Answer to "Billows" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HEAVES which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2014.

Billows crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
HEAVES	67 %	6
SURGES	33 %	6

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Billows

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• inflate
• surge
• wallow
• heave
• balloon
• plumes
• wisps
• puffs
• belches
• cumulus cloud
• swirls
• enveloping

Crossword Answer definitions

HEAVES noun

1. An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
2. An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
3. A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
4. The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
5. An effort to vomit; retching.
6. (only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
7. A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory

HEAVES verb

1. To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
2. To throw, cast.
3. To rise and fall.
4. To utter with effort.
5. To pull up with a rope or cable.
6. To lift (generally); to raise, or cause to move upwards (particularly in ships or vehicles) or forwards.
7. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
8. To displace (a vein, stratum).
9. To cause to swell or rise, especially in repeated exertions.
10. To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
11. To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
12. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
13. To rob; to steal from; to plunder.

HEAVES noun

1. A period of retching.
2. A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing; broken wind.

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 HEAVES

• Rides the swells
• Chucks
• Hoists
• Equine affliction.
• Hoists.
• Lifts and throws.
• Throws.
• Casts, nautically.
• Tosses.
• Tosses

More clues leading to the result SURGES

• Billows
• Voltage spikes
• Sudden increases
• Swells
• Strong swells
• Has momentum
• Heaves.
• Seas.
• Electrical phenomena
• Wells forth