Iowa word search word list

11 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make 1 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 1-puzzle book comes to 10 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Amanacolonies
• Caucus
• Cornfield
• Desmoines
• Easterngoldfinch
• Fieldofdreams
• Hawkeye
• Loesshills
• Oak
• Statefair
• Wildrose

Copy freely. One per line or comma-separated pastes straight into the generator's "Your own list" box if you want to add or remove words.

Crossword clues for every word

The same list with a plain-language clue for each word — written for the crossword type, and free to use in a grid you build yourself. Copy the lines as they are (word — clue) into the generator's own-list box and it makes the crossword for you.

• Amanacolonies — Historic Iowa settlements founded by German Pietists in 1855
• Caucus — Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest
• Cornfield — Where the maize grows
• Desmoines — Iowa's capital and largest city, along the Raccoon River
• Easterngoldfinch — Iowa's state bird, a small yellow songbird also called the wild canary
• Fieldofdreams — 1989 baseball movie filmed on an Iowa farm, 'If you build it...'
• Hawkeye — Iowa's nickname, honoring a legendary Native American leader
• Loesshills — Unique windblown-silt ridges along Iowa's western border
• Oak — Sturdy tree whose fruit is the acorn
• Statefair — Iowa's famous August fairground event, known for its butter cow sculpture
• Wildrose — Official state flower of Iowa and North Dakota, with pink five-petaled blooms

A puzzle made from it

Medium difficulty: across, down and diagonals, nothing backwards. Every word appears exactly once — the generator checks the finished grid rather than assuming. Solutions are in the book, not on this page.