Dinosaur Word Search

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The list for this puzzle holds fifty dinosaurs and the words that go with them, from Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops out to Xenoceratops, Yinlong, Zuul and Mei. Free to print as a PDF, or play it online.

The word itself is younger than most of the animals on the list are old in our knowledge. Richard Owen coined dinosaur in 1842 from the Greek for fearfully great lizard, and he meant the first half as a remark about size rather than a warning. Almost nothing here had been dug up when he named the group.

The two shortest names are the most interesting. Mei is the shortest dinosaur name there is, Chinese for sleeping dragon, given to a small specimen found curled up with its snout tucked under a forelimb exactly the way a bird sleeps. Zuul was named in 2017 after the creature in Ghostbusters, because the skull reminded the paleontologists of it, and the full name Zuul crurivastator means destroyer of shins.

Grab the free PDF for a museum trip, or play online and get a new set of names each round.

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Dinosaur Word Search Printable Puzzles

Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Dinosaur word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Dinosaur has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.

• Allosaurus
• Amber
• Ankylosaurus
• Apatosaurus
• Archaeopteryx
• Bones
• Brachiosaurus
• Brontomerus
• Claws
• Compsognathus
• Deinonychus
• Dilophosaurus
• Diplodocus
• Echinodon
• Extinct
• Fossil
• Gigantoraptor
• Hadrosaurus
• Horns
• Iguanodon
• Isanosaurus
• Jinfengopteryx
• Jurassic
• Kol
• Liliensternus
• Megalosaurus
• Mei
• Minmi
• Nomingia
• Plates
• Raptor
• Scales
• Segisaurus
• Spinosaurus
• Stegoceras
• Stegosaurus
• Tail
• Teeth
• Tianchisaurus
• Triassic
• Triceratops
• Troodon
• Tsintaosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus
• Utahraptor
• Velociraptor
• Vulcanodon
• Xenoceratops
• Yinlong
• Zuul