North Dakota word search word list

10 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

• Badlands
• Bismarck
• Elm
• Fargo
• Flickertail
• Meadowlark
• Peacegarden
• Redriver
• Sunflower
• Wildrose

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.

• Badlands — Dramatically eroded rock formations preserved in national parkland in both South Dakota and North Dakota
• Bismarck — North Dakota's capital, named for a 19th-century German chancellor
• Elm — Tall shade tree, official state tree of Massachusetts and North Dakota
• Fargo — North Dakota's largest city, also the title of a Coen brothers film set nearby
• Flickertail — Historic nickname for North Dakota, referencing a common prairie ground squirrel
• Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
• Peacegarden — Flower-filled memorial straddling the U.S.-Canada border, partly in North Dakota
• Redriver — Northward-flowing waterway forming North Dakota's eastern border with Minnesota
• Sunflower — Tall bloom that follows the sun
• Wildrose — Official state flower of Iowa and North Dakota, with pink five-petaled blooms

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.