Tennessee 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

• Catfish
• Chattanooga
• Graceland
• Iris
• Limestone
• Memphis
• Mockingbird
• Nashville
• Opry
• Smokies
• Tulippoplar
• Volunteer
• Walkinghorse

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.

• Catfish — Whiskered bottom-dwelling river swimmer, popular fried in the South
• Chattanooga — Tennessee city on the Tennessee River, near Lookout Mountain
• Graceland — Elvis Presley's Memphis mansion, now a museum
• Iris — Flower named for the rainbow goddess
• Limestone — Sedimentary rock widely quarried in Tennessee and Indiana for buildings and monuments
• Memphis — Tennessee city on the Mississippi River, home to Elvis Presley's mansion
• Mockingbird — Songster that copies others' tunes
• Nashville — Capital and largest city of Tennessee, nicknamed Music City
• Opry — Nashville's famous country music radio show and venue
• Smokies — Popular Appalachian mountain range and national park in eastern Tennessee
• Tulippoplar — State tree of Tennessee and Kentucky, with bell-shaped greenish-yellow blooms
• Volunteer — Nickname for a Tennessee resident, from the state's Mexican-American War response
• Walkinghorse — Tennessee's state mammal, a smooth-gaited breed known for its show-ring style

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.