Making waves is a phrase that is used to describe when someone or something causes a disturbance or stirs up controversy. The crossword solutions for the term make waves are PERM (4 letters), SPLASH (6 letters), MARCEL (6 letters), CURL (4 letters), EMIT (4 letters), RILE (4 letters), SLOSH (5 letters), RIPPLE (6 letters), PERTURB (7 letters), UNDULATE (8 letters), CAUSEASTIR (10 letters), EXASPERATE (10 letters), ROCKTHEBOAT (11 letters), and ABIGDEALOUTOFIT (15 letters). These words all describe actions that can cause a disturbance or stir up controversy, such as curling, splashing, marcelling, emitting, riling, sloshing, rippling, perturbing, undulating, causing a stir, exasperating, rocking the boat, and making a big deal out of it.