July Word Search Puzzles

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July Word Search

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CanadaCANADA
MapleMAPLE
FireworksFIREWORKS
ParisPARIS
ChessCHESS
ApolloAPOLLO
MoonMOON
ArmstrongARMSTRONG
CaesarCAESAR
RubyRUBY
LarkspurLARKSPUR
LilyLILY
CampCAMP
RodeoRODEO
TennisTENNIS
BreadBREAD

16 of 24 words from the July Favorites list.

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HPZNYADPADEYVLC

YCHROLHNHILCOIA

CRODNXDPNXBILLM

AEAKEDORECRUBYP

NBRCOBLRODEOTYD

AFMAPLEBYHAOEPV

DIOEFAYHFLDINRS

ARMSTRONGHHSNIS

IEEALKHSEKXDIST

MWNRASMGYYPMSGR

ROPNPPUCIBANDGG

FRQWOUAHASRFXIX

TKGDLRPEFNIAEPG

ISPNLSWSYDSKODN

OEGMOONSOAODRPZ

CANADA, MAPLE, FIREWORKS, PARIS, CHESS, APOLLO, MOON, ARMSTRONG, CAESAR, RUBY, LARKSPUR, LILY, CAMP, RODEO, TENNIS, BREAD

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July Days 19

Bamboo A fast-growing member of the grass family. On July 7 in Japan, paper wishes are hung on it.
Bastille A fortress-prison in Paris, stormed on July 14, 1789. The French national day recalls it.
Canada This country's national day is July 1, marking the union of three colonies in 1867.
Chess A board game of kings and pawns. Its International Day is July 20.
Chocolate A food made from roasted, ground cocoa beans. Its World Day is July 7.
Dominion Until 1982 the July 1 holiday was named for this word, which described the new country of 1867.
Emoji A tiny picture used in messages. Its World Day is July 17, the date shown on a calendar symbol.
Fireworks Bright bursts in the evening sky that close the July 4 holiday and the July 14 one in France.
Fourth The date in July of Independence Day, a federal holiday in the United States.
Friendship The United Nations set July 30 as the International Day of this bond between people.
Mandela Nelson, born July 18, 1918. The United Nations made his birthday an international day.

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July Days, continued

Maple A red 11-pointed leaf of this tree sits in the middle of the flag waved on July 1.
Ottawa The capital city where July 1 concerts are held on Parliament Hill.
Paris A military parade has marched through this capital on almost every July 14 since 1880.
Tanabata Japan's Star Festival on July 7, when wishes are written on strips of paper.
Tiger The big striped cat with an International Day of its own on July 29, begun in 2010.
Tricolor A flag of three bands, like the blue, white and red flag of France, seen everywhere on July 14.
Vanilla A flavor from the seed pods of an orchid. July is National Ice Cream Month in the U.S.
Waffle A crisp cone pressed with a grid pattern. National Ice Cream Day is the third Sunday of July.

July Moon Landing 15

Apollo The U.S. space program that put the first people on the lunar surface in July 1969.
Armstrong Neil, the mission commander and the first person to step onto the lunar surface.
Collins Michael, the pilot who stayed in orbit in the command module while two crewmates landed.
Columbia The name of the command module that carried the 1969 crew home.
Eleven The number of the mission that landed on July 20, 1969.
Giant The missing word in Neil Armstrong's line as he stepped onto the Moon: one small step, one ___ leap.
Houston The Texas city where the crew finished their 21 days apart, inside a special laboratory.
Kennedy The space center in Florida where the 1969 mission was launched.
Liftoff The moment a rocket leaves the pad. For the 1969 mission it came on July 16 in Florida.
Lunar Having to do with the Moon, as in the ___ module named Eagle.
Moon Earth's natural satellite, where people first walked on July 20, 1969.
Quarantine Time spent apart in case of germs. The returning crew spent 21 days in it.
Saturn The V rocket that launched the crew on July 16, 1969, shares its name with this ringed planet.
Splashdown A landing in the sea. The crew came down in the Pacific on July 24, 1969.
Tranquility The Sea of ___ is the lunar plain where Eagle set down. The word means calm.

July Calendar 14

Aphelion The point in Earth's orbit farthest from the Sun, reached in early July.
Australia A Southern Hemisphere country, where July is the second month of winter.
Caesar Julius, the Roman leader born in this month, for whom it was named.
Carnelian A brownish-red stone on the 2013 UK birthstone list for July. Romans cut it into seal rings.
Chromium The metal element that turns the July birthstone red.
Corundum The very hard mineral that the July birthstone is made of. Its other gem colors are sapphires.
Delphinium The Latin name of a July birth flower, from the Greek for dolphin, after the shape of the bloom.
Fifth The meaning of Quintilis, the month's old name, from when the Roman year began in March.
Julian The calendar of 365 days with a leap day every four years. It took effect in 45 BC.
July The seventh month, 31 days long, named by the Roman Senate in 44 BC.
Larkspur A July birth flower with a pointed tail behind each bloom. Every part of the plant is toxic.
Lily The water ___ is a July birth flower, rooted under water with leaves that float on top.
Midyear The halfway point of the calendar. In a common year it falls at noon on July 2.
Ruby The red July birthstone. Its name comes from ruber, the Latin word for red.

