November Word Search Printable

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November Word Search

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0 of 16 words found

SJTOPAZASYOLOJT

BMCSCODTOABOXRH

KITCHENASBALLOT

IRSWYASPYLRKETY

LYYCIEVNIEEUNBS

EIVETERANSCAODN

EOOQOUWNNDIWALI

SRUOFWSODCPMUMS

SOGRATITUDEWICT

ROQIMNOVEMBERLE

AVNSJWMBLQRJAOI

HARVESTMETEORCO

NFEMAYORVGTUNKT

IIFSALUTEWROHSB

UEIHWUSSNPOPPYE

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BallotBALLOT
MayorMAYOR
GratitudeGRATITUDE
HarvestHARVEST
KitchenKITCHEN
RecipeRECIPE
VeteransVETERANS
ElevenELEVEN
SaluteSALUTE
PoppyPOPPY
DiwaliDIWALI
NovemberNOVEMBER
ClocksCLOCKS
MeteorMETEOR
TopazTOPAZ
MumsMUMS

16 of 24 words from the November Favorites list.

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SJTOPAZASYOLOJT

BMCSCODTOABOXRH

KITCHENASBALLOT

IRSWYASPYLRKETY

LYYCIEVNIEEUNBS

EIVETERANSCAODN

EOOQOUWNNDIWALI

SRUOFWSODCPMUMS

SOGRATITUDEWICT

ROQIMNOVEMBERLE

AVNSJWMBLQRJAOI

HARVESTMETEORCO

NFEMAYORVGTUNKT

IIFSALUTEWROHSB

UEIHWUSSNPOPPYE

BALLOT, MAYOR, GRATITUDE, HARVEST, KITCHEN, RECIPE, VETERANS, ELEVEN, SALUTE, POPPY, DIWALI, NOVEMBER, CLOCKS, METEOR, TOPAZ, MUMS

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Election Day 16

Ballot The paper or screen on which a person marks a choice.
Booth A small private space where a ballot is filled in.
Campaign The weeks of speeches, signs and handshakes before an election.
Candidate A person who runs for office and asks for votes.
Citizen A member of a country by birth or by law, with the right to vote once grown up.
Debate An event where candidates answer the same questions side by side.
Democracy A system in which the people choose their leaders.
Election A vote to choose leaders. In the United States the big day is the Tuesday after the first Monday.
Governor The elected leader of a state.
Mayor The elected leader of a town or city.
Polls The places where people go to vote, often a school gym or a library.
President Chosen every four years, in years that divide evenly by four.
Register To sign up ahead of time so that you are allowed to vote.
Senator Each state sends two of these to Washington.
Tuesday Election Day's weekday since 1845. It always lands between the 2nd and the 8th.
Voter A person who takes part in an election.

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Giving Thanks 15

Apron Worn over clothes to keep flour and gravy off.
Biscuit A small soft bread, served warm with butter.
Fourth Thanksgiving is this Thursday of the month, a rule set by a law signed in December 1941.
Gather What a family does around one table for the big meal.
Gratitude The feeling of being thankful, and the point of the holiday.
Hale Sarah Josepha, the magazine editor whose years of editorials led Lincoln to proclaim Thanksgiving in 1863.
Harvest Bringing in the crops. Election Day was set in this month in 1845 because farmers had finished it.
Kitchen The busiest room in the house on Thanksgiving morning.
Napkin A cloth or paper square set at each place at the table.
Nutmeg A warm brown spice in pumpkin pie, along with cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
Pie Pumpkin, pecan or apple, it ends the Thanksgiving meal.
Platter A large flat dish for carrying the roast to the table.
Recipe Written steps for a dish, often handed down in a family.
Thursday Thanksgiving's weekday. The date slides between the 22nd and the 28th.
Turkey The bird most families roast for the fourth Thursday.

Days to Remember 22

Address The name given to Lincoln's short speech at Gettysburg.
Altar A table of photos, candles and food made at home for the Day of the Dead, also called an ofrenda.
Armistice An agreement to stop fighting. The one that ended World War I began on the 11th in 1918.
Canada Here the 11th is Remembrance Day, and the poppy has been its symbol since 1921.
Diwali The Hindu festival of lights. It falls between the middle of October and the middle of this month.
Eleven The 1918 armistice began at this hour, on this day, in this month.
Fireworks They light the sky on Diwali night, after the oil lamps are lit at home.
Flanders The part of Belgium whose fields are named in John McCrae's 1915 poem about poppies.
Gettysburg The town where Lincoln gave a speech of under two minutes on the 19th in 1863.
Heritage What is handed down from the past. The month honors that of Native Americans, by a 1990 declaration.
Kindness Being gentle and helpful. The 13th is a world day for it.
Lamp Small clay ones that burn oil, called diyas, light homes at Diwali.
Marigold A bright orange flower set on home altars in Mexico on the 1st and 2nd.
Mexico The country where the Day of the Dead is kept on the 1st and 2nd.
Nations Peoples with their own governments, as in the Navajo or the Cherokee.
Pennsylvania The state that holds Gettysburg and its national cemetery.
Poppy A red flower worn in Canada and Britain in the days up to the 11th.
Rangoli A bright floor pattern made with colored powder or sand to decorate a home for Diwali.
Remembrance Canada's name for the day kept on the 11th.
Salute A sign of respect, made by raising the right hand to the forehead.
Sugar Skulls made of this, with bright icing, are a Day of the Dead tradition.
Veterans People who served in the armed forces. Their day is the 11th, and its name has no apostrophe.

