Twist

Definition: Twist

Twist

Noun

1. An unforeseen development; "events suddenly took an awkward turn".

2. An interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct".

3. Any clever (deceptive) maneuver; "he would stoop to any device to win a point".

4. The act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting".

5. A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments; "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull".

6. A sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight.

7. A miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself.

8. A jerky pulling movement.

9. A hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair.

10. : the act of winding or twisting; "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind".

11. : turning or twisting around (in place); "with a quick twist of his head he surveyed the room".

Verb

1. To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (esp. when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort." "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace.".

2. Cause to assume a crooked or angular form; "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar".

3. Turn in the opposite direction; "twist a wire".

4. Form into a spiral shape; "The cord is all twisted".

5. Form into twists; "Twist the bacon around the sausage".

6. Do the twist.

7. Twist or pull violently or suddenly, esp. so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; also metaphorically: "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest".

8. Change the meaning of.

9. Twist suddenly so as to sprain; "wrench one's ankle"; "The wrestler twisted his shoulder"; "the hikers sprained their ankles when they fell"; "I turned my ankle and couldn't walk for several days".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "twist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Twist \Twist\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Twisted; Twisting.]. (references)

Biographical Satire

Chemistry

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Metallurgy

Public Administration

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Twist

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Convolution

Winding; Verb: convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity; sinuosity, sinuation; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages; torsion; inosculation; reticulation; (crossing); rivulation; roughness.

Crossing

Twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat.

Deviation

Stray, straggle; sidle; diverge; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.

Distortion

Verb: distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

Filament

Wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.

Insanity

Fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice); kleptodipsomania; hypochondriasis; (low spirits); melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Obliquity

Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa.

Punishment

Be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing, twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry, ride the lightning; face the firing squad.

Crosswords: Twist

Dutch (dispute, quarrel, twist), French (twist), German (twist), Italian (twist), Polish (twist), Romanian (twist), Spanish (twist).

So back to the Mexican Bandstand with nothing but twist music (Go Go Amigo; writing credit: David Detiege)

She's a sick twist all right (Miller's Crossing; writing credit: Joel Coen ; Ethan Coen)

Don't get your panties in a twist (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith)

It looks like a dish out of Oliver Twist. (California Suite; writing credit: Neil Simon)

The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations and often lose themselves in error and darkness (The Brain That Wouldn't Die; writing credit: Rex Carlton; Joseph Green)

My body starts a motion and I start to twist (Flipper Twist; performing artist: Flipper)

It's gotta be a strange twist of fate (Twist Of Fate; performing artist: Olivia Newton-John)

More than twist in my sobriety (Twist in my Sobriety; performing artist: Tanita Tikaram)

Numba 1 dont tangle and twist it (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

Come on little miss and do the twist ("The Twist"; performing artist: Chubby Checker)

Twist (2003)

Oliver Twist (1974)

A Twist of Sand (1968)

Twist y crimen (1965)

I Opet twist (1964)

Dear Lady Twist (performing artist: Gary "U.S." Bonds)

Twist, Twist Senora (performing artist: Gary "U.S." Bonds)

The Twist (performing artist: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters)

Peppermint Twist (performing artist: Joey Dee and The Starliters)

Soul Twist (Instrumental) (performing artist: King Curtis and His Noble Knights)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Twist of the Wrist 2: The Basics of High-Performance Motorcycle Riding (reference)

• Folded Flowers: Fabric Origami with a Twist of Silk Ribbon (reference)

• Oliver Twist (reference)

• Patio Daddy-O: '50s Recipes With a '90s Twist (reference)

• The Everything Kids' Mazes Book: Twist, Squirm, and Wind Your Way Through Subways, Museums, Monster Lairs, and Tombs (Everything Kids Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Twist (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Oliver Twist (reference)

• Oliver Twist - Criterion Collection (reference)

• French Twist (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Oliver Twist (reference)

• A Twist of Marley: A Tribute (reference)

• Here comes...el Son - Songs of The Beatles with a Cuban TWIST (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Digi Lan Micro Twist 10BT Transceiver 1Aui 1RJ45 (reference)

• TWIST FREE PHONE ADAPTER RJ11 (reference)

• Super Text Twist [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• BRAUN 370 Pocket Twist Men's Portable Shaver ( Black ) (reference)

• HoMedics BLTW-100 21-Inch AquaScape Twist Bubble Lamp (reference)

• Nambé Twist Vase (8-1/2") (reference)

