circumlocution (n.)
- ambages
- circuitry
- circularity
- circulation
- circumnavigation
- circumvolution
- convolution
- crinkle
- deviance
- deviation
- deviousness
- digression
- excursion
- excursus
- gyre
- indirection
- involution
- meander
- obliqueness
- orbit
- periphrasis
- pleonasm
- redundancy
- roundabout
- rounding
- sinuation
- sinuosity
- sinuousness
- spiral
- tautology
- torsion
- tortuosity
- tortuousness
- turn
- turning
- twisting
- undulation
- wave
- waving
- wheeling
- winding
Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving how not to do it.
