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. - 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. - SUBPENTANGULAR
Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular. - 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.