ambages (n.)

• bypass
• circuit
• circumlocution
• circumvolution
• convolution
• crinkle
• detour
• deviation
• deviousness
• digression
• excursion
• indirection
• involution
• meander
• obliqueness
• periphrasis
• roundabout
• sinuation
• sinuosity
• sinuousness
• torsion
• tortuosity
• tortuousness
• turning
• twisting
• undulation
• wave
• waving
• winding