South Carolina 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

• Carolinawren
• Charleston
• Columbia
• Fortsumter
• Gullah
• Hiltonhead
• Jessamine
• Lowcountry
• Magnolia
• Palmetto
• Rice
• Shrimp
• Sweetgrass

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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.

• Carolinawren — This state's official bird, a small reddish-brown songbird known for a loud, ringing song
• Charleston — Name shared by South Carolina's largest port city and West Virginia's capital
• Columbia — Capital and second-largest city of South Carolina, named for Christopher Columbus
• Fortsumter — Charleston harbor stronghold where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861
• Gullah — Descendants of enslaved West Africans with a distinct language and culture on this coast
• Hiltonhead — South Carolina resort island known for golf courses and beaches
• Jessamine — South Carolina's flower, a fragrant yellow vine often confused with a similar plant
• Lowcountry — Coastal region of South Carolina known for marshes, plantations, and historic port cities
• Magnolia — Tree with big waxy blooms
• Palmetto — Fan-shaped tree species that is the official state tree of both Florida and South Carolina
• Rice — Grain crop historically grown in Lowcountry marshes, once a major Southern export
• Shrimp — Small curved shellfish for cocktails
• Sweetgrass — Coiled baskets woven by Gullah artisans from a native coastal reed

A puzzle made from it

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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