Lab Equipment Word Search

A lab equipment puzzle with its answer key: glassware, measuring tools, burners and stands, physics and microscope benches.

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IOLQSBSTTCEOOEE

WITTYECCTTCTCFI

DDQDRARDYHUETCR

VODNIKUMPESTLEO

MCWINECOBRBNRCI

BNDHGRIROMNAYII

AYCSECBTTONGSMP

MAGNETLATMANSNF

BALANCERYENTNCO

NAASTOPWATCHCTR

SNTONFUNNELNHWC

BURETTELTRAAEIE

ACBATTERYTMHLBP

AOPVHWJKHRPHEOS

DIPTRIPODBOAXSR

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BeakerBEAKER
FunnelFUNNEL
BalanceBALANCE
ThermometerTHERMOMETER
BuretteBURETTE
StopwatchSTOPWATCH
SyringeSYRINGE
TongsTONGS
CrucibleCRUCIBLE
ClampCLAMP
TripodTRIPOD
MortarMORTAR
PestlePESTLE
ForcepsFORCEPS
MagnetMAGNET
BatteryBATTERY

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Answer key: Lab Equipment Word Search

IOLQSBSTTCEOOEE

WITTYECCTTCTCFI

DDQDRARDYHUETCR

VODNIKUMPESTLEO

MCWINECOBRBNRCI

BNDHGRIROMNAYII

AYCSECBTTONGSMP

MAGNETLATMANSNF

BALANCERYENTNCO

NAASTOPWATCHCTR

SNTONFUNNELNHWC

BURETTELTRAAEIE

ACBATTERYTMHLBP

AOPVHWJKHRPHEOS

DIPTRIPODBOAXSR

BEAKER, FUNNEL, BALANCE, THERMOMETER, BURETTE, STOPWATCH, SYRINGE, TONGS, CRUCIBLE, CLAMP, TRIPOD, MORTAR, PESTLE, FORCEPS, MAGNET, BATTERY

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Lab Glassware 18

Ampoule A small sealed container, usually glass, that keeps a sample away from air.
Beaker A cylinder-shaped container with a flat bottom; most have a small spout for pouring.
Bell jar A glass cover, open at the bottom, often used to hold a vacuum.
Condenser Apparatus that cools vapors so that they turn into liquids.
Cuvette A small, clear, straight-sided container that holds a sample for measurements with light.
Desiccator A sealable enclosure holding a drying agent, to keep its contents free of moisture.
Erlenmeyer A container with a flat bottom, a cone-shaped body and a narrow neck.
Florence flask A container with a round body and a long neck, shaped so a liquid heats evenly.
Funnel A pipe, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, that guides liquid or powder into a small opening.
Gas syringe Glassware that measures the volume of gas given off by a chemical reaction.
Glass rod A solid stick with rounded ends, used to stir and mix chemicals.
Reagent bottle A capped or stoppered container that stores a chemical as a liquid or a powder.
Retort A round vessel with a long neck pointing down, used for distillation.
Stopcock A valve that controls the flow of a liquid or gas, as at the lower end of a burette.
Test tube A finger-shaped length of glass or clear plastic, open at the top and closed at the bottom.
Thistle tube A shaft of glass with a funnel-like top, used to add liquid to an apparatus.
Vial A small glass or plastic bottle that can hold a sample.
Watch glass A round, concave dish that evaporates a liquid, holds a solid being weighed or covers a beaker.

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Measuring Tools 22

Balance A device that measures mass or weight.
Barometer A scientific instrument that measures air pressure.
Burette A long, marked glass tube with a tap at its lower end that lets out known volumes of a liquid.
Calipers An instrument that measures the length, width, thickness or diameter of an object.
Calorimeter A device that measures the heat of a chemical reaction or a physical change.
Colorimeter A device that measures how much light of certain wavelengths a solution absorbs.
Cylinder With "graduated", a tall narrow container with marked lines for measuring a liquid's volume.
Data logger An electronic device that records readings over time from a sensor.
Geiger counter An electronic instrument that detects and measures ionizing radiation.
Hydrometer An instrument that uses buoyancy to measure the density of a liquid.
Hygrometer An instrument that measures humidity, the water vapor in the air.
Indicator A chemical that shows by its color how acidic or basic a solution is.
Micrometer A device with a calibrated screw that measures the size of small parts accurately.
pH meter An instrument that measures how acidic or alkaline a water-based solution is.
Pipette A tool that moves a measured volume of liquid from one container to another.
Protractor A common instrument for measuring an angle.
Spectroscope An instrument that measures properties of light over part of the spectrum to identify materials.
Spring scale A coil with a hook that measures a force or a weight; also called a newton meter.
Stopwatch A timepiece that measures the time between its start and its stop.
Syringe A plunger fitting tightly inside a tube, which takes in and pushes out a liquid or gas.
Tape measure A long, flexible ruler for finding a length or a distance.
Thermometer A device that measures temperature, how hot or cold an object is.

