Montana word search word list
12 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 12 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
- Bigsky
- Billings
- Bison
- Bitterroot
- Elk
- Glacier
- Grizzly
- Helena
- Meadowlark
- Ponderosa
- Rodeo
- Treasure
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.
- Bigsky — Popular nickname for Montana, evoking its wide-open horizons
- Billings — Montana's largest city, named for a railroad executive
- Bison — Shaggy North American plains grazer
- Bitterroot — Montana's state flower, a pink bloom found in dry rocky soil
- Elk — Large deer with sweeping antlers
- Glacier — Slow river of ice
- Grizzly — Large brown bear species found in Montana's wilderness
- Helena — Montana's capital city, founded during an 1864 gold rush
- Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
- Ponderosa — Montana's state tree, a tall pine with thick orange-brown bark
- Rodeo — Competition featuring bull riding and roping
- Treasure — Historic nickname for Montana, from its mining wealth
A puzzle made from it
- BIGSKY
- BILLINGS
- BISON
- BITTERROOT
- ELK
- GLACIER
- GRIZZLY
- HELENA
- MEADOWLARK
- PONDEROSA
- RODEO
- TREASURE
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.
Make a Montana word search book freeMore word lists
All free the same way. The theme picker is checkboxes — tick more than one and the generator draws from the combined list.