billow
Sail catches wind
A billow is a large, rolling wave or surge, especially of the sea.
The word extends to anything that swells and rolls similarly: billows of smoke, billows of fabric.
As a verb, to billow is to swell outward with air or movement: The curtains billowed in the wind, Her dress billowed as she walked.
Ornamental feather or rising column
- cloudAtmospheric water vapor mass
- puffBrief burst of air
- columnVertical structural element
- wispThin, delicate trace
haze · drift · curl · stream · trail · chimney · exhaust · incense
swell
Increase in size
inflate · balloon · bulge · rise · heave · undulate · ripple · flutter · flap · roll
swell
Increase in size
undulate · foam · whitecap · breaker · ocean · sea · tide · current · ripple · surf
plume
Ornamental feather or rising column
wisp · haze · drift · curl · stream · trail · chimney · exhaust · incense · fog
cumulus
Dense, billowing cloud type
- thunderheadTall storm-producing cloud
- plumeOrnamental feather or rising column
- puffBrief burst of air
mass · drift · column · bank · formation · wisp · swirl · mushroom · tower · bloom
curtain
Fabric hung for privacy
skirt · veil · canopy · parachute · flag · banner · tent · cloak · gown · train
- bulgesbump, hump, knob, lump, mound
- size changesenlarge, enlargement, expand, expansion, shrink
- cloud shapespuff, wisp, cumulus, cirrus, stratus
- fluid movementsflow, glide, sway, ripple, undulate
- wavy patternswavy line, sine wave, undulation, ripple, ripples
- fabric movementsdrape, flow, flutter, ripple, sway