New Hampshire 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
- Birch
- Concord
- Granite
- Lilac
- Livefree
- Manchester
- Moose
- Mountwashington
- Portsmouth
- Purplefinch
- Whitemountains
- Winnipesaukee
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.
- Birch — New Hampshire's state tree, known for its papery white bark
- Concord — New Hampshire's capital city, seat of state government since 1808
- Granite — Rock quarried extensively in New Hampshire, source of its nickname
- Lilac — Shrub with purple spring clusters, New Hampshire's state flower
- Livefree — First two words of New Hampshire's famous 'or die' motto
- Manchester — New Hampshire's largest city, on the Merrimack River
- Moose — Largest deer, with broad flat antlers
- Mountwashington — Highest peak in the northeastern U.S., famous for extreme weather records
- Portsmouth — Historic New Hampshire seacoast city with a naval shipyard
- Purplefinch — New Hampshire's state bird, a small raspberry-red songbird of eastern woodlands
- Whitemountains — Rugged range covering the northern third of New Hampshire
- Winnipesaukee — New Hampshire's largest lake, ringed by mountains
A puzzle made from it
- BIRCH
- CONCORD
- GRANITE
- LILAC
- LIVEFREE
- MANCHESTER
- MOOSE
- MOUNTWASHINGTON
- PORTSMOUTH
- PURPLEFINCH
- WHITEMOUNTAINS
- WINNIPESAUKEE
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.
Turn it into a book
Puzzle Press makes the whole paperback for Amazon KDP — word search or criss-cross fill-in, this theme or several mixed, graded easy to hard if you like, solutions at the back, margins and page count to KDP's rules — then the cover. Free to use; the free book is watermarked and $19 once removes the mark.
Make a New Hampshire word search book free