comber, breaker, roller – A long curving wave is a comber, a wave that curls over and dissolves into foam is a breaker, and a long wave moving steadily shoreward is a roller. More…
scend – As a noun, it is the surge of a wave or the sea; as a verb, it means to pitch or surge up in a heavy sea. More…
undulate – From Latin unda, “wave.” More…
wave – Meaning “movement of the sea,” it seems to be an alteration of the earlier wawe, “wave,” from Old English woeg, “motion, wave.” More…