Unicorn Word Search Printable

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NFHNIXSDGCELPNT

SHIMMERPSGAIELG

LYDFNWNPJLMTGQN

IEOHTTPNUIAHADR

LEGENDSOYTOASGM

ULHARXGRTTROUZT

RSENCHANTEDTSCW

HORNRIIFORESTRI

IMREPWEGGDHRATS

IPDMUNICORNHIRH

ISPARKLEREDRSKA

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UnicornUNICORN
HornHORN
ManeMANE
MagicMAGIC
EnchantedENCHANTED
SparkleSPARKLE
GlitterGLITTER
ShimmerSHIMMER
DreamDREAM
WishWISH
CloudCLOUD
MoonMOON
ForestFOREST
LegendLEGEND
PegasusPEGASUS

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NFHNIXSDGCELPNT

SHIMMERPSGAIELG

LYDFNWNPJLMTGQN

IEOHTTPNUIAHADR

LEGENDSOYTOASGM

ULHARXGRTTROUZT

RSENCHANTEDTSCW

HORNRIIFORESTRI

IMREPWEGGDHRATS

IPDMUNICORNHIRH

ISPARKLEREDRSKA

IDLGMRNPPATOBGF

MCIIWFRMRMANEZP

TASCLOUDUAOMOON

NNOSXRSTLFIEKHN

UNICORN, HORN, MANE, MAGIC, ENCHANTED, SPARKLE, GLITTER, SHIMMER, DREAM, WISH, CLOUD, MOON, FOREST, LEGEND, PEGASUS

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Horn and Hooves 21

Alicorn An old word for a unicorn's horn. Newer stories also use it for a unicorn with wings.
Beard Hair on the chin. Many old paintings give the unicorn a small one, like a goat's.
Canter A smooth three-beat pace that falls between trot and gallop. The word is short for Canterbury pace.
Cloven Split in two. Goats and deer have hooves like this, and so do the unicorns of old paintings.
Coat An animal's covering of hair. For about a thousand years artists have made the unicorn's white.
Filly A young female horse.
Foal A horse less than one year old. A healthy one can keep up with the herd a few hours after birth.
Forelock The part of the mane that hangs forward between the ears over the forehead.
Gallop A horse's fastest pace, about 25 to 30 miles an hour.
Hooves The hard feet of a horse. In old pictures a unicorn's are split in two, like a goat's.
Horn The single spike on a unicorn's forehead. Old books said it could make poisoned water safe to drink.
Mane The long hair that grows along the top of a horse's neck.
Mare A grown female horse.

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Horn and Hooves, continued

Neigh The loud cry of a horse.
Nuzzle To rub gently with the nose.
Prance To leap ahead off the hind legs, or to step high and proud.
Spiral A curve that winds around and around. A unicorn's horn is drawn with grooves of this shape.
Tail Coats of arms often give the unicorn this part of a lion, with a tuft of hair at the tip.
Trot A steady two-beat pace, faster than a walk, at about 8 miles an hour.
Unicorn A horse-like creature of legend with one horn. The name joins the Latin words for one and horn.
Whinny A gentle neigh.

Magic and Sparkle 20

Charm A small object or a few words thought to bring good luck.
Dazzle To shine so brightly that it is hard to look.
Dream A story your mind tells while you sleep, or a hope you hold on to.
Enchanted Under a magic spell, like a forest where the trees can talk.
Fairy A tiny magical being with wings. The word goes back to the Latin for fate.
Gleam A small, bright flash of light.
Glisten To shine as wet things do, like grass after rain.
Glitter Tiny shiny flakes that catch the light. Cave painters used flakes of the mineral mica for the same effect.
Glow A steady, soft light.
Healing Making well again. Legend said a unicorn's horn could cure the sick.
Magic A power that makes impossible things happen in stories.
Marvel Something that fills you with surprise and delight.
Mystical Full of magic and mystery that is hard to explain.
Shimmer To shine with a soft light that seems to tremble.
Sparkle To shine with tiny flashes of light. The word grew out of spark.
Spellbound Held still by magic, or by something so lovely that you cannot look away.
Stardust Dust from space. In stories, the glittering dust that magic leaves behind.
Twinkle To shine with a light that flickers, as stars seem to do.
Whimsy Playful, fanciful fun.
Wish A hope for something, often made in secret.

