West Virginia 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

• Blackwaterfalls
• Cardinal
• Charleston
• Coal
• Countryroads
• Greenbrier
• Mothman
• Mountaineer
• Newrivergorge
• Rhododendron
• Senecarocks
• Spruceknob
• Sugarmaple

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.

• Blackwaterfalls — West Virginia park famous for an amber-tinted cascade tumbling through a gorge
• Cardinal — Bright red crested songbird
• Charleston — Name shared by South Carolina's largest port city and West Virginia's capital
• Coal — Fossil fuel mined extensively in West Virginia's mountains for over a century
• Countryroads — John Denver ballad that made West Virginia's mountain scenery famous nationwide
• Greenbrier — Historic West Virginia luxury resort with a secret Cold War bunker built beneath it
• Mothman — Legendary winged cryptid said to haunt a West Virginia town called Point Pleasant
• Mountaineer — Nickname for West Virginia's people and its major university's sports teams
• Newrivergorge — National park with an ancient waterway and a famous steel arch bridge in West Virginia
• Rhododendron — Official state flower of Washington and West Virginia, a large flowering shrub
• Senecarocks — Dramatic sandstone formation popular with climbers in eastern West Virginia
• Spruceknob — Highest point in West Virginia, topped with wind-sculpted evergreen trees
• Sugarmaple — State tree of Vermont, Wisconsin and West Virginia, tapped in early spring for syrup

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.