Heating, Holding and Mixing 30

Alcohol burner A piece of equipment, also called a spirit lamp, that gives an open flame.
Autoclave A machine that uses raised temperature and pressure, as to sterilize instruments.
Bunsen burner A device that mixes gas with air to give one open flame for heating and sterilizing.
Centrifuge A device that spins samples at high speed to separate the parts of a fluid.
Clamp A fastening device that holds an object tightly in place.
Cork borer A metal tool that cuts a hole in a rubber stopper to take glass tubing.
Crucible A container in which substances are melted or heated to very high temperatures.
Forceps A hinged instrument, held in the hand, that grasps and holds objects.
Heating mantle Equipment that warms a container, used in place of a heated bath.
Hot plate A heated flat surface that serves as a heat source in a laboratory.
Iron ring A metal circle joined to a rod, which supports apparatus above the work surface.
Lab jack A scissor-shaped lifting stage that raises beakers, flasks or other equipment.
Mortar The bowl in which substances are crushed and ground into a paste or powder.
Oven With "laboratory", a heated chamber with precise temperature control.
Pestle A blunt, club-shaped tool that crushes and grinds substances in a bowl.
Ring stand A support for burettes, test tubes and flasks; also called a retort or clamp stand.
Scissors A hand tool whose two pivoting blades slide past each other to cut.
Shaker Equipment with a moving board that mixes substances in a flask or tube.
Sieve A mesh tool that separates wanted material from unwanted, or sorts particles by size.
Spatula A tool with a wide, flat, bendable blade for lifting, mixing and spreading material.
Spot plate A ceramic or plastic tile with many small hollows for reactions on tiny amounts.
Stir bar A small rod that spins in a liquid, driven by a rotating magnetic field, to mix it.
Test tube brush A bristled cleaner on a wire handle for narrow-mouth glassware.
Test tube holder A tool that grips a piece of narrow glassware while it is hot or being heated.
Test tube rack Equipment that keeps several pieces of narrow glassware upright at the same time.
Tongs A tool that grips and lifts objects, often ones too hot to hold.
Tripod A three-legged platform that supports flasks and beakers.
Vortex mixer A simple device with an electric motor that blends small vials of liquid.
Water bath A container of heated water that keeps samples at a constant temperature.
Wire gauze A mesh woven of metal, placed between a burner and glassware.

Physics Lab Equipment 29

Air track A hollow rail with fine holes, on which cars glide with very little friction.
Ammeter An instrument that measures the current in a circuit, in amperes.
Battery A source of electric power made of one or more electrochemical cells.
Breadboard A base for building trial electronic circuits without soldering.
Bulb With "light", an electric lamp; in one kind a filament is heated until it glows.
Coil A conductor wound into the shape of a spiral or helix.
Compass A device whose magnetized needle turns to line up with magnetic north.
Electroscope An early scientific instrument that detects electric charge on a body.
Fuse A safety device whose metal strip melts when too much current flows.
Galvanometer An electromechanical instrument that measures electric current.
Laser A device whose beam of light can stay narrow over great distances.
Lens A piece of transparent material that focuses or spreads a light beam by refraction.
Magnet An object that produces a field pulling on iron, steel, nickel and cobalt.
Mirror An object that reflects an image of whatever is in front of it.
Motor A machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.
Multimeter An instrument that can measure voltage, resistance and current.
Oscilloscope An electronic test instrument that draws changing voltages as a graph over time.
Pendulum A weight hung from a pivot so that it can swing freely.
Power supply An electrical device that feeds a load with current at the correct voltage.
Prism A transparent piece with flat, polished surfaces that refract light.
Pulley A wheel on an axle that lets a taut cable or belt move and change direction.
Ramp An inclined plane: a flat surface tilted with one end higher than the other.
Resistor An electronic component that reduces the flow of current in a circuit.
Ripple tank A shallow glass tray of water that shows the basic properties of waves.
Spring An elastic coil that returns to its shape after being compressed or stretched.
Switch A component that connects or disconnects the conducting path in a circuit.
Tuning fork A two-pronged metal bar that sounds at one constant pitch when struck.
Voltmeter An instrument that measures the electric potential difference between two points of a circuit.
Wire A flexible, round bar of metal, often drawn thin through a hole in a die.

