The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SWELLS , but the solution may also be BILLOWS which is one of the most recent solution (2012 in Wall Street Journal).
Big waves crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
SWELLS | 33 % | 6 |
TSUNAMIS | 33 % | 8 |
BILLOWS | 33 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Big waves
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- swell
- surf
- wave
- billowing
- gun
- guns
- heave
- high
- horn
- ocean
- roar
- sea
Crossword Answer definitions
SWELLS verb- To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To cause to become bigger.
- To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To be raised to arrogance.
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
- A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A person who dresses in a fancy or elegant manner.
- A person of high social standing; an important person.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SWELLS
- Distends
- Balloons
- High-ranking types
- Puffs up
- Swanky folks
- Big waves
- Fashion plates: Colloq.
- Ultrafashionable people.
- Waves.
- Stylish ones: Colloq.
More clues leading to the result TSUNAMIS
- Waves to fear
- Seismic sea waves
- Fast-moving waves
- Big waves
- Scary waves
- Dangerous waves
- Pressure sensors attached to buoys are parts of their warning systems
- Devastating waves
- Big waves miss tuna at sea (8)
- Waves with long wavelengths?