• DeWalt DW272W 6.3-Amp Variable-Speed Reversing Drywall Screwdriver with 50' Twist Lock Cord (reference)

• DuraPRO Twist 2-in-1 Ratchet (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A presidential Oliver Twist. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oliver Twist - Nancy Sikes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Entertainers (l to r) Conway Twitty, Chubby Checker, Dick Clark, full-length portrait, facing front, doing "the Twist", a dance. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grand revival of Oliver Twist after Cruikshank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wash., D.C., July 4, 1971 smoke-in let's twist again like we did last summer!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Brujon having spent a month in a chamber of punishment, had had time, first, to twist a rope, secondly, to perfect a plan

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The term chorea describes how people affected with the disorder writhe, twist, and turn in a constant, uncontrollable dance-like motion. (references)

In torticollis, the muscles in the neck that control the position of the head are affected, causing the head to twist and turn to one side. In addition, the head may be pulled forward or backward. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "twist": aerodynamic twist ♦ amount of twist ♦ bomb twist ♦ Damascus twist ♦ dance twist ♦ double and twist yarn ♦ Drag twist ♦ Gain twist ♦ Gaining twist ♦ Increase twist ♦ Machine twist ♦ mock twist ♦ mule twist ♦ out of twist ♦ regular twist ♦ right twist ♦ stub twist ♦ to twist ♦ twist about ♦ twist around ♦ twist bit ♦ twist drill ♦ twist liveliness ♦ twist off ♦ twist one's way through the crowd ♦ twist out ♦ twist round ♦ twist smb. around one's finger ♦ twist smb. round one's finger ♦ twist smb.'s ankle ♦ twist smb.'s arm ♦ twist smb.'s tail ♦ twist smb.'s way through the crowd ♦ twist the facts ♦ twist the truth ♦ twist up ♦ uniform twist ♦ water tu twist ♦ Z twist. Additional references.

Beginning with "twist": twist-beam, twist-grips, twist-legged, twist-on, twist-pile, twist-tree, twist-wire.

Ending with "twist": rope-twist.

Containing "twist": perrier-with-a-twist-of-lime.

Afrikaans

kronkel (meander, wind around). (various references)

Albanian

thurje (fencing, knitting, knitwork, network, plotting, spin, weave, weaving, wicker-work, woof), thur (braid, convolve, enmesh, fence, knit, pleach, shut up, spin, splice, stitch, twine, weave), vërtit (flip, grind, span, spin, swing, wiggle), vërtis (flip, grind, span, spin, swing, wiggle), rrotulloj (crank, gyrate, revolve, rotate, slue round, spin, swing, swivel, traverse, whirl), rrotullame (carrousel, merry go round), përdredhje (convolution, curl, kink, Rick, sprain, squirm, torsion, turn, wrench, wrick), kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, volte-face, wheel, wheeling, wind), gërshetoj (braid, entwine, entwist, interlace, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, lace, plait, tress, twine, wreathe), gërshetim (interlacement, interlacing, interweaving, weaving), e prerë (chamfer, cut, indentation, Nick, notch, notching, snip, split), dredh (cast, convulse, curl, friz, frizz, roll, shake, spin, vibrate, wriggle), bërryl (bend, elbow, loop, offset, oxbow, toggle, winding). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تلوى (crank, crook, meander, ramble, roll, screw, squirm, tangle, wriggle, writhe), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear), ‏رقصة التوسيت, ‏إلتواء مفتوح (bend), ‏إلتوى (bend round, buckle, double, sprain, strain), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency), ‏الإ لتواء, ‏جدل (braid, braiding, cue, entwine, intertwine, interweaving, mat, plait, plaiting, twine, twining, wreathe, writhe), ‏خيط (cord, fiber, fibre, filament, line, string, thread, yarn), ‏تدور متقدمة باتجاه واحد, ‏تحريف (distortion, falsification, garble, misrepresentation, torture), ‏شوه (assassinate, blemish, color, colour, deface, defile, deform, denigrate, distort, falsify, garble, harm, maim, mangle, mar, misrepresent, mutilate, pervert, queer, skew, slant, slur, spoil, tinker, torment, torture, warp, wrench), ‏تلولب (screw), ‏فتل (curl, kink, lay, rope, torque, torsion, twiddle, twine), ‏حبل (bond, cord, fall, inseminate, pregnancy, rope, tether), ‏حرف (brim, brink, character, contort, corrupt, deviate, distort, diverge, edge, falsify, garble, letter, list, margin, misrepresent, particle, slant, tamper, torture, wrest), ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile), ‏وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, expedient, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic), ‏ولولب, ‏لف (coil, cover, curl, encompass, enfold, envelop, enwrap, fold up, furl, infold, lap, reel, roll up, rolling, spool, surround, swaddle, swathe, twine, whirl, wind, winding, wrap, wrap up), ‏لوى (bend, bent, contort, curl, flex, incline, screw, turn, wrench, wring, writhe, wry), ‏لفة (coil, curl, furl, roll), ‏منعطف (bend, bight, curve, kink, serpentine, turn, turning), ‏فتاة مومس, ‏تحريف المعنى. (various references)

