Illustrated Car Vocabulary

Words commonly used to describe parts of a car. You can download this image as an A4/A3 wall poster from our free ESL posters page.

car vocabulary

Vocabulary in context

Below, you see the words used in example sentences
  • aerial (UK): The aerial on the car enables us to pick up radio signals.
  • antenna (US): The antenna on the car enables us to pick up radio signals.
  • bonnet (UK): A bird landed on the bonnet of my car.
  • boot (UK): I opened the boot and took out my suitcase.
  • bumper: There are bumpers at the front and at the back of the car.
  • headlight: When driving at night, we must turn on our headlights.
  • hood (US): A bird landed on the hood of my car.
  • indicator (UK): The indicator tells us when the car is going to turn.
  • license plate (US): I recognised his car because of the license plate.
  • mirror: I looked in the mirror to see what was behind me.
  • number plate (UK): I recognised his car because of the number plate.
  • tire (US): I needed to put more air in my tires.
  • trunk (US): I opened the trunk and took out my suitcase.
  • turn signal (US): The turn signal tells us when the car is going to turn.
  • tyre (UK): I needed to put more air in my tyres.
  • wheel: The wheels began to turn as he started to drive.
  • windscreen (UK), windshield (US): The windscreen was dirty, and I couldn’t see what was ahead of me.
  • windscreen wiper (UK), windshield wiper (US): I turned on the windshield wipers to clean the windshield.