Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abducent | turning away; bearing away from. |
| anfractuous | full of twists and turns; winding. |
| autorotate | to self-turn. |
| autorotation | the act of self-turning. |
| avert | to turn away. |
| avertedly | (Adv.) AVERTED, turned aside. |
| circumduct | to cause to revolve around an imaginary axis. |
| circumgyrate | to whirl or roll round. |
| circumnutate | to proceed with a spiral motion. |
| circumvolution | anything winding or sinuous. |
| circumvolve | to roll round. |
| contort | to twist out of shape. |
| contortedly | (Adv.) CONTORTED. |
| corkscrew | a device, usually consisting of a piece of metal in the shape of a screw, for drawing corks from bottles; (verb) to twist from side to side. |
| corotate | to rotate jointly. |
| cowp | (Scots) to overturn, turn up. |
| deflect | to turn aside. |
| deflection | an act of bending or turning away. |
| deflector | something that deflects. |
| deflexion | an act of bending or turning away. |
| deflexional | showing deflexion. |
| deflexure | a deflection. |
| detorsion | the act of detorting; a twisting or warping. |
| detort | (Obs.) to untwist. |
| detortion | (Obs.) the act of detorting; a twisting or warping. |
| deviate | to turn aside from a course or norm. |
| deviation | the act of deviating. |
| deviatory | tending to deviate. |
| dextrogyrate | causing to turn to the right hand. |
| dextrogyre | causing to turn to the right hand. |
| dextrorsal | rising spirally and turning to the left. |
| dextrorse | rising spirally and turning to the left. |
| disentwine | to free from being entwined or twisted. |
| diverse | varied (verb, Spenser) to turn aside |
| diversely | (Adv.) DIVERSE, varied. |
| divert | to turn aside. |
| diverter | one who diverts. |
| divertingly | (Adv.) DIVERTING. |
| dogleg | a sharp bend; (verb) to move in an angle. |
| entwine | to twine around. |
| entwinement | the act of entwining. |
| entwist | to twist into or together. |
| evaginate | to turn inside out. |
| eversion | the act of turning inside out or outwards. |
| evert | to turn inside out; to turn outwards. |
| extravert | extrovert (verb) to turn outwards |
| extravertly | (Adv.) EXTRAVERT, in a showy or extrovert manner. |
| extrovert | turning outwards (verb) to turn outwards |
| extrovertly | (Adv.) EXTROVERT, turning outwards. |
| flexuose | full of windings and turnings. |
| flexuous | full of windings and turnings. |
| flexuously | (Adv.) FLEXUOUS, full of windings and turnings. |
| gyral | moving in a circular path or way; gyratory. |
| gyrally | (Adv.) GYRAL, moving in a circular path or way. |
| gyrant | gyrating. |
| gyrate | to revolve or rotate. |
| gyration | the act of gyrating. |
| gyrational | relating to gyration. |
| gyrator | one who gyrates. |
| gyratory | moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving. |
| gyre | a circular or spiral movement; (verb) to move in a circle or spiral. |
| gyroidal | spiral, rotatory. |
| inbent | bent inwards. |
| inflexed | bent inwards; turned. |
| inswing | an inward swing. |
| intertwine | to unite by twining one with another. |
| intertwiningly | (Adv.) INTERTWINING. |
| intertwist | to twist together one with another. |
| intertwistingly | (Adv.) INTERTWISTING. |
| intervolve | to roll up or entwine with one another. |
| interwind | to wind in among. |
| interwreathe | to twine in between. |
| intorsion | a twist, a twine. |
| intort | to twist inwards. |
| intortion | a twist, a twine. |
| inturn | a turning inwards. |
| inturned | turned inwards. |
| intwinement | the act of intwining. |
| intwist | to twist into or together. |
| inversion | the act of inverting or state of being inverted. |
| inversive | tending to invert. |
| invert | to turn upside down. |
| invertedly | (Adv.) INVERTED. |
| inverter | one who inverts. |
| invertor | one who inverts. |
| inwind | to wind about; to encircle. |
| kam | (Shakesp.) crooked, awry. |
| kamme | (Shakesp.) crooked, awry. |
| mazey | winding or convoluted as a maze; confused, dizzy. |
| mazily | (Adv.) MAZY, like a maze, winding. |
| mazy | winding or convoluted as a maze; confused, dizzy. |
| meandrian | (Obs.) meandering. |
| meandrous | meandering. |
| obversion | the act of turning toward or downward. |
| obvert | to turn in the direction of, or face to face with, something. |
| outwhirl | to surpass in whirling. |
| overspin | the spinning of a flying ball as if it were rolling on the ground. |
| pitchpole | to turn end over end. |
| pivot | to turn on a shaft or rod. |
