What does windscreen mean?
Word: Windscreen
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Windscreen means the large glass window at the front of a car, bus or truck that keeps wind and rain off the driver.
Synonyms: windshield
How do you spell windscreen?
Syllables: wind - screen
Tricky part: Say the d of wind clearly: winscreen, with the d dropped, is the slip most children make.
Watch out for: winscreen, wendscreen, winsdcreen
Memory tip: Picture the wind blowing hard against the glass: write the whole of wind, d and all, before the rest.
Windscreen in a sentence
Example 1: Papa cleaned the dusty windscreen with a wet cloth at the petrol station.
Example 2: A yellow butterfly landed on the bus windscreen at the traffic light.
Example 3: The windscreen of the old jeep had a small crack in one corner.
Fun Fact
A car windscreen is made of two layers of glass with a thin plastic sheet between them, so it cracks instead of breaking into sharp pieces.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Fusion
Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:
wind______
a) skreen
b) scren
c) screen
d) screan
Show answer
c) screen. The second part is screen itself, with sc and a double e.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
windscreen
a) since
b) screw
c) dinner
d) seeds
Show answer
d) seeds. Seeds has two s's, but windscreen offers only one.
Spellacadabra
From which option does a letter need to be removed to make a meaningful word?
a) headlight
b) windscreen
c) enginne
d) mirror
Show answer
c) enginne. Engine has one n on each side of the g; the extra n has to go.
Jumble Tumble
Which option has letters that you can rearrange to form the name of a part of a car?
a) nescriewnd
b) rebmpuu
c) leehwe
d) tonnebe
Show answer
a) nescriewnd. These ten letters make windscreen; the others are bonnet, bumper and wheel with one letter too many.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these vehicles has no windscreen?
a) a taxi
b) an ambulance
c) a bicycle
d) a lorry
Show answer
c) a bicycle
2. What clears rain from a windscreen while a car is moving?
a) the wipers
b) the horn
c) the brakes
d) the boot
Show answer
a) the wipers