Rainbow Colors 19

Arc A curved line, like part of a circle. From the ground a rainbow is one. From an airplane it can be a full circle.
Blue The fifth rainbow color, the color of a clear sky.
Bubble A thin ball of soapy water filled with air. Its skin shows shifting rainbow colors.
Golden Bright yellow with a shine, like a crown or a ring.
Green The fourth and middle color of the rainbow.
Indigo The deep blue between blue and violet. Named for a plant dye that came to Europe from India.
Iridescent Showing colors that change as you move, like a soap bubble. From iris, the Greek word for rainbow.
Orange The second rainbow color. It was named after the fruit, and first written down as a color in 1502.
Pink A pale red. The color was named in the late 1600s after garden flowers of the same name.
Prism A block of glass that splits white light into the colors of the rainbow.
Purple Red and blue mixed together. In the ancient world the dye for it came from sea snails and cost a fortune.
Rainbow An arc of colors made when sunlight passes through falling water drops. It always appears opposite the sun.
Raindrop A single bead of falling water. Each one bends sunlight and spreads it into colors, and together they make a rainbow.
Red The first of the seven rainbow colors, on the outside of the arc.
Shower A short fall of rain. When the sun shines through one, look for a rainbow.
Spectrum The whole band of rainbow colors. Isaac Newton first used the word this way in print in 1671.
Sunlight Light from the sun. It looks white, but a prism shows that it holds every rainbow color.
Violet The last rainbow color, along the arc's inner edge. It is named after the flower.
Yellow The third rainbow color, the color of lemons and buttercups.

Clouds and Sky 18

Aurora Moving curtains of colored light in the polar sky. Named after the dawn goddess of the Romans.
Cloud A white or gray mass of tiny water drops floating in the sky.
Comet A ball of ice and dust that grows a long tail near the sun. The name comes from the Greek for long-haired.
Crescent The thin curved shape of a young moon. From a Latin word that means to grow.
Dawn The first light of day.
Dew Drops of water that form on cool grass and leaves in the evening or early morning.
Dusk The darker part of twilight, just before night.
Halo A circle of light round the sun or moon, made by ice crystals high in the air.
Horizon The line where the sky seems to meet the land or the sea.
Mist A thin cloud of tiny water drops near the ground. It is thinner than fog.
Moon Its light can make a rainbow too, a night bow so faint that it often looks white.
Snowflake A single ice crystal that falls in winter. Its arms grow in a six-sided pattern.
Starlight The glow that reaches us at night from far-off suns.
Sunbeam A ray of sunlight, easiest to see when it breaks through a gap in the clouds.
Sunrise The moment the sun comes up over the horizon.
Sunset The moment the sun goes down at the end of the day.
Twilight The soft light in the sky just after sunset or just before sunrise.
Zephyr A soft west wind. Named after Zephyrus, the west wind god of the Greeks.