November Calendar and Sky 11

Arizona A state that does not change its clocks, apart from the Navajo Nation.
Clocks In most of the United States these go back one hour at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday.
Comet Tempel-Tuttle is one. The dust it leaves behind makes the Leonid shooting stars.
Hour Sixty minutes, and what most Americans gain back when daylight saving time ends.
Leonids A yearly shower of shooting stars that seems to stream out of the constellation Leo.
Meteor A streak of light made by space dust burning up. The Leonid shower peaks around the 17th.
Nine What novem stands for, the Latin number behind the name of the month.
November The eleventh month today. Its Latin name means ninth, its place in the oldest Roman calendar.
Sagittarius The archer star sign, which begins on the 22nd.
Scorpio The star sign shown as a stinging desert animal, for birthdays up to the 21st.
Standard The kind of time most of the United States returns to on the first Sunday of the month.

November Birthstones and Late Fall 13

Bare How the branches look once the last leaves are down.
Chimney Smoke from the fireplace leaves the house through it.
China Chrysanthemums were first grown here, more than 3,000 years ago.
Citrine A yellow quartz and the second birthstone of the month, added to the list in 1952.
Early When the sun seems to set once the clocks have gone back.
Frost A thin white coat of ice on the grass after a cold night.
Gray The color of many late fall skies.
Lemon Citrine takes its name from the citron, a fruit much like this sour yellow one.
Mums The garden name for the birth flower of the month, a bushy plant that blooms in the fall.
Shorter What the days grow all month in the northern half of the world.
Texas Blue topaz is the state gem here.
Topaz A birthstone of the month. It is colorless when pure and scores 8 on the Mohs scale of hardness.
Utah Topaz is the state gem here.

How this list was compiled: 77 November words with plain meanings written for this site: Election Day, giving thanks, days to remember, the November calendar and sky, and the birthstones and late fall. The facts in the clues were checked on 2026-09-18 against English Wikipedia, chiefly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_%28United_States%29, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrine_%28quartz%29. The clock-change clues follow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States and were read again on 2026-09-20. Licence: own work

How it works

This November word search printable covers an election, a day for veterans and a Thursday built around a turkey. The first grid hides 16 words, Ballot, Poppy and Topaz among them.

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November word search free printable, list by list

Eight lists sit under Start from a list, and the one you pick retitles the sheet. Election Day has 16 civics words, Giving Thanks 15 for the kitchen and the table, and Days to Remember 22, from Armistice to Diwali.

Second grade to fifth

Easy November keeps to the 24 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Pie, Lamp and Mums; open More options for Large print. Hard November's 22 long words need room: with Hard pressed, Pennsylvania and Sagittarius may run backwards or on a diagonal, and the grid grows to hold them.

On Election Day, pick that list and tick Show clues, not words: Booth is "where a ballot is filled in".
In the week of the 11th, Days to Remember has Veterans, Salute and Poppy, and Eleven gives the armistice's hour.

Questions and answers

Does the November word find cover Thanksgiving and Veterans Day?

Both. Giving Thanks has Turkey, Gratitude, Recipe and Nutmeg, and its Fourth clue explains the Thursday rule set by law in 1941. Days to Remember runs from Veterans, Armistice and Poppy to Marigold and Diwali. For the feast alone, print the Thanksgiving word search.

Why is Election Day a Tuesday in November?

Since 1845 it has been the Tuesday after the first Monday, so it always lands between the 2nd and the 8th. November was chosen because farmers had finished the harvest, says the Harvest clue. Tuesday is one of the 16 Election Day words.

What is the November birthstone?

Topaz, and since 1952 Citrine as well. Topaz is colorless when pure and scores 8 on the Mohs scale; Citrine is a yellow quartz named for the citron. The birth flower is the chrysanthemum, entered here by its garden name, Mums.

All 77 words

Election Day 16

Giving Thanks 15

Days to Remember 22

November Calendar and Sky 11

November Birthstones and Late Fall 13

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