Outdoors in July 16

Archery The sport of shooting arrows at a target with a bow.
Bunk One of two beds stacked in a cabin.
Camp A summer place of cabins, canoes and crafts where children stay for a week or more.
Cannonball A pool jump with the knees hugged to the chest, made for the biggest splash.
Counselor The older helper who looks after one cabin of children for the week.
Dock A wooden platform over a lake, for tying up boats or jumping in.
Fair A county or state event with rides, farm animals and prize ribbons.
Fan Spinning blades that push air across a hot room.
Goggles Tight eyewear that keeps pool water out.
Lanyard A cord worn around the neck, often braided from plastic lace in the craft cabin.
Pond A small, still body of fresh water where lily pads float.
Reunion A gathering that brings a whole family back together, often around a July picnic table.
Rodeo A contest of riding and roping. Calgary, Alberta, holds a ten-day one in July.
Swelter To feel far too hot. July is the hottest month across most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Tennis A racket sport. Its oldest tournament, on grass in London since 1877, runs from late June into July.
Thunder The boom made when lightning heats the air. Count the seconds to it and divide by 5 for miles.

July in History 15

Bread Sold sliced by machine for the first time on July 7, 1928, in Chillicothe, Missouri.
Civil The ___ Rights Act, signed on July 2, 1964, was meant to end segregation in public places.
Earhart Amelia, born July 24, 1897, the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone and nonstop.
Gettysburg The Pennsylvania town where a three-day battle was fought on July 1 to 3, 1863.
Hieroglyphs Egyptian picture writing, first read with help from a stone found in July 1799.
Inca The people who built Machu Picchu in Peru. A local man led an explorer up to it on July 24, 1911.
Mallard The blue locomotive that set the steam speed record of 126 mph on July 3, 1938. Also a wild duck.
Pathfinder The Mars lander that bounced down on airbags on July 4, 1997, carrying a small rover.
Pluto The dwarf planet that a spacecraft flew past for the first time on July 14, 2015.
Rosetta The Stone found in Egypt in July 1799 that carries one text in three scripts.
Seneca ___ Falls, New York, held the first women's rights convention on July 19 and 20, 1848.
Sheep Dolly, born July 5, 1996, in Scotland, was one: the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Telstar The satellite launched on July 10, 1962, that relayed the first live television across the Atlantic.
Vaccine A shot that trains the body to fight a disease. The first rabies one was given on July 6, 1885.
Zeppelin The rigid airship that first flew on July 2, 1900, from a floating hangar on Lake Constance.

How this list was compiled: 79 July words with plain meanings written for this site: the month's observances, the 1969 Moon landing, the July calendar, the outdoors in July 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/July, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthstone, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_%28United_States%29, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29. Two clues were corrected on 2026-09-20 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day_military_parade and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11. Licence: own work

How it works

These July word search puzzles follow the month: Canada Day, fireworks on the 4th, a Paris parade on the 14th, the Moon landing on the 20th. They open on 16 of 79 words, Maple, Armstrong and Ruby across and down.

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A list of its own for July 20

Under Start from a list, July Moon Landing holds 15 words and prints as July Moon Landing Word Search. July Days holds 19, from Dominion for the 1st to Tiger for the 29th. Press Add another until the list holds 20 and either list goes in whole.

Settings for summer school and camp

For a July word search printable that suits new readers, pick Easy July: 24 words of 3 to 5 letters, Fan, Pond and Bunk among them, best in Large print (under More options). Hieroglyphs is one of 25 Hard July words: press Hard, and it may run backwards.

In July Moon Landing, tick Show clues, not words: the clue ending "one small step, one ___ leap" hides Giant.
Thunder's clue is a science lesson: count the seconds after lightning and divide by 5 for miles.

Questions and answers

What words are in the July word search?

There are 79, in 5 themed lists. July Days runs from Canada on the 1st to Friendship on the 30th. July Moon Landing covers the 1969 flight, July Calendar has Caesar and Ruby, and July in History from Gettysburg in 1863 to Pluto in 2015.

Why is July called July?

The Roman Senate renamed it in 44 BC for Julius Caesar, who was born in the month. Before that it was Quintilis, the fifth month of a year that began in March. July, Caesar, Fifth and Julian, his calendar, are all July Calendar words.

When did people first land on the Moon?

On July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lifted off from Florida on July 16, Neil Armstrong stepped out first while Michael Collins stayed in orbit, and the crew splashed down in the Pacific on July 24. July Moon Landing tells it in 15 words.

All 79 words

July Days 19

July Days, continued

July Moon Landing 15

July Calendar 14

Outdoors in July 16

July in History 15

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A list of its own for July 20

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