in 2012.
Equality The same rights for everyone. Women's Day for it is August 26 in the United States.
Friendship What good pals share. Its Day in the United States is the first Sunday of the month.
Indigenous A word for the first peoples of a land. The United Nations keeps a day for them on August 9.
Left The opposite of right. People who write with this hand have had an international day on August 13 since 1976.
Orientation A meeting that shows new students around a school before classes begin.
Sneakers Soft shoes with rubber soles, often bought new before the first day of school.
Vote To mark your choice in an election. An amendment adopted in August 1920 says women cannot be kept from doing it.
Watermelon A big green fruit, red and juicy inside. Its national day in the United States is August 3.
Wright Orville, born August 19, 1871, who built and flew airplanes with his brother Wilbur.
Youth Young people. The United Nations has kept their international day on August 12 since 2000.

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August Calendar 12

Augustus The first Roman emperor. The month got its new name in 8 BC in his honor.
Eighth The place of this month in the year, between seventh and ninth.
Emperor The ruler of an empire. The first Roman one gave this month its name.
February The northern month whose season matches August south of the equator.
Gladiolus A birth flower of the month with tall spikes of blooms. Its name comes from the Latin for a small sword.
Lion The animal of Leo, the zodiac sign that runs until August 22.
Peridot A yellow-green birthstone of the month. Most gems come in many colors. This one is always green.
Sardonyx A birthstone of the month, a stone with bands of red to brown.
Sextilis The old Latin name of the month. It means sixth, because the Roman year once began in March.
Spinel A birthstone added to the month's list in 2016. Its Latin name points to its spiky crystals.
Sword A long blade with a handle. The birth flower of the month takes its name from the Latin word for one.
Virgo The zodiac sign that begins on August 23.

Outdoors in August 15

Bee A buzzing pollinator. The honey kind has a national day in the United States on the third Saturday of the month.
Cicada An insect that buzzes loudly from the trees in summer and early fall.
Comet A ball of ice and dust. Bits left behind by one called Swift-Tuttle make the August shooting stars.
Dog The hot, sticky days of late summer are named for the star of this animal, not for a panting pet.
Fair A gathering with farm animals, exhibits and prize ribbons. Many states hold a big one in late summer or early fall.
Goldenrod A wild plant with plumes of yellow flowers, found in meadows and prairies across North America.
Hurricane A huge spinning ocean storm. The Atlantic season for them builds to its peak from late August.
Monsoon A season of afternoon thunderstorms in the desert Southwest, from June to the middle of September.
Perseids A shower of shooting stars seen from mid-July to late August, busiest between about the 9th and the 14th.
Perseus The constellation that the month's shooting stars seem to stream from.
Seeds What the head of a sunflower is packed with. People and birds both eat them.
Sirius The night sky's brightest star, known as the Dog Star. The hot dog days of summer are named for it.
Sunflower A tall plant with a big yellow head, grown for the snack and the oil it gives.
Thunder The boom that follows lightning. Summer heat builds the storms that make it.
Zucchini A green summer squash, picked while it is still small and soft.

August in History 18

Canal A waterway dug for ships. The one across Panama opened on August 15, 1914.
Curiosity A wish to find things out. NASA gave the name to the car-sized rover that landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.
Dream Martin Luther King Jr. told a crowd at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, that he had one.
Dwarf The kind of planet Pluto has been since astronomers agreed on a new definition in August 2006.
Eclipse The Moon hiding the Sun. A total one crossed the United States from coast to coast on August 21, 2017.
Fiftieth The number of the state that joined the Union on August 21, 1959.
Hawaii The islands that became a state on August 21, 1959, the most recent to join the United States.
King Martin Luther, Jr., who gave a famous speech in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.
Klondike The region of Canada where gold was found on August 16, 1896, setting off a famous rush.
Krakatoa A volcanic island in Indonesia. Its blast of August 27, 1883, is the loudest sound known in history.
Mars The planet where a NASA robot the size of a car landed on August 6, 2012.
Panama The country whose famous waterway between two oceans opened on August 15, 1914.
Park The National Service that looks after places of this kind was created on August 25, 1916.
Pluto In August 2006 astronomers decided that this small, distant world is a dwarf planet.
Rover A wheeled robot explorer. One the size of a car reached another planet on August 6, 2012.
Smithsonian A famous group of museums founded on August 10, 1846, and named for a British scientist.
Voyager NASA launched the second probe of this name on August 20, 1977. No other craft has visited Uranus or Neptune.
Yukon The territory of northwestern Canada where the Klondike gold fields lie.

How this list was compiled: 60 August words with plain meanings written for this site: the month's observances, its calendar and birthstones, the outdoors in August and dated events in history. Every date and name in the clues was checked on 2026-09-19 against English Wikipedia, chiefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthstone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_days, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Admission_Act, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_definition_of_planet and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%28rover%29. Licence: own work

How it works

No federal holiday falls in August, so this August word search printable draws on a meteor shower, the dog days and Hawaii's statehood. The opening grid hides 16 words, Comet, Sneakers and Pluto among them.

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Four themed lists without a holiday

Seven lists wait under Start from a list, below the puzzle, and the sheet takes the name of your pick. August in History is the longest themed list at 18 words: Hawaii and Fiftieth for August 21, 1959, Curiosity, Rover and Mars for August 6, 2012. Outdoors in August runs from Perseids to Zucchini.

A first-week sheet for any grade

August Days ends on Sneakers, Alarm and Orientation, for the first morning back. For the youngest, choose Easy August, 22 words of 3 to 5 letters like Cat, Bee and Yukon, then open More options and tick Large print. Smithsonian is one of 24 Hard August words; with Hard pressed, it can run in any of 8 directions.

Tick Show clues, not words and the class hunts Pluto from "this small, distant world is a dwarf planet".
Backpack, Locker and Homeroom are left to the back to school word search, so the two sheets pair up.

Questions and answers

What is there to celebrate in August?

Small days, not a federal holiday. August Days lists Watermelon for August 3, Cat for the 8th, Elephant for the 12th, Left for left-handers on the 13th and Aviation for the 19th, Orville Wright's birthday, plus Vote and Amendment for August 1920.

Why is the month called August?

It is named for Augustus, the first Roman emperor, in 8 BC. Before that it was Sextilis, Latin for sixth, because the Roman year once began in March. Both names are on the August Calendar list, beside the birthstones Peridot, Spinel and Sardonyx.

When do the Perseid meteors peak?

Between about August 9 and 14; the shower runs from mid-July to late August. The shooting stars are bits left by a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and they seem to stream from the constellation Perseus. All three words are in Outdoors in August.

All 60 words

August Days 15

August Calendar 12

Outdoors in August 15

August in History 18

How it works

Four themed lists without a holiday

A first-week sheet for any grade

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