Synonyms of the word

tress

• n. A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
• n. (by extension) A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
• v. To braid or knot hair.

braid

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
• v. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
• v. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
• v. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
• n. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench.
• n. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
• n. A fancy; freak; caprice.
• adj. (obsolete) deceitful.

coif

• n. A hairdo.
• n. A hood; a close-fitting cap covering much of the head, widespread until XVIII century; after that worn…
• n. An item of chain mail headgear.
• n. An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
• v. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.

coiffure

• n. hairstyle.
• v. (transitive) to style or arrange hair.

hairdo

• n. A hairstyle.
• n. A haircut.

hairstyle

• n. The style in which someone's hair has been cut and arranged.

plait

• n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
• n. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
• v. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat.
• v. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid;.

twist

• n. A twisting force.
• n. Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
• n. The form given in twisting.
• n. The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
• n. A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
• n. A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
• n. A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
• n. A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
• n. An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
• n. A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See.
• n. A rotation of the body when diving.
• n. A sprain, especially to the ankle.
• n. (obsolete) A twig.
• n. (slang) A girl, a woman.
• n. (obsolete) A roll of twisted dough, baked.
• n. A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
• n. The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A beverage made of brandy and gin.
• n. A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
• v. To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
• v. To join together by twining one part around another.
• v. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
• v. To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
• v. (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
• v. To turn a knob etc.
• v. To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
• v. To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
• v. To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
• v. (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
• v. (transitive) To cause to rotate.
• v. (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
• v. (transitive) To coax.
• v. (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.