Nebraska 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

• Arborday
• Bison
• Chimneyrock
• Cornhusker
• Cottonwood
• Goldenrod
• Lincoln
• Meadowlark
• Omaha
• Platte
• Sandhills

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.

• Arborday — Annual tree-planting holiday founded in Nebraska in 1872
• Bison — Shaggy North American plains grazer
• Chimneyrock — Famous spire-shaped landmark that guided 19th-century wagon trains west
• Cornhusker — Nickname for Nebraska's people, from old hand-harvesting days
• Cottonwood — State tree of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, a fast-growing riverside tree with heart-shaped leaves
• Goldenrod — State flower of Kentucky and Nebraska, a plant with tall yellow blooms in fall
• Lincoln — Nebraska's capital city; the 16th president also lends his name to Illinois's nickname
• Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
• Omaha — Nebraska's largest city, home to a famous annual investor shareholder meeting
• Platte — Major river flowing across Nebraska, historically shallow and wide
• Sandhills — Vast dune-grass region covering much of north-central Nebraska

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.