Word Meanings - ANFRACTUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a born. -- An*frac"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind, bend; an-, for amb- +

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ANFRACTUOUS)

• Ambagious
• Tortuous
• indirect
• anfractuous
• circumlocutory
• circuitous
• periphrastic
• ambiguous
• unintelligible
• pointless
• disjointed
• Crooked
• Bent
• incurved
• angular
• deformed
• bowed
• disfigured
• turned
• curved
• awry
• tortuous
• underhanded
• Serpentine
• Winding
• meandering
• undulating
• sinuous
• anguilliform
• vermicular
• coiled
• Devious
• complicated
• deceitful
• crooked
• twisting
• sinister
• indexed

Related words: (words related to ANFRACTUOUS)

• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• INDEXICAL
  Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• BOW OAR
  . 1. The oar used by the bowman. 2. One who rows at the bow of a boat.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• BOWKNOT
  A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• SERPENTINELY
  In a serpentine manner.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• TURN
  1. The act of turning; movement or motion about, or as if about, a center or axis; revolution; as, the turn of a wheel. 2. Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the
• BOWYER
  1. An archer; one who uses bow. 2. One who makes or sells bows.
• RE-TURN
  To turn again.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
• SUBPENTANGULAR
  Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.
• CHOKING COIL
  A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in an alternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or to change its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• DISEMBOWERED
  Deprived of, or removed from, a bower. Bryant.
• NOCTURNAL
  1. Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden. 2. Having a habit of seeking food or moving about at night; as, nocturnal birds and insects.
• BOWGE
  To swell out. See Bouge.
• EMBOWL
  To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. Sir P. Sidney.