Cars & Driving word search word list

50 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 hundreds of different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 100-puzzle book comes to 124 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Accelerate
• Airbag
• Alternator
• Axle
• Battery
• Brakes
• Bumper
• Cabin
• Carburetor
• Chassis
• Clutch
• Convertible
• Coolant
• Dashboard
• Detour
• Diesel
• Engine
• Exhaust
• Fender
• Freeway
• Garage
• Gasoline
• Gearbox
• Headlight
• Highway
• Hubcap
• Ignition
• Junction
• Lanes
• Mileage
• Mirror
• Motor
• Muffler
• Odometer
• Parking
• Pistons
• Radiator
• Roadster
• Seatbelt
• Sedan
• Signal
• Spoiler
• Steering
• Suspension
• Throttle
• Tires
• Traffic
• Transmission
• Trunk
• Wipers

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.

• Accelerate — Speed up
• Airbag — Cushion that inflates in a crash
• Alternator — Charges the battery while driving
• Axle — Rod the wheels turn on
• Battery — Stores the electrical charge
• Brakes — They slow you down
• Bumper — Bar at the front and rear
• Cabin — Small wooden house, or the inside of a car
• Carburetor — Mixes fuel with air in old engines
• Chassis — Frame of the vehicle
• Clutch — Pedal pressed to change gear
• Convertible — Car with a folding roof
• Coolant — Liquid that stops overheating
• Dashboard — Panel of dials facing the driver
• Detour — Route around a closed road
• Diesel — Heavier fuel for trucks
• Engine — What is under the hood
• Exhaust — Pipe for waste gases
• Fender — Panel over the wheel, American style
• Freeway — Fast multi-lane road
• Garage — Where the car sleeps
• Gasoline — Petrol
• Gearbox — Transmission housing
• Headlight — Front lamp
• Highway — Major road between cities
• Hubcap — Cover on the wheel centre
• Ignition — Where the key turns
• Junction — Where roads meet
• Lanes — Marked strips of a road
• Mileage — Distance a car has travelled
• Mirror — Glass for the view behind
• Motor — Engine
• Muffler — Silencer on the exhaust
• Odometer — Dial that counts the miles
• Parking — Leaving the car in a space
• Pistons — They pump inside the cylinders
• Radiator — Cools the engine
• Roadster — Two-seat open sports car
• Seatbelt — Strap that holds you in
• Sedan — Family car with a separate boot, saloon
• Signal — Blinking indicator
• Spoiler — Wing on the back of a sports car
• Steering — Wheel that turns the car
• Suspension — Springs that smooth the ride
• Throttle — Accelerator
• Tires — Rubber round the wheels
• Traffic — Cars on the road, especially too many
• Transmission — Gears between engine and wheels
• Trunk — Boot, in America
• Wipers — Blades that clear the windscreen

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.