adj
Alternative form of anfractuous [sinuous, twisty, winding.]
adj
sinuous, twisty, winding.
n
(obsolete) A mazy winding.
adj
Containing many bends and twists.
n
Anything winding or sinuous.
adj
In the form of coils; having coils.
adj
Having coils; coiling.
adj
(chiefly anatomy, zoology) Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; convolute.
adj
Having the power of contracting into wrinkles.
n
The process of corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
adj
Of a liquid: eddying or whirling.
adj
winding from side to side; sinuous
n
A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
adj
Moving circularly or spirally; gyratory; whirling.
adj
Having a coiled structure that is itself coiled around a larger axis
n
A meander (an erosion of a river bed) in a region that undergoes tectonic uplift subsequent to the action that caused the initial meander.
adj
Having an irregular, uneven; sinuous; undulating.
n
A winding, bending, or twisting.
v
to twist and wind, following a labyrinthine path
adj
Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.
adj
Alternative form of labyrinthal [Like a maze or labyrinth, intricate or convoluted. labyrinthine.]
adj
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
adj
Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
n
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
n
(geography) one of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
adv
In a meandering or winding manner.
adj
(obsolete) winding, having many turns.
adj
(mathematics) Relating to a meander.
adj
(biology, geology) Winding and convoluted.
adj
(obsolete, rare) meandering; windy
v
Rare spelling of meander. [(intransitive) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.]
n
Archaic spelling of meander. [One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.]
adj
Alternative form of obvolute [overlapping; contorted; convoluted]
n
The act of plantarflexing.
n
A curving again, or back on itself; a meander.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
v
(archaic) To serpentize; to turn or bend; to meander.
v
(intransitive) To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander.
v
To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out
n
The act of sinuating, or property of being sinuous.
adj
Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
v
(statistics) To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
n
A term or turn of phrase, such as a euphemism, that puts a positive or negative slant on something.
n
A twisting, serpentine layout or motion.
adj
Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
n
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
adj
Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
n
(geometry) A reversal of handedness in helical curves.
n
(mechanics) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
adj
Relating to torsion; twisting.
adj
(often figuratively) Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
n
A twisting, twining pattern or motion.
adj
Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
n
A defence mechanism, in some animals, in which they roll themselves up in a ball.
v
(medicine) to twist or form a knot
adv
In the manner of a wave.
n
(especially in the plural) Curving or bending movement, twists and turns.
adv
With a winding motion or pattern.
adj
Characterised or marked by winding
adj
(of a path etc) Having many bends; winding, twisting or tortuous.
n
(behavioral science) A variant of the T-maze, having the junction shaped like the letter Y.
adj
winding, twisting, turning or sinuous
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