And it’s free, though for a whopping $3 you can get a PDF and also be able to edit the puzzle - a price that fits even the Invite budget. It even lets you make the accompanying list consist of clues rather than the actual words. So then I took my little list to, an unshowy but very useful site that welcomes teachers and anyone else to instantly construct both simple crosswords and word search puzzles with a given list of words. I’m happy to entertain suggestions, especially ones with a couple of persuasive examples. Seems to me that there’s a contest or two hiding in there somewhere.
along with a slew of name generators, from Boat Name Generator to Elf Name Generator. The Random Word Generator site also offers Fake Word Generator, Noun Generator, Adjective Generator, Verb Generator, Word Generators for Games, Pictionary Word Generator, Charades Generator, Sentence & Letter Generators, Random Sentence Generator and Random Letter Generator. Rampantly, forcefully and without restraint
Usually it’s used as a passive verb: “The room was suffused with sunlight.” Suffusion, the spreading of something (light, a color, etc.) across an area. Instructorship, just the state of being an instructor, it seems Hachure, or cross-hatching, the drawing technique of shading with crossed linesįelicify, to make happy (this word seems to be entirely obsolete) Parsiism, the faith of a Zoroastrian sect in India
But here are the words I used, with definitions from various online sources: Unfortunately, I forgot to copy them out as they appeared. Of course, those words appear in straight lines (though forward and backward), as real word search puzzles have them I let you snake through the grid so that you’ll have many more choices - and there are many.įortunately, the anonymous creator of Random Word Generator provides a definition for each word as it pops up. Then I fed those into the puzzle maker, and voila - a couple of seconds later, the handy-dandy grid for use in this contest. Today’s Style Invitational word-find neologism contest, Week 1216, is brought to you once again with the help of two super-helpful tools: the Random Word Generator at and the Instant Online Word Search Puzzle Maker at .Īs I did in our two previous contests featuring a word-find grid, I first went to the word generator and clicked repeatedly on “Generate Random Words,” writing them down until I had a long enough list - this year, 20 words - to get a word search grid that would fit nicely on the print page of this week’s Invite.