Nevada 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

• Battleborn
• Bristlecone
• Carsoncity
• Hooverdam
• Laketahoe
• Lasvegas
• Mojave
• Mountainbluebird
• Redrock
• Reno
• Sagebrush
• Silverstate

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.

• Battleborn — Phrase on Nevada's flag, marking its Civil War-era statehood
• Bristlecone — Nevada tree species among the oldest living things on Earth
• Carsoncity — Nevada's capital, overshadowed in fame by the state's famous gambling hub
• Hooverdam — Massive concrete structure on the Nevada-Arizona border, built in the 1930s
• Laketahoe — Deep alpine body of water on the California-Nevada line
• Lasvegas — Nevada's glittering desert city famous for casinos and neon lights
• Mojave — Vast North American desert stretching across southern Nevada
• Mountainbluebird — Small azure songster of high western elevations, state emblem for Nevada and Idaho
• Redrock — Crimson-hued canyon conservation area near Las Vegas
• Reno — Nevada city nicknamed 'The Biggest Little City in the World'
• Sagebrush — Silvery desert shrub that is Nevada's official state flower
• Silverstate — Nevada's nickname, from historic mining booms in the 1800s

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.