Oregon 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

• Beaver
• Coastline
• Craterlake
• Douglasfir
• Meadowlark
• Mounthood
• Oregongrape
• Pinotnoir
• Portland
• Salem
• Timber
• Willamette

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.

• Beaver — Dam-building rodent with a flat tail
• Coastline — Oregon's entire Pacific shore, which is by law open to the public
• Craterlake — Oregon's deep blue body of water formed inside a collapsed volcano
• Douglasfir — Towering evergreen conifer, Oregon's official state tree and a timber industry staple
• Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska and Montana, with a flute-like prairie song
• Mounthood — Oregon's tallest peak, a dormant volcano visible from Portland
• Oregongrape — State flower emblem: an evergreen shrub with holly-like leaves and yellow blooms
• Pinotnoir — Cool-climate red wine grape that thrives in Oregon's Willamette Valley
• Portland — Oregon's largest city, nicknamed the City of Roses
• Salem — Capital city of Oregon
• Timber — Word for harvested wood, central to Oregon's forest economy
• Willamette — Fertile river valley running through western Oregon, home to Salem and Portland

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.