Colorado Buffaloes Word Search
Colorado Buffaloes (NCAA), as a word search. 12 words drawn from nicknames, arena or stadium names, and rivalry terms sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.
Plays in the NCAA · Based in Boulder.
Words to find: BUFFALOES, BISON, RALPHIE, CHIP, RHYDIAN, CUBS, FOLSOM, BOULDER, COLORADO, FLATIRONS, MOUNTSOPRIS, PEARLSTREET.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Colorado Buffaloes word list, defined
General dictionary meanings, not specific to this puzzle's theme.
- BUFFALOES /ˈbʌfəloʊz/ · noun
- The plural of buffalo: large wild cattle-like mammals of the genus Bubalus (water buffalo) or Syncerus (Cape buffalo), and, in North American usage, the bison. Related: bison, cattle, bovines.
- BISON /ˈbaɪsən/ · noun
- A large wild bovine mammal with a massive head, shoulder hump, and shaggy coat; specifically the American bison of North America or the closely related European bison (wisent). Related: buffalo, wisent.
- CHIP /tʃɪp/ · noun, verb
- A small piece broken or cut off from a larger object; also a thin slice of fried potato (US) or a small electronic circuit (as in a microchip). Related: fragment, flake, sliver, shard.
- BOULDER /ˈboʊldər/ · noun
- A large rounded rock, typically one that has been worn smooth by erosion or transported and deposited by glacial action. In geology, the term is technically restricted to rock fragments larger than about 25 centimeters (roughly 10 inches) in diameter. Related: rock, stone, boulder stone, crag.
- COLORADO /ˌkɒləˈrɑːdoʊ/ · noun
- A state in the western United States, in the Rocky Mountain region; also a major river of the southwestern US and northern Mexico that rises in the Rocky Mountains and flows into the Gulf of California. Related: Centennial State.
- FLATIRONS /ˈflætˌaɪərnz/ · noun (plural)
- Flatirons are heavy, wedge-shaped irons for pressing clothes, heated on a stove before use; the capitalized form also names the iconic slanted sandstone formations near Boulder, Colorado. Related: sadiron, smoothing iron, clothes iron, pressing iron.
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