Walnut Creek Word Search
Play a Walnut Creek word search free online. We built the 12-word list around landmarks, neighborhoods, and local flavor, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: WALNUT, CREEK, DIABLO, LARKEY, HEATHER, SHELL, YGNACIO, BANCROFT, MAIN, BROADWAY, ROSSMOOR, PARKMEAD.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Walnut Creek word list, defined
- WALNUT /ˈwɔːlnʌt/ (British); /ˈwɔːlnət/ (American) · noun
- The edible seed of a walnut tree, or the tree itself. The term can also refer to the hard, dark wood used in furniture and decorative work.
- CREEK /kriːk/ · noun
- A narrow, sheltered inlet of the sea along a coastline. In North America and Australia, a small stream or tributary of a river. Related: stream, brook, inlet, rivulet.
- HEATHER /ˈhiːðər/; /ˈhiːðə/ in non-rhotic accents · noun; rare verb
- A low-growing evergreen shrub of the heath family, especially the common heather (Calluna vulgaris), whose small pink, purple, or white flowers often color heathland and moorland. Heather is also used as a traditional feminine given name. Related: heath, ling.
- SHELL /ʃɛl/ · noun, verb
- A shell is a hard or rigid outer covering, especially that of a mollusc, egg, seed, or animal. As a verb, to shell can mean to remove something from its shell, or to fire shells from a weapon or bomb a place with shells. Related: casing, hull, husk, covering.
- MAIN /meɪn/ · adjective, noun, and adverb
- Chief or most important; of greatest significance. As a noun, it means the principal person or thing, or, in literary and nautical usage, the open sea. Related: principal, chief, primary, foremost.
- BROADWAY /ˈbrɔːd.weɪ/ · noun
- A broadway is a wide street or thoroughfare, especially the principal or widest road in a town. Capitalized as Broadway, it refers specifically to the famous avenue in New York City and, by extension, to the American commercial theater centered there. Related: thoroughfare, avenue, boulevard, highway.
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