Iowa word search word list
11 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell.
Runs in your browser — nothing you type leaves your computer. No sign-up. $19 once removes the PREVIEW cover mark; 30-day refund, no questions.
The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws all 11 words into a single 15×15 puzzle. A list this size makes one puzzle, not a book — the theme picker is checkboxes, so tick a second list alongside this one and the generator will build as many different puzzles as the combined list allows.
The list
- Amanacolonies
- Caucus
- Cornfield
- Desmoines
- Easterngoldfinch
- Fieldofdreams
- Hawkeye
- Loesshills
- Oak
- Statefair
- Wildrose
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.
- Amanacolonies — Historic Iowa settlements founded by German Pietists in 1855
- Caucus — Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential nominating contest
- Cornfield — Where the maize grows
- Desmoines — Iowa's capital and largest city, along the Raccoon River
- Easterngoldfinch — Iowa's state bird, a small yellow songbird also called the wild canary
- Fieldofdreams — 1989 baseball movie filmed on an Iowa farm, 'If you build it...'
- Hawkeye — Iowa's nickname, honoring a legendary Native American leader
- Loesshills — Unique windblown-silt ridges along Iowa's western border
- Oak — Sturdy tree whose fruit is the acorn
- Statefair — Iowa's famous August fairground event, known for its butter cow sculpture
- Wildrose — Official state flower of Iowa and North Dakota, with pink five-petaled blooms
A puzzle made from it
- AMANACOLONIES
- CAUCUS
- CORNFIELD
- DESMOINES
- FIELDOFDREAMS
- HAWKEYE
- LOESSHILLS
- OAK
- STATEFAIR
- WILDROSE
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.
Turn it into a book
Puzzle Press makes the whole paperback for Amazon KDP — word search or criss-cross fill-in, this theme or several mixed, graded easy to hard if you like, solutions at the back, margins and page count to KDP's rules — then the cover. Free to use; free books have unmarked pages and a cover marked PREVIEW, and $19 once removes that.
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