Montana word search word list

12 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

• Bigsky
• Billings
• Bison
• Bitterroot
• Elk
• Glacier
• Grizzly
• Helena
• Meadowlark
• Ponderosa
• Rodeo
• Treasure

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.

• Bigsky — Popular nickname for Montana, evoking its wide-open horizons
• Billings — Montana's largest city, named for a railroad executive
• Bison — Shaggy North American plains grazer
• Bitterroot — Montana's state flower, a pink bloom found in dry rocky soil
• Elk — Large deer with sweeping antlers
• Glacier — Slow river of ice
• Grizzly — Large brown bear species found in Montana's wilderness
• Helena — Montana's capital city, founded during an 1864 gold rush
• Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
• Ponderosa — Montana's state tree, a tall pine with thick orange-brown bark
• Rodeo — Competition featuring bull riding and roping
• Treasure — Historic nickname for Montana, from its mining wealth

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.