Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| arch | sly, mischievous (noun) a structure of wedge-shaped stones or other pieces; (verb) to bend |
| archlike | like an arch. |
| backbend | an acrobatic feat. |
| bend | a curve (verb) to curve |
| bendable | capable of being bent. |
| bendiness | the state of being bendy |
| bendingly | (Adv.) BENDING. |
| biflex | bent in two places. |
| bow | a bending of neck or body in greeting; (verb) to bend or incline downwards. |
| bowbent | (Milton) bent like a bow. |
| buckle | a fastening for a strap or band, consisting of rim and tongue; (verb) to bend under pressure. |
| camber | a slight arch or convexity eg to a road surface or the deck of a ship; (verb) to give a camber to. |
| circumflect | to bend round; to mark with a circumflex. |
| circumflexion | a bending round. |
| compliable | capable of bending or yielding; compliant. |
| compliably | (Adv.) COMPLIABLE, capable of bending or yielding. |
| courb | (Arch.) to bend or stoop. |
| curvate | curved. |
| curvated | curved. |
| curvation | the state of being curved. |
| curvative | relating to curvation. |
| curvature | a curving or bending. |
| curve | a line that is not straight (verb) to deviate from straightness |
| curvedly | (Adv.) CURVED, not straight. |
| curvesome | curvy. |
| curvital | of or relating to curvature. |
| curvity | the state of being curved. |
| decurve | to curve downwards. |
| deflective | causing deflection. |
| deflex | to bend down. |
| dorsiflexion | a bending backwards; a bending of the back. |
| dumple | to make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. |
| embow | (Arch.) to bend, to arch. |
| embowment | the act of embowing, bending. |
| enarch | to arch. |
| flection | the act of bending, or state of being bent. |
| flectional | relating to flection, the act of bending, or state of being bent. |
| flectionless | without flection. |
| flex | to bend. |
| flexible | capable of being bent. |
| flexibly | (Adv.) FLEXIBLE, capable of being bent. |
| flexile | flexible. |
| flexion | the act of bending, or state of being bent. |
| flexional | relating to flexion, a bend, a fold. |
| flexural | of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure. |
| flexure | the act of flexing or bending. |
| genuflect | to bend the knee and lower the body, esp in reverence. |
| hookedness | the state of being bent like a hook. |
| hump | a rounded protuberance (verb) to arch into a hump |
| hunch | an intuition; (verb) to arch forward. |
| incurvate | curved inward; (verb) to curve in. |
| incurvation | the state of being incurved. |
| incurvature | the state of being incurved. |
| incurve | to curve inwards. |
| incurvity | a state of being bent or curved. |
| inflect | to bend; to alter tone or pitch, to modulate. |
| inflexure | an inflection; a bend or fold. |
| kink | a bend or curl (verb) to form a tight curl or bend in |
| kinkiness | the state of being kinky. |
| kinkle | a slight kink. |
| mangulate | (Aust. sl.) to bend out of shape, mangle. |
| pandation | (Arch.) warping. |
| pliable | easily bent. |
| pliably | (Adv.) PLIABLE, easily bent. |
| pliancy | the state of being pliant. |
| pliant | easily bent. |
| pliantly | (Adv.) PLIANT, easily bent. |
| plicate | folded like a fan (verb) to pleat, fold like a fan |
| plication | the act of folding. |
| plicature | the act of folding. |
| ply | a fold; (verb) to bend or fold. |
| plyingly | (Adv.) PLYING, bending. |
| proneness | the state of being prone. |
| recurve | to curve again; curve back. |
| reflex | bent backwards (noun) an instinctive action; (verb) to bend back |
| reflexion | the act of reflexing, bending back. |
| reflexional | relating to reflexion. |
| reflexly | (Adv.) REFLEX, bent backwards. |
| retroflected | bent or turned back. |
| retroflection | the state of being bent back. |
| retroflex | a backward curve; (verb) to bend backward. |
| retroflexed | bent or turned back. |
| retroflexion | the state of being bent back. |
| serpentize | to wind; to cause to wind. |
| sinuate | curved (verb) to curve in and out |
| sinuately | (Adv.) SINUATE, having a wavy edge. |
| sinuation | a winding or bending in and out. |
| swervable | capable of being swerved. |
| unflexed | not flexed. |
| upcurve | to curve upward. |
| whippy | pliant, supple. |