convolve /kən-volvˈ/

To roll together, or one part on another

convolute /konˈvə-loot, -lūt/ adjective

1. Rolled together, or one part on another
2. Coiled laterally with one edge inside, one outside (botany)
3. (of a flower-bud) contorted (botany)
4. (of a gastropod shell) having the inner whorls concealed or overlapped by the outer (zoology)

convolutˈed adjective

1. (of argument, style of speech or writing) intricate, tortuous, difficult to understand
2. Unclear
3. Convolute, rolled together

convolutˈedly adverb

convolution /-looˈ, -lūˈ/ noun

1. A twist or coil
2. A fold or sinuosity, esp of the brain surface
3. A complication

convoluˈtional adjective

• preheat
• preheated
• preheating
• preheats
• preheminence
• prehend
• prehended
• prehending
• prehends
• prehensible
• prehensile
• prehensilities
• prehensility
• prehension
• prehensions
• prehensive
• prehensor
• prehensorial
• prehensors
• prehensory
• prehistorian
• prehistorians
• prehistoric
• prehistorical
• prehistorically