| retrorse | turned back or downward. |
| retrorsely | (Adv.) RETRORSE, turned back or downward. |
| retrovert | to turn back. |
| retwist | to twist again. |
| revolve | to turn about an axis. |
| revolvency | the act or state of revolving. |
| revolvingly | (Adv.) REVOLVING. |
| rotatable | that can be rotated. |
| rotate | to turn about an axis. |
| rotation | the act or an instance of rotating. |
| rotational | relating to rotation. |
| rotative | turning like a wheel. |
| rotatively | (Adv.) ROTATIVE, turning, as a wheel. |
| rotatory | turning as on an axis. |
| serpentine | winding (verb) to wind |
| serpentinely | (Adv.) SERPENTINE, winding. |
| serpentiningly | (Adv.) SERPENTINING. |
| serpentinise | to wind. |
| serpentinize | to wind. |
| serpentise | to wind; to cause to wind. |
| sheer | utter (verb) to swerve, to deviate |
| sheerly | (Adv.) SHEER, utter. |
| shunt | to turn aside. |
| slew | a large number or amount; (verb) to swerve violently. |
| slue | a large number or amount; (verb) to swerve violently. |
| spiral | winding like the thread of a screw (verb) to move in spiral fashion |
| spirally | (Adv.) SPIRAL, winding like the thread of a screw. |
| strobic | like a spinning top; appearing to spin. |
| swarve | to swerve. |
| swerve | a sudden turn; (verb) to turn aside suddenly from a straight course. |
| swerver | one who swerves. |
| swirl | a whirling motion (verb) to move with a whirling motion |
| swirlingly | (Adv.) SWIRLING. |
| swirly | swirling. |
| swivel | a ring or link that turns round on a pin or neck; (verb) to turn as if on a pivot. |
| tirl | (Scots) to turn; to whirl; to rattle. |
| torsibility | the ability to be twisted or subjected to torsion. |
| torsion | twisting; a twist; the strain produced by twisting. |
| torsional | of or pertaining to torsion. |
| torsionally | (Adv.) TORSIONAL, of or pertaining to torsion. |
| tortility | the state of being tortile, twisted, or wreathed. |
| tortuosity | the state of being tortuous. |
| tortuous | full of twistings and windings. |
| tortuously | (Adv.) TORTUOUS, full of twists and windings. |
| tortuousness | the state of being tortuous. |
| trochilic | of or relating to rotatory motion. |
| turn | a change of direction; (verb) to change direction. |
| turnable | that can be turned. |
| twiddle | a twirl (verb) to play idly with something |
| twiddler | one who twiddles. |
| twiddly | characterized by twiddling. |
| twine | a twisted cord; string or strong thread (verb) to twist together |
| twiningly | (Adv.) TWINING. winding, coiling. |
| twirl | a twist, a spin (verb) to rotate rapidly |
| twirly | given to twirling. |
| twist | a cord, a strand (verb) to combine by winding together |
| twistable | that can be twisted. |
| twisty | full of twists. |
| twizzle | to swirl; to spin. |
| uey | (Aust. sl.) a U-turn. |
| unlay | to untwist. |
| unturn | to turn backwards. |
| untwist | to untwine. |
| unwreathe | to take out of a wreathed condition. |
| upend | to turn on end. |
| upturn | to turn upwards. |
| veer | to change direction. |
| veeringly | (Adv.) VEERING, changing direction. |
| verticity | the power of turning. |
| volutation | the action of rolling. |
| volution | a revolving movement. |
| vorticose | like a vortex, whirling. |
| wheeler | one who wheels, or turns. |
| whirl | a rapid rotary motion (verb) to revolve rapidly |
| whirlabout | anything that whirls around; a whirligig. |
| whirler | one who whirls. |
| whirlingly | (Adv.) WHIRLING. |
| wiggler | one who wiggles. |
| windring | (Shakesp.) winding. |
| wrench | to twist suddenly and forcibly. |
| wrick | to twist; to sprain; to strain. |
| wriggle | a turn or twist (verb) to turn or twist in a sinuous manner |
| wriggler | one who wriggles. |
| wriggly | given to wriggling. |
| writhe | to squirm or twist in pain. |
| writhen | (Arch.) twisted, convoluted. |
| writher | one that writhes. |
| writhingly | (Adv.) WRITHING. |
| wry | twisted (verb) to give a twist to |
| wryly | (Adv.) WRY, twisted to one side. |
| wryness | the quality of being wry. |
| wrythen | (Arch.) twisted, convoluted. |
| zag | a new line, or sharp change, of direction on a zigzag course; (verb) to change direction on a zigzag course. |
| zig | a new line or sharp change of direction on a zigzag course; (verb) to change direction on a zigzag course. |
| zigzag | a short sharp turning (verb) to move in zigzag fashion |
| zigzaggedness | the state of being zigzag. |
| zigzagger | one who zigzags. |
| zigzaggery | the state of being zigzag. |
| zigzaggy | having sharp turns. |