A list of 29 words by Wordplayer.
- periphrasis appears on 39 other lists and has 2 comments
- cledonism appears on 14 other lists and has 14 comments
- euphemism appears on 97 other lists and has 2 comments
- amphilogism appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- equivocation appears on 21 other lists
- circumlocution appears on 125 other lists and has 8 comments
- periphrase appears on 1 other list
- ambage appears on 8 other lists
- hendiadys appears on 34 other lists and has 2 comments
- hendiatris appears on 8 other lists and has 1 comment
- tautology appears on 135 other lists and has 4 comments
- overstate appears on 2 other lists
- apophasis appears on 42 other lists and has 4 comments
- paradiastole appears on 8 other lists and has 2 comments
- litotes appears on 83 other lists and has 4 comments
- prolixity appears on 39 other lists and has 1 comment
- logorrhoea appears on 12 other lists and has 3 comments
- polysyndeton appears on 26 other lists and has 5 comments
- grandiloquence appears on 27 other lists and has 2 comments
- pleonasm appears on 108 other lists and has 12 comments
- redundancy appears on 9 other lists
- perissologia appears on 1 other list
- metalepsis appears on 13 other lists
- kenning appears on 18 other lists and has 3 comments
- dysphemism appears on 51 other lists and has 6 comments
- wordiness appears on 6 other lists and has 1 comment
- verbosity appears on 20 other lists and has 1 comment
- circumbendibus appears on 19 other lists and has 3 comments
- indirection appears on 5 other lists
Wordplayer This list also includes figures of speech which can become circumlocution if they are used a certain way. Jan 29, 2011