North Carolina word search word list
15 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
- Asheville
- Biltmore
- Blueridge
- Charlotte
- Dogwood
- Furniture
- Hurricanes
- Outerbanks
- Panthers
- Pine
- Raleigh
- Tarheel
- Tobacco
- Triangle
- Wright
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.
- Asheville — Mountain city in western North Carolina, near the Biltmore estate
- Biltmore — Enormous Gilded Age mansion near Asheville
- Blueridge — Scenic mountain range and parkway in western North Carolina
- Charlotte — North Carolina's largest city, a major banking center
- Dogwood — Flowering tree with white or pink spring blossoms, common in the South
- Furniture — Industry long centered on High Point, North Carolina
- Hurricanes — Carolina's NHL hockey team
- Outerbanks — Chain of barrier islands off the North Carolina coast
- Panthers — Carolina's NFL football team
- Pine — Evergreen with needles
- Raleigh — North Carolina's capital city
- Tarheel — Nickname for a North Carolina native
- Tobacco — Leaf crop dried and cured for smoking, historically grown in the South
- Triangle — Research park region anchoring three North Carolina universities
- Wright — Brothers who made the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk
A puzzle made from it
- ASHEVILLE
- BILTMORE
- BLUERIDGE
- CHARLOTTE
- DOGWOOD
- FURNITURE
- HURRICANES
- OUTERBANKS
- PANTHERS
- PINE
- RALEIGH
- TARHEEL
- TOBACCO
- TRIANGLE
- WRIGHT
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.
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