Kentucky word search word list

13 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

• Appalachian
• Bluegrass
• Bourbon
• Cardinal
• Colonel
• Derby
• Frankfort
• Goldenrod
• Lexington
• Louisville
• Mammothcave
• Thoroughbred
• Tulippoplar

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.

• Appalachian — Ancient mountain range running through the eastern United States
• Bluegrass — Nickname for Kentucky, tied to its rolling turf and old-time string music
• Bourbon — Kentucky's distinctive corn-based whiskey
• Cardinal — Bright red crested songbird
• Colonel — Honorary Kentucky title, famously used by the founder of a fried chicken chain
• Derby — Annual Kentucky horse race held the first Saturday in May
• Frankfort — Capital city of Kentucky
• Goldenrod — State flower of Kentucky and Nebraska, a plant with tall yellow blooms in fall
• Lexington — Kentucky city known as the horse capital of the world
• Louisville — Kentucky's largest city, on the Ohio River
• Mammothcave — Kentucky's underground national park, the longest known network of passages on Earth
• Thoroughbred — Prized racehorse breed known for speed, central to Kentucky's horse industry
• Tulippoplar — State tree of Tennessee and Kentucky, with bell-shaped greenish-yellow 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.