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Computer Word Search

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LNNHBROWSERHSMC

ASTESKIIPCURSOR

PRINTERNANIXRUA

TBECOYUKSTRNASD

OYGRRBBDSSOEREA

PRILAOHWWIMBCSE

ICAIGAGWODSBAPZ

WTYBERDERNSMIHP

NILELDOBDMOENNE

WBDTAFWSGOFMTGO

EAHJNONILNTOEFT

IAHMXLLTVIWRREW

KRSOLDOEOTAYNUO

NDSLNEASJORPEZL

RWTHARDWAREGTME

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MonitorMONITOR
KeyboardKEYBOARD
MouseMOUSE
PrinterPRINTER
LaptopLAPTOP
HardwareHARDWARE
MemoryMEMORY
StorageSTORAGE
FolderFOLDER
CursorCURSOR
PasswordPASSWORD
InternetINTERNET
BrowserBROWSER
WebsiteWEBSITE
DownloadDOWNLOAD
SoftwareSOFTWARE

16 of 24 words from the Computer Terms list.

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Answer key: Computer Word Search

LNNHBROWSERHSMC

ASTESKIIPCURSOR

PRINTERNANIXRUA

TBECOYUKSTRNASD

OYGRRBBDSSOEREA

PRILAOHWWIMBCSE

ICAIGAGWODSBAPZ

WTYBERDERNSMIHP

NILELDOBDMOENNE

WBDTAFWSGOFMTGO

EAHJNONILNTOEFT

IAHMXLLTVIWRREW

KRSOLDOEOTAYNUO

NDSLNEASJORPEZL

RWTHARDWAREGTME

MONITOR, KEYBOARD, MOUSE, PRINTER, LAPTOP, HARDWARE, MEMORY, STORAGE, FOLDER, CURSOR, PASSWORD, INTERNET, BROWSER, WEBSITE, DOWNLOAD, SOFTWARE

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Computer Parts 27

Battery It stores power so a laptop can run away from the wall.
Cable A covered bundle of wires that joins two machines.
Charger It fills a battery back up from the wall.
Computer A machine that follows stored instructions. In the 1600s the word meant a person who did sums.
Cord The long covered wire that brings power from the wall.
Flash drive A finger-sized stick that stores files and pushes into a port.
Hardware All the parts of a computer that you can touch.
Headphones You wear them over your ears so that only you hear the sound.
Input What goes into the machine. A keyboard and a mouse send it.
Keyboard The board of letters, numbers and symbols that you type on.
Laptop A folding computer you can carry, with the screen and the keys in one piece.
Microphone It picks up your voice so the machine can record it or send it.
Monitor The screen that shows you the picture. It is an output part.
Mouse You slide it on the desk to move the pointer. It was named for its shape and its tail of cord.

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Computer Parts, continued

Output What comes back to you: a picture, a sound or a printed page.
Peripheral Anything attached to a computer that is not part of it, such as a printer or a scanner.
Plug The end of a power wire, with metal pins that push into the wall.
Port A shaped opening on the side or back where a cable pushes in.
Printer It puts your work on paper.
Projector It throws the picture onto a wall so the whole class can see it.
Scanner It turns a paper page into a picture file.
Screen The flat glass front where words and pictures show up.
Speaker Sound comes out of it.
Stylus A pen with no ink, for writing or drawing on a touch screen.
Touchpad The flat pad below a laptop's keys. Slide a finger on it to move the pointer.
Tower The tall box of a desk computer. The working parts are inside it.
Webcam A small camera that sends live video from your desk.

Inside the Computer 23

Bus The set of paths that carries data from one part to another.
Cache A small, very fast memory that keeps often-used data close to the processor.
Case The outer box that holds and protects the parts inside.
Chip A tiny flat piece of silicon packed with electronic circuits.
Core One working unit inside a processor. Most processors now have several.
CPU Short for central processing unit, the main chip that carries out instructions.
Fan It spins to push hot air out of the case.
Firmware Software kept on a chip inside a machine, ready the moment it is switched on.
Gigabyte A size of storage: about a billion bytes.
Graphics card The part that draws the picture for the monitor.
Hard drive The part inside that keeps your files when the power is off.
Heat sink A block of metal fins that carries heat away from a hot chip.
Memory Where the machine holds what it is working on right now.
Motherboard The main board. Every other part connects to it.
Power supply The box in the case that turns wall power into the low power the parts need.
Processor The chip that does the work, often called the brain of the computer.
RAM Fast working memory. It empties when the power goes off.
Silicon The element most chips are made from, the second most common in Earth's crust.
Slot A long narrow opening on the main board where an extra card pushes in.
Socket The holder on the main board that the processor sits in, so it can be swapped.
Sound card The part that turns data into sound for the speakers.
Storage Where files stay saved, even with the power off.
Transistor A tiny electronic switch. A modern chip can hold many billions of them.

