UNWIST Antonyms

• American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

• a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

• lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl

• form a curl, curve, or kink

• shape one's body into a curl

• wind around something in coils or loops

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets

• play the Scottish game of curling

• tie or link together

• spin, wind, or twist together

• a tight cluster of people or things

• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object

• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged

• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour

• something twisted and tight and swollen

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere

• make into knots; make knots out of

• tie or fasten into a knot

• tangle or complicate

• a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center

• a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle

• a continuously accelerating change in the economy

• ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center

• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

• flying downward in a helical path with a large radius

• in the shape of a coil

• to wind or move in a spiral course

• form a spiral

• move in a spiral or zigzag course

• a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven

• something jumbled or confused

• force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action

• tangle or complicate

• disarrange or rumple; dishevel

• twist together or entwine into a confusing mass

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• the act of rotating rapidly

• turn in a twisting or spinning motion

• cause to spin

• an unforeseen development

• an interpretation of a text or action

• any clever maneuver

• the act of rotating rapidly

• a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments

• a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight

• a circular segment of a curve

• a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself

• a jerky pulling movement

• a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

• social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s

• the act of winding or twisting

• turning or twisting around (in place)

• to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• turn in the opposite direction

• form into a spiral shape

• form into twists

• extend in curves and turns

• do the twist

• twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates

• practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive

• twist suddenly so as to sprain

• the act of winding or twisting

• air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure

• a tendency or force that influences events

• breath

• empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath

• a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

• to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course

• catch the scent of; get wind of

• extend in curves and turns

• arrange or coil around

• coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem

• form into a wreath

• raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

• cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person

• a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla

• the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped

• arrange or fold as a cover or protection

• arrange or coil around

• enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering

• crash into so as to coil around