billowing
Puffing with wind
Billowing describes something swelling outward and undulating, typically from air or wind filling it.
Sails billow when wind catches them; curtains billow through open windows; smoke billows from a chimney.
The word captures both the outward expansion and the wavelike motion.
As a noun, billowing refers to this swelling movement itself.
Her dress was billowing in the breeze.
Billowing clouds of dust rose from the dirt road.
Fine woven insect fiber
- curtainFabric hung for privacy
- draperyOrnamental hanging cloth
- veilFabric that obscures
- chiffonDelicate transparent textile
tulle · gossamer · satin · organza · muslin · sail · parachute · canopy
Increase in size
- surgeSudden powerful increase
- oceanMassive saltwater body
- seaSaltwater body, not ocean
- surfWaves near shore
tide · crest · whitecap · undulate · ripple · roller · breaker · foam
silk
Fine woven insect fiber
chiffon · tulle · gossamer · satin · organza · muslin · sail · parachute · canopy · tent
swell
Increase in size
surf · tide · crest · whitecap · undulate · ripple · roller · breaker · foam · spray
swell
Increase in size
surge · balloon · flutter · ripple · undulate · flow · stream · drift · rise · roll
plume
Ornamental feather or rising column
trail · chimney · bonfire · incense · steam · exhaust · fumes · haze · fog · mist
cumulus
Dense, billowing cloud type
- thunderheadTall storm-producing cloud
- stormSevere atmospheric disturbance
- skyVisible overhead expanse
heavens · formation · mass · white · fluffy · towering · darkening · gathering · rolling · drifting
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- wind actionblowing, gusting, howling, whistling, whipping
- puffing upswelling, bloating, inflating, expanding, ballooning
- smokysmoky, smoking, smoldering, fuming, smoked
- wavy patternswavy line, sine wave, undulation, ripple, ripples
- wind wordsbreeze, gust, draft, gale, squall
billowingstill
Unmoving, or continuing
motionless · limp · drooping · stationary · hanging
billowingflat
Lacking vertical variation
deflated · compressed · constricted · limp · collapsed