1. Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
   "had a preference for circumlocutious rather than forthright expression"
   - circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious [archaic]

See also: circumlocution, indirect

• dip solder
• DIP switch
• dipeptide
• diphenhydramine
• diphenyl
• diphenylbutyl piperidine
• diphenylhydantoin
• diphtheria
• diphtheritic
• diphthong
• diphthongal
• diphthongise
• diphthongize
• Diphylla
• Diphylla ecaudata
• Dipladenia
• Dipladenia boliviensis
• Diplazium pycnocarpon
• diplegia
• diplo-
• diplococcus
• Diplococcus pneumoniae
• diplodocus
• diploic vein
• diploid