North Dakota word search word list
19 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 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
- Badlands
- Bismarck
- Chokecherry
- Curling
- Elm
- Fargo
- Flickertail
- Flint
- Ladybug
- Meadowlark
- Milk
- Nokotahorse
- Northernpike
- Peacegarden
- Redriver
- Rhubarb
- Roughrider
- Sunflower
- 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.
- Badlands — Eroded rock formations preserved in parkland in both South Dakota and North Dakota
- Bismarck — North Dakota's capital, named for a 19th-century German chancellor
- Chokecherry — Tart wild fruit, North Dakota's state fruit
- Curling — Sliding stones on ice with brooms
- Elm — Tall shade tree, official state tree of Massachusetts and North Dakota
- Fargo — North Dakota's largest city, also the title of a Coen brothers film set nearby
- Flickertail — Historic nickname for North Dakota, referencing a common prairie ground squirrel
- Flint — Knife River ___, North Dakota's state rock
- Ladybug — Red beetle with black spots
- Meadowlark — State bird of Oregon, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota
- Milk — White splash added to the cup
- Nokotahorse — Badlands breed, North Dakota's honorary equine
- Northernpike — Toothy lake predator, state fish of the Peace Garden State
- Peacegarden — Flower-filled memorial straddling the U.S.-Canada border, partly in North Dakota
- Redriver — Northward-flowing waterway forming North Dakota's eastern border with Minnesota
- Rhubarb — Tart pie stalk, North Dakota's state vegetable
- Roughrider — ___ State, a North Dakota nickname from Roosevelt's cavalry
- Sunflower — Tall bloom that follows the sun
- Wildrose — Official state flower of Iowa and North Dakota, with pink five-petaled blooms
A puzzle made from it
- BADLANDS
- BISMARCK
- CHOKECHERRY
- CURLING
- FARGO
- FLICKERTAIL
- LADYBUG
- MEADOWLARK
- MILK
- NORTHERNPIKE
- PEACEGARDEN
- RHUBARB
- ROUGHRIDER
- SUNFLOWER
- 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.
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