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Answer for the clue "Full of twistings and windings ", 8 letters:
tortuous

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Tortuous \Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F. tortueux. See Torture .] Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 twisted; having many turns; convoluted. 2 (context obsolete English) injurious; tortious 3 (context astrology English) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely

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