Missouri 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.
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The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws all 13 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
- Bluebird
- Branson
- Dogwood
- Gatewayarch
- Hawthorn
- Jeffersoncity
- Kansascity
- Lewisclark
- Mule
- Ozarks
- Riverboat
- Showme
- Stlouis
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.
- Bluebird — Sky-coloured songbird of happiness
- Branson — Missouri entertainment town known for live music theaters
- Dogwood — Flowering tree with white or pink spring blossoms, common in the South
- Gatewayarch — 630-foot stainless steel monument in St. Louis
- Hawthorn — Missouri's state flower, a thorny shrub with white spring blossoms
- Jeffersoncity — Capital of Missouri, named for the third U.S. president
- Kansascity — Missouri's largest metro area, known for barbecue and jazz
- Lewisclark — Explorers whose famous western expedition departed near St. Louis
- Mule — Sturdy hybrid offspring of a horse and donkey, used as a farm work animal
- Ozarks — Rugged highland region covering southern Missouri and Arkansas
- Riverboat — Paddle-wheeled vessel once common along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers
- Showme — Nickname for Missouri, from a phrase about needing proof
- Stlouis — Missouri city on the Mississippi River, home to a famous stainless steel arch
A puzzle made from it
- BLUEBIRD
- BRANSON
- DOGWOOD
- GATEWAYARCH
- HAWTHORN
- JEFFERSONCITY
- KANSASCITY
- LEWISCLARK
- MULE
- OZARKS
- RIVERBOAT
- SHOWME
- STLOUIS
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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