Nebraska 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
- Arborday
- Bison
- Chimneyrock
- Cornhusker
- Cottonwood
- Goldenrod
- Lincoln
- Meadowlark
- Omaha
- Platte
- Sandhills
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.
- Arborday — Annual tree-planting holiday founded in Nebraska in 1872
- Bison — Shaggy North American plains grazer
- Chimneyrock — Famous spire-shaped landmark that guided 19th-century wagon trains west
- Cornhusker — Nickname for Nebraska's people, from old hand-harvesting days
- Cottonwood — State tree of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, a fast-growing tree with heart-shaped leaves
- Goldenrod — State flower of Kentucky and Nebraska, a plant with tall yellow blooms in fall
- Lincoln — Nebraska's capital city; the 16th president also lends his name to Illinois's nickname
- Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
- Omaha — Nebraska's largest city, home to a famous annual investor shareholder meeting
- Platte — Major river flowing across Nebraska, historically shallow and wide
- Sandhills — Vast dune-grass region covering much of north-central Nebraska
A puzzle made from it
- ARBORDAY
- BISON
- CHIMNEYROCK
- CORNHUSKER
- COTTONWOOD
- GOLDENROD
- LINCOLN
- MEADOWLARK
- OMAHA
- PLATTE
- SANDHILLS
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 Nebraska 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.