Erm, I hate it to level it out to you, however there are literally 37 (not 38) legitimate nouns on this wordsearch… (however you then already knew that…)

The solved grid appears like this:

And the 37 nouns hid inside are (listed within the order of your enumerations):

BATH, CONE, DESK, EYES, HAIR, NICK, PAUL, SINK, SOAP, TACK, BECKY, DRAIN, ELBOW, TONGUE, CRYBABY, DENTIST, ELLIOTT, KISSING, SINGING, SWEATER, DR FIELDS, ICE CREAM, STING RAY, SAILBOAT, MRS GIBSON, LIMA BEANS, AUSTRALIA, BEST FRIEND, NIGHT LIGHT, ALBERT MOYO, HERSHEY BAR, SKATEBOARD, STRAWBERRY, MICKEY MOUSE, PHILIP PARKER, ELEVATOR DOOR, RAILROAD TRAIN

What do these have in widespread? They all…

…seem within the kids’s e book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. (A full transcription of the phrases might be discovered right here.)

Note that the leftover letters spell out a message, learn from left to proper and high to backside:

WHY DID I MISCOUNT THE NUMBER OF WORDS?

To reply this:

observe that within the story itself, the primary character makes his personal miscount:

At counting time [the teacher] stated I omitted sixteen. Who wants sixteen? I might inform it was going to be a horrible, horrible, no good, very dangerous day.

And that is precisely what you may have completed your self – totally intending to incorporate it because the thirty eighth phrase in your wordsearch you have omitted ‘SIXTEEN’!

I believe that now because of this you might be in all probability having your individual horrible, horrible, no good, very dangerous day… (Which would additionally clarify why – similar to how within the story Alexander hates lima beans, kissing and his rail-road pajamas – you appear to be feeling some hate of your individual in the direction of wordsearches within the title!)