South Carolina word search word list

13 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

• Carolinawren
• Charleston
• Columbia
• Fortsumter
• Gullah
• Hiltonhead
• Jessamine
• Lowcountry
• Magnolia
• Palmetto
• Rice
• Shrimp
• Sweetgrass

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.

• Carolinawren — This state's official bird, a small reddish-brown songbird known for a loud, ringing song
• Charleston — Name shared by South Carolina's largest port city and West Virginia's capital
• Columbia — Capital and second-largest city of South Carolina, named for Christopher Columbus
• Fortsumter — Charleston harbor stronghold where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861
• Gullah — Descendants of enslaved West Africans with a distinct language and culture on this coast
• Hiltonhead — South Carolina resort island known for golf courses and beaches
• Jessamine — South Carolina's flower, a fragrant yellow vine often confused with a similar plant
• Lowcountry — Coastal region of South Carolina known for marshes, plantations, and historic port cities
• Magnolia — Tree with big waxy blooms
• Palmetto — Fan-shaped tree species that is the official state tree of both Florida and South Carolina
• Rice — Grain crop historically grown in Lowcountry marshes, once a major Southern export
• Shrimp — Small curved shellfish for cocktails
• Sweetgrass — Coiled baskets woven by Gullah artisans from a native coastal reed

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.