Enchanted Forest 19

Acorn The nut of an oak tree, which sits in its own little cup.
Brook A small stream.
Butterfly An insect with bright wings covered in tiny scales. It begins life as a caterpillar.
Clover A small plant with three round leaflets. About 1 in 5,000 has four, which is why finding one is lucky.
Fawn A young deer. Its mother is called a doe.
Fern A leafy plant that has no flowers and no seeds. It spreads by spores.
Firefly A small beetle that flashes light at twilight to find a mate.
Forest A large area of land covered with trees. Medieval writers called the unicorn a creature of the woods.
Glade An open, grassy space in the middle of a forest.
Grove A small group of trees.
Meadow A field of grass and wild flowers.
Mushroom A fungus with a stem and a cap. A circle of them in the grass is called a fairy ring.
Pebble A small, smooth stone, rounded by running water.
Petal One of the colored parts of a flower.
Squirrel A small animal with a long bushy tail. The tree kind can climb down a trunk headfirst.
Thicket A dense patch of bushes and small trees.
Toadstool The kind of mushroom a fairy sits on in picture books. The name is used for ones that are not safe to eat.
Waterfall A place where a river or stream drops over a ledge.
Willow A tree with slender, bending branches. There are about 350 kinds.

Unicorn Legends 22

Ancient Very, very old. Greek writers of long ago listed the unicorn as a real animal, not a myth.
Bestiary A medieval book of beasts, real and imaginary, each with a picture and a lesson.
Chain A row of metal links. The royal arms of Scotland show two unicorns, and each wears a crown and one of these.
Coin A piece of metal money. From 1484 to 1525 Scotland had a gold one called the unicorn.
Emblem A picture that stands for a country, a family or an idea.
Fable A short story, often about animals, that teaches a lesson.
Fierce Strong and ready to fight. That is what a Roman writer called the one-horned monoceros.
Heraldry The art of coats of arms. A unicorn on a coat of arms often wears a collar with a broken chain.
India The first writers to describe unicorns, in old Greece, said the animals lived in this far-off Asian land.
Legend An old story handed down for so long that no one knows how much of it is true.
Lion In heraldry this big cat and the unicorn are old rivals. Together they hold up the United Kingdom's royal arms.
Medieval From the Middle Ages, roughly the years 500 to 1500, the age of knights and unicorn tapestries.
Monoceros A faint constellation whose name is Greek for unicorn. It first appeared on a globe in 1612 or 1613.
Myth A very old story that explains the world with gods, heroes or magical beasts.
Narwhal An Arctic whale with one long spiral tusk. In the Middle Ages its tusks were sold as unicorn horns.
Rhinoceros A real animal with a horn on its nose. The traveler Marco Polo saw one and wrote that it was a unicorn.
Scotland The unicorn is the national animal of this country north of England, and has been a symbol of it since the 1100s.
Swift Very fast. The earliest account of the unicorn calls it fleet of foot.
Symbol Something that stands for an idea. In the Middle Ages the unicorn stood for purity and grace.
Tapestry A heavy woven wall hanging with a picture in it. A famous set of seven from about 1500 shows a unicorn hunt.
Tusk A very long tooth that sticks out of the mouth. A narwhal's can grow to almost 10 feet.
Wild Living free, not tamed. That is how medieval books described the unicorn of the woods.

Mythical Creatures 19

Centaur A being of Greek myth that is human from the waist up, with the body and legs of a horse.
Dragon A giant serpent-like beast, often with wings. In East Asia they were kindly beings that ruled the rain.
Elf A magical being from the old stories of northern Europe.
Gnome A small being said to live underground. Garden statues of them arrived in the 1800s.
Griffin A beast with a lion's body and an eagle's head and wings. In legend they guard treasure.
Hippogriff Half eagle, half horse. An Italian poet invented it for a long poem published in 1516.
Kelpie A shape-shifting water spirit of the Scottish lochs, most often seen as a horse.
Kraken A giant sea monster of Norwegian legend. The stories may have begun with sightings of giant squid.
Leprechaun A tiny shoemaker of Irish folklore who hides a pot of gold where the rainbow ends.
Mermaid A sea being with a woman's upper body and a fish's tail.
Nymph In Greek myth, a spirit of nature who belongs to one tree, spring or hill.
Pegasus The winged horse of Greek myth, usually shown as a white stallion.
Phoenix A bird of legend that is born again from its own ashes.
Pixie A small, playful being from the folklore of Devon and Cornwall in England.
Qilin A hooved creature of Chinese legend, said to appear when a wise ruler arrives. In 1414 an emperor took a giraffe for one.
Selkie In Scottish tales, a seal that can take off its skin and walk on land as a human.
Sphinx A lion-bodied creature whose head is human. In Greek myth she asks travelers a riddle.
Sprite A fairy-like spirit, often of the water. The word comes from the Latin for spirit.
Yeti A large, hairy creature said to live in the Himalayan mountains.

