Synonyms of the word

winding

• v. present participle of wind.
• n. something wound around something else.
• n. the manner in which something is wound.
• n. one complete turn of something wound.
• n. (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
• adj. twisting, turning or sinuous.
• adj. spiral or helical.
• v. present participle of wind.
• n. the act or process of winding (turning around).

crooked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
• adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
• adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
• adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

indirect

• adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

meandering

• v. present participle of meander.
• adj. winding or rambling.
• n. An instance or period or roaming.

rambling

• v. present participle of ramble.
• adj. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
• adj. Confused and irregular; awkward.
• n. A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
• n. A gentle hike.

rotation

• n. (chiefly uncountable) The act of turning around a centre or an axis.
• n. A single complete cycle around a centre or an axis.
• n. A regular variation in a sequence.
• n. (mathematics, geometry) An operation on a metric space that is a continuous isometry and fixes at least…
• n. (baseball) The set of starting of a team.
• n. (aviation) The step during takeoff when the pilot commands the vehicle to lift the nose wheel off the…
• n. Repeated play on a radio station, etc.

tortuous

• adj. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
• adj. (obsolete) injurious; tortious.
• adj. (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most…

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.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

twisty

• adj. that twists.
• adj. curly.
• n. Something that is twisty, such as a road.
• n. A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion.

voluminous

• adj. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
• adj. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
• adj. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
• adj. Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse.

wandering

• adj. Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
• adj. (medicine, of an organ) Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
• n. Travelling with no preset route; roaming.
• n. Irregular turning of the eyes.
• n. Aimless thought.
• n. Straying from a desired path.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Disordered speech or delirium.
• v. present participle of wander.

wind

• n. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or…
• n. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
• n. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
• n. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.).
• n. (India and Japan) One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).
• n. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
• n. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
• n. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points,…
• n. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent…
• n. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
• n. A bird, the dotterel.
• n. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary…
• v. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
• v. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.
• v. (reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.
• v. (Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
• v. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
• v. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
• v. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
• v. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
• v. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
• v. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
• v. To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
• v. (ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.
• v. To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate;…
• v. To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
• v. To cover or surround with something coiled about.
• n. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.