Alabama Word Search
Alabama joined the United States in 1819 and put its capital at Montgomery. Cotton fields, pine forests and a short stretch of Gulf coast shape the state, and the words here follow that ground.
Alabama word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- beach
- catfish
- cotton
- dogwood
- magnolia
- mobile
- peanut
- pecan
- river
- rocket
Alabama word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- beach
- birmingham
- camellia
- catfish
- cotton
- dogwood
- gulf coast
- huntsville
- magnolia
- mobile
- montgomery
- peanut
- pecan
- river
- rocket
Alabama word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- beach
- birmingham
- camellia
- catfish
- cotton
- dogwood
- gulf coast
- huntsville
- longleaf pine
- magnolia
- mobile
- montgomery
- okra
- peanut
- pecan
- river
- rocket
- selma
- tuscaloosa
- yellowhammer
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Words in the Alabama word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- cotton
- A leading Alabama crop for generations, spun into thread and cloth.
- river
- Alabama has more miles of navigable rivers than most states.
- beach
- White sand shores line Alabama's short stretch of Gulf coastline.
- peanut
- A ground-growing legume harvested across Alabama's southern farm counties.
- pecan
- A native nut from tall trees, used in pies and candy.
- catfish
- A whiskered fish raised in Alabama ponds and often served fried.
- rocket
- Rockets for NASA were designed and tested in Huntsville, Alabama.
- mobile
- A port city on Mobile Bay, Alabama's only saltwater harbor.
- magnolia
- A southern tree with thick leaves and large white blossoms.
- dogwood
- A small tree whose white spring flowers open before the leaves.
- montgomery
- The capital of Alabama, set beside the Alabama River.
- birmingham
- Alabama's largest city, built up around iron and steel.
- huntsville
- A north Alabama city known for rockets and space research.
- camellia
- Alabama's state flower, a winter-blooming shrub with waxy petals.
- gulf coast
- Alabama's shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico, about sixty miles long.
- yellowhammer
- A nickname for the yellow-shafted flicker, Alabama's state bird.
- tuscaloosa
- A city on the Black Warrior River with a large university.
- okra
- A green pod vegetable common in southern gardens and gumbo.
- selma
- An Alabama city central to the 1965 voting rights marches.
- longleaf pine
- Alabama's state tree, a tall pine with long needle bundles.
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