Keyboard and Typing 21

Arrow One of four keys that move the cursor up, down, left or right.
Backspace It rubs out the letter just before the cursor.
Capital The big form of a letter, used to start a sentence or a name.
Caps lock Press it once and every letter comes out as a capital until you press it again.
Control The key marked Ctrl. Alone it does nothing; held with another key it gives a command.
Delete It removes the letter just after the cursor.
Enter Press it to start a new line or to say you have finished typing.
Escape The key marked Esc. It means stop, or let me out of this box.
Home row The middle line of letters where your fingers rest: A S D F and J K L.
Key One of the buttons you press to type a letter, a number or a symbol.
Layout The way the keys are arranged on the board.
Lowercase Small letters. Printers once kept them in the tray below the capitals.
Punctuation Marks such as periods, commas and question marks.
QWERTY The usual way the letters are laid out, named for the first six in the top line.
Shift Hold it down and press a letter to get a capital.
Shortcut Two or three keys pressed together to do a job fast, with no menu.
Space bar The longest key, in the bottom line. It puts the gap between words.
Symbol A mark that is not a letter or a number, such as @, # or &.
Tab It jumps the cursor along the line to the next stop.
Typing Pressing keys to put words on the screen.
Uppercase Capital letters. Printers once kept them in the higher of two trays of metal type.

Using a Computer 36

Click One quick press of a mouse button.
Clipboard The unseen holding place for whatever you last cut or copied.
Copy Make a second one of what you picked, leaving the first in place.
Cursor The blinking line that shows where your next letter will go.
Cut Take out what you picked so you can put it somewhere else.
Desktop The main screen you see after you log in, where icons and windows sit.
Dialog box A small window that gives you a message or asks you to choose.
Drag Hold the mouse button down and slide to move something.
Drop Let go of the mouse button so the thing you moved stays there.
File One saved piece of work, such as a picture, a story or a song.
Folder A named holder that keeps files together.
Icon A small picture you click to open something.
Login Typing your name and secret word to get into a computer or a site.
Maximize Make a window fill the whole screen.
Menu A list of choices that opens when you click its name.
Minimize Shrink a window out of the way without closing it.
Mute Turn the sound off.
Password A secret string of letters, numbers and symbols that proves it is you.
Paste Put in what you copied. The name comes from gluing strips of paper onto a new page.
Pointer The small arrow that moves when you move the mouse.
Print Send your work to paper.
Redo Bring back the step you just took back.
Restart Turn the machine off and straight back on.
Save Store your work so it is still there tomorrow.
Screenshot A picture of exactly what is showing on your monitor right now.
Scroll Move the page up or down to see the rest of it.
Select Pick the words or the picture that your next command will change.
Sleep A low-power rest. Your work stays open and comes back without a fresh start.
Taskbar The strip of buttons that shows which apps are open, so you can switch between them.
Thumbnail A tiny version of a picture or page, shown so you can pick the right file.
Toolbar A line of small picture buttons for the jobs you do most.
Trash Where deleted files wait. They can be put back until you empty it.
Undo Take back the last thing you did.
Username The name a computer or site knows you by. It goes with a password.
Wallpaper The picture that sits behind your icons.
Window A framed box on the screen that shows one app or one file.

Documents and Slides 30

Align Line words up along the left, the right or the middle.
Bold Thick, dark letters that stand out.
Bullet The dot that starts each item in a list.
Cell One box in a grid. Its name is its letter and its number, such as B2.
Center Set a line the same distance from both sides of the page.
Character Any one letter, number, space or symbol that you type.
Column A line of boxes running up and down. Letters name them: A, B, C.
Document A file made mostly of words, such as a letter or a report.
Font A full set of letters in one style. Change it and every word looks different.
Footer Words that repeat along the bottom of every page, such as the page number.
Format Change how words look: their size, color, style and spacing.
Formula A sum typed into a grid box. It starts with an equals sign: =5*3 shows 15.
Header Words that repeat along the top of every page.
Heading A short line in bigger letters that says what the next part is about.
Highlight Put a band of color behind words to make them stand out.
Indent Start a line a little way in from the edge.
Italic Letters that lean to the right. The style was first printed in Venice in 1500.
Landscape A page turned sideways, so it is wider than it is tall.
Margin The empty edge around the words on a page.
Paragraph A block of sentences about one idea. Press Enter to start a new one.
Portrait A page stood upright, so it is taller than it is wide.
Presentation A set of slides you show while you talk to a group.
Slide One screen of a talk you show to the class.
Spell checker The tool that marks words it thinks you have typed wrong.
Spreadsheet An app with a grid of cells for numbers, lists and sums.
Table Boxes set out in lines across and down, so facts line up neatly.
Template A ready-made file with the design done, so you only fill in your own words.
Text The words in a file, as opposed to the pictures.
Underline A line drawn beneath a word.
Word processor An app for writing, changing and printing pages of words.

