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

See also: circumlocution, indirect

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circumflex femoral vein
circumflex humeral artery
circumflex iliac artery
circumflex iliac vein
circumflex scapular artery
circumflex vein
circumfluous
circumfuse
circumjacent
circumlocution
circumlocutious
circumlocutory
circumnavigate
circumnavigation
circumnavigator
circumpolar
circumscribe
circumscribed
circumscription
circumspect
circumspection