West Virginia 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
- Blackwaterfalls
- Cardinal
- Charleston
- Coal
- Countryroads
- Greenbrier
- Mothman
- Mountaineer
- Newrivergorge
- Rhododendron
- Senecarocks
- Spruceknob
- Sugarmaple
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.
- Blackwaterfalls — West Virginia park famous for an amber-tinted cascade tumbling through a gorge
- Cardinal — Bright red crested songbird
- Charleston — Name shared by South Carolina's largest port city and West Virginia's capital
- Coal — Fossil fuel mined extensively in West Virginia's mountains for over a century
- Countryroads — John Denver ballad that made West Virginia's mountain scenery famous nationwide
- Greenbrier — Historic West Virginia luxury resort with a secret Cold War bunker built beneath it
- Mothman — Legendary winged cryptid said to haunt a West Virginia town called Point Pleasant
- Mountaineer — Nickname for West Virginia's people and its major university's sports teams
- Newrivergorge — National park with an ancient waterway and a famous steel arch bridge in West Virginia
- Rhododendron — Official state flower of Washington and West Virginia, a large flowering shrub
- Senecarocks — Dramatic sandstone formation popular with climbers in eastern West Virginia
- Spruceknob — Highest point in West Virginia, topped with wind-sculpted evergreen trees
- Sugarmaple — State tree of Vermont, Wisconsin and West Virginia, tapped in early spring for syrup
A puzzle made from it
- BLACKWATERFALLS
- CARDINAL
- CHARLESTON
- COAL
- COUNTRYROADS
- GREENBRIER
- MOTHMAN
- MOUNTAINEER
- NEWRIVERGORGE
- RHODODENDRON
- SENECAROCKS
- SPRUCEKNOB
- SUGARMAPLE
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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