Microscope and Biology Lab 19

Agar plate A shallow dish holding a jelly-like growth medium for culturing microorganisms.
Aquarium A container with at least one transparent side in which water plants or animals are kept.
Cover slip A small, thin sheet of glass placed over the specimen to keep it pressed flat.
Eyepiece The lens of a microscope or telescope that is closest to the viewer.
Hand lens A convex magnifier in a frame with a handle; a magnifying glass.
Incubator A device that keeps cultures of cells or microbes at the right temperature and humidity.
Loop With "inoculation", a simple tool that picks up and moves a small sample of microorganisms.
Microscope A laboratory instrument for examining objects too small for the naked eye.
Microtome A cutting tool that makes extremely thin slices of material, known as sections.
Objective The lens that gathers light from the object observed and focuses it into an image.
Petri dish A shallow, clear, lidded container in which biologists grow cells.
Quadrat A frame, traditionally square, that marks off a standard area for study in ecology.
Scalpel A small, extremely sharp bladed instrument used for dissection.
Slide A thin, flat piece of glass that holds an object for examination under a microscope.
Stage The platform of a microscope that holds the specimen.
Stain A dye that adds contrast to a sample seen at the microscopic level.
Swab A wad of cotton wrapped around a short rod.
Terrarium A glass container holding soil and plants.
Turret The rotating part of a microscope that holds its set of lenses.

Lab Equipment Key Terms 1

Flask A lab container whose wide body narrows to a neck at the top.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the word list and every clue were written for this page. The facts in the clues were checked on 2026-10-08 against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), among them the articles on laboratory glassware (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_glassware), the beaker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaker_(laboratory_equipment)), the laboratory flask (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_flask), the graduated cylinder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduated_cylinder), the burette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burette), the pipette (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipette), tongs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongs), forceps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forceps), tweezers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweezers), the clamp stand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamp_stand), the Bunsen burner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunsen_burner) and the optical microscope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_microscope). A vocabulary list for class, not a safety instruction. Licence: own work

How it works

This lab equipment word search names the tools on a school lab bench, 119 of them. The first grid draws 16 of 24 key terms such as Beaker, Burette and Tongs.

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A free printable laboratory equipment word search, list by list

Under Start from a list, Lab Glassware has 18 words, from Beaker and Erlenmeyer to Thistle tube and Desiccator. Measuring Tools has 22, Calipers, Hydrometer and pH meter among them. Heating, Holding and Mixing has 30, with Tripod, Wire gauze, Mortar and Pestle.

Physics and biology benches

Physics Lab Equipment has 29 words, such as Ammeter, Ripple tank and Tuning fork. Microscope and Biology Lab has 19 and names the parts a pupil handles: Eyepiece, Objective, Stage and Turret. Rules, hazards and safety gear are on the lab safety word search.

Graduated cylinder has 17 letters, too many for a 15 by 15 grid, so the list has Cylinder.
Test tube holder, Test tube rack and Test tube brush each hide as one run of letters: TESTTUBERACK.

Questions and answers

What is the difference between a beaker and a flask?

A beaker is a cylinder-shaped container with a flat bottom and straight sides, and most have a small spout for pouring. A flask has a wider body that narrows to a neck at the top.

What lab equipment is used to measure the volume of a liquid?

A graduated cylinder: each marked line shows an amount of liquid. A burette delivers known volumes through a tap at one end, and a pipette moves one measured volume from one container to another.

What is the difference between tongs and forceps?

Tongs grip and lift objects, often ones too hot to hold. Forceps are a hinged instrument, held in the hand, that grasps and holds objects. Tweezers are small forceps for things too small for the fingers.

Can pupils solve the lab equipment puzzle from definitions?

Yes. Tick Show clues, not words, and Tripod prints as "A three-legged platform that supports flasks and beakers." The answer key follows as page 2, on Letter or A4.

All 119 words

Lab Glassware 18

Measuring Tools 22

Heating, Holding and Mixing 30

Physics Lab Equipment 29

Microscope and Biology Lab 19

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