Internet and Email 31

Address The line at the top of a browser that says where a page lives.
Attachment A file that rides along with a message, such as a photo or a report.
Bandwidth How much data a line can carry in a set time.
Bookmark A saved shortcut to a page you want to find again.
Broadband A fast internet line that carries a lot of data at once.
Browser The app you use to visit sites and read their pages.
Cloud Storage on faraway servers that you reach over the internet.
Cookie A small block of data that a site stores in your browser to remember you.
Domain The name of a site inside its address, such as example.org.
Download Bring a file from a site or server down to your own machine.
Email A message sent over a network from one inbox to another.
Home page The front door of a site, or the first thing your browser opens.
Hotspot A place where you can join the internet without a wire.
Inbox The folder where new messages arrive.
Internet The worldwide system of networks that links computers together.
Keyword A word you type into a search box to find pages about it.
Link Words or a picture you click to jump to another page.
Modem The box that joins a building to the internet line. Its name blends modulator and demodulator.
Network Computers joined together so they can share files and printers.
Offline Not connected to a network or to the internet.
Online Connected to a network or to the internet.
Pop-up A window that opens by itself on top of the page you were reading.
Refresh Load a page again so it shows the newest version.
Router The box that passes data between the computers in a building and the internet.
Search Type a few words to find pages about them.
Server A computer that hands out files, pages or messages to other computers.
Upload Send a file from your own machine up to a site or server.
URL Short for uniform resource locator: the full address of a page on the World Wide Web.
Web page One document on the World Wide Web, with an address of its own.
Website A set of linked pages kept together under one name.
Wiki A site that its readers can edit together. The name is a Hawaiian word meaning quick.

Software and Apps 20

App A piece of software made for one kind of job, such as drawing or writing.
Boot Start a computer up. The term has been used since the 1950s.
Compatible Able to work together, like an app made for your kind of machine.
Crash When an app or the whole machine suddenly stops working.
Driver Software that lets a computer talk to one piece of hardware, such as a printer.
Error A message that says something went wrong.
Freeze When the screen stops answering your clicks and keys.
Install Put new software on a machine and get it ready to use.
Interface The screens, menus and buttons you use to work with an app.
Launch Start an app.
Load Bring an app or a file into memory so it is ready to use.
Multimedia Words, sound, pictures and video used together.
Notification A short message that appears to tell you something has happened.
Plug-in A small add-on that gives an app a new ability.
Quit Close an app all the way.
Software The instructions that tell the hardware what to do. You cannot touch it.
Sync Make the files on two machines match.
Troubleshoot Hunt for the cause of a problem, one step at a time, and fix it.
Tutorial A step-by-step lesson that shows you how to use an app.
Update A newer release that fixes problems or adds something.

How this list was compiled: 188 computer vocabulary words chosen and defined for this site, in seven themed lists plus a key terms list, an easy list and a hard list. No company, product, operating system or trademarked connector name is on the list. Programming words are left to the computer science word search, gadgets and robots to the technology word search. Every spelling was checked in the American Heritage Dictionary, https://www.ahdictionary.com/, on 2026-09-19, and the facts in the meanings were checked the same day in English Wikipedia, starting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_computer_hardware_terms and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_hardware. Meanings are our own wording for pupils. Licence: own work

How it works

Ten lists take this computer word search from the parts on the desk, through the keyboard and the files on screen, to the internet. That makes 188 words, each with a clue. The first puzzle hides 16, such as Keyboard, Cursor and Browser.

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A computer parts word search for the first lab lesson

Under the puzzle, Start from a list has Computer Parts. A class can point at its 27 words, Monitor to Flash drive. Inside the Computer adds 23 that need the case off, such as Motherboard and Heat sink. For kindergarten to grade 2, Easy Computer Words has 58 of 3 to 5 letters, such as Icon and Drag. Under More options, tick Large print.

A typing warm-up from Keyboard and Typing

Pick Keyboard and Typing, then tick Show clues, not words, for a computer terms word search. Pupils read "It rubs out the letter just before the cursor" and find Backspace. "The middle line of letters where your fingers rest" is Home row. Print or save as PDF adds the answer key.

Flash drive and 15 more two-word entries hide as one run: FLASHDRIVE. Word processor needs 13 by 13 or larger.
Some clues carry a fact: Paste is named for gluing strips of paper onto a page, and Italic was first printed in Venice in 1500.
Middle school: pick Hard Computer Words and press Hard. Next, print the computer science word search for coding terms.

Questions and answers

Can pupils solve it on the lab computers?

Yes. Open this page on each machine, and every pupil starts on the same grid. Dragging from a word's first letter to its last is mouse practice.

Why is there no brand or product name on the list?

So the sheet fits whatever machines the lab has. The 188 words name parts, keys, actions and kinds of app, such as Browser and Spreadsheet. None names a company, product or operating system. Type your lab's own names at the end of the word list under the grid.

How were the spellings and meanings checked?

Every spelling was looked up in the American Heritage Dictionary in September 2026. Two-word terms follow its form: Space bar, Hard drive, Web page. Clue facts, such as QWERTY naming the top line's first six letters, come from Wikipedia, read the same day.

All 188 words

Computer Parts 27

Computer Parts, continued

Inside the Computer 23

Keyboard and Typing 21

Using a Computer 36

Documents and Slides 30

Internet and Email 31

Software and Apps 20

How it works

A computer parts word search for the first lab lesson

A typing warm-up from Keyboard and Typing

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