How this list was compiled: 138 unicorn, rainbow and make-believe words chosen and defined for this site: seven themed lists (horn and hooves, magic and sparkle, rainbow colors, clouds and sky, enchanted forest, unicorn legends, mythical creatures), a 24-word starter list, 12 short words and every word of 8 letters or more. The list holds no toy, cartoon, film or book character and no brand name; every creature named is from folklore or myth, and India and Scotland are place names. Facts were checked on 18 September 2026 in English Wikipedia, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ followed by Unicorn, Narwhal, Winged_unicorn, The_Unicorn_Tapestries, Scotland, Coat_of_arms_of_Scotland, Coat_of_arms_of_the_United_Kingdom, Unicorn_(coin), Monoceros, Bestiary, Trot, Canter_and_gallop, Foal, Cloven_hoof, Lion, Rainbow, Visible_spectrum, Orange_(colour), Pink, Tyrian_purple, Iridescence, Moonbow, Glitter, Four-leaf_clover, Fairy_ring, Squirrel, Hippogriff, Qilin and Kraken, and by the name of each other sky, forest and creature word in the list (Aurora, Comet, Fern, Pegasus, Griffin and so on), and at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alicorn Licence: own work

How it works

One list in this unicorn word search printable tells why people believed in unicorns: Unicorn Legends, with Narwhal, Tapestry and Scotland. Six more run from Horn and Hooves to Mythical Creatures, and the starter list has 24 words.

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Match the list to the child

Rainbow Colors holds the seven colors of the rainbow, Red through Violet. Press Add another until the list holds 20 words and the sheet holds all seven. Horn and Hooves is a horse list, with Forelock, Canter and Filly for the pupil who rides. Unicorn Legends and Mythical Creatures stretch older pupils with Kelpie, Qilin and Hippogriff. Each list is a button under Start from a list.

Real history in the Unicorn Legends list

Ancient Greek writers described the unicorn as a real animal that lived in India. In the Middle Ages narwhal tusks, which grow to almost 10 feet, were sold as unicorn horns. A famous set of seven tapestries from about 1500 shows a unicorn hunt, and the faint constellation Monoceros carries the Greek name for unicorn.

Hippogriff, half eagle and half horse, was invented by an Italian poet for a poem published in 1516.
After a Unicorn Legends sheet, pupils can draw a coat of arms held by two animals, like Scotland's two unicorns.

Questions and answers

Did people really believe in unicorns?

For centuries, yes. Greek writers of natural history were sure that unicorns lived in India, and Marco Polo saw a rhinoceros and wrote that it was a unicorn. In 1638 the Danish physician Ole Worm showed that the unicorn horns in collections were narwhal tusks.

Which list has the Scotland and heraldry words?

Unicorn Legends, 22 words. Scotland, Heraldry and Coin are all in it, and their clues say why. The unicorn is Scotland's national animal, a symbol of the country since the 1100s. From 1484 to 1525 a gold coin was called the unicorn.

Which list fits a lesson on rainbows or weather?

Use Rainbow Colors with Clouds and Sky. The clues carry facts to check outdoors. A rainbow always appears opposite the sun, with red on the outside of the arc and violet on the inside. Moonlight can make a faint one too, called a moonbow.

All 138 words

Horn and Hooves 21

Horn and Hooves, continued

Magic and Sparkle 20

Rainbow Colors 19

Clouds and Sky 18

Enchanted Forest 19

Unicorn Legends 22

Mythical Creatures 19

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