Bulgarian 

извъртам се, навяхвам (slip, sprain, strain, wrench, wrick), мамя (cozen, deceive, dupe, fiddle, flim-flam, gag, gouge, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, play along, play possum with, rook, shark, stick, string along, take, victimize), засуквам, завъртам (screw, switch, turn, turn off, turn on, wind), ексцентричност (eccentricity, kink), пресуквам, индивидуална особеност (idiosyncrasy), изкривяване (collapse, contortion, curvature, curve, deformation, sag), дебел копринен конец, извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, legerdemain, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion), нещо навито (screw), извъртам (boggle, dodge, double talk, equivocate, pull round, screw, shift, shuffle, sophisticate, tergiversate, wangle, whiffle), извивка (bend, convolution, crook, curve, flection, flexion, fold, incurvation, indentation, kink, return, sinuosity, sweep, tortuousity, twine, wave, wind, winding), извиване (deflection, deflexion, wring), извивам се (crook, meander, nutate, spring, sweep, turn in, wind, wriggle), извивам (bend, convolve, curl, curve, elbow, incurve, pull round, recurve, screw, turn, twine, wreathe, wring, writhe), изопачаване (contortion, corruption, deformation, distortion, falsification, manipulation, misrepresentation, mutilation, travesty), изопачавам (become distorted, bend, color, colour, contort, corrupt, deform, distort, falsify, mangle, mutilate, pervert, torture, travesty, turn about), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery), добър апетит (bon appetite), изкривявам (contort, curve, distort, skew, tilt), кесийка (pocket), свитък тютюневи листа, свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, wad, warp, work), смесена напитка, сплитам (braid, intertwine, knit together, lace, mat, plait, tangle, twine, wreathe), ход (action, bat, course, current, foot, gait, going, lapse, motion, move, movement, operation, pace, passage, passing, play, ploy, process, race, rate, run, running, stream, swing, tenor, tide, track, train, tread, walk, way), чудатост (comicality, eccentricity, faddiness, kink, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, strangeness), чиле (hank, hasp, skein), фунийка (cornet), туист, навяхване (sprain, wrench), шнур (cord, flex, lacing, piping, point, pull, strand), неочакван обрат (go, peripeteia, peripetia), гърча се (curl up, squirm, writhe), въртеливо движение, вита кифла, вит хляб, вия се (coil, creep, curl, entwine, ramp, run, serpentine, weave, wheel, wind, wound, wreathe, writhe), вия (chide, howl, twine, ululate, wail, waul, whine, wreathe, yowl), обръщам (bring about, cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, upset), нещо свито, усуквам (convolve, equivocate, lay, palter, strand, tergiversate, throw), танцувам туист. (various references)

Chinese 

转弯, 綯 (bind, cord), 紆 (cord), 捩 (tear). (various references)

Czech

toèivý pohyb, toèit se (curve, go round, revolve, rotate, swim, swirl, turn, twirl, veer, whiffle), toèit (shoot, spill, spin, swing, turn, twiddle, twine, twirl, whirl, wind), toèení (spin, swing, turning, wrench), soukat (twine), lano (cable, guy, rope, tight-rope), motat (spill, wind up), otáèet (swing, turn, whirl round), překroutit (distort, falsify, garble, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, skew, wrench), plést (hand-knit, knit, plait, weave, wreathe), proplést (entwine, interlock, intertwine, intertwist), kroutit (twiddle, wiggle, wrest, wring), sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, proclivity, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt), zkroucení (contortion, warp), svázat (bind up, colligate, tie, tie down), vánoèka (christmas cake), závitek (spire), provázek (cord, string, twine, whipcord, whip-cord). (various references)

Danish

tvinding/slåning, tvinding (double texture proofing, doubling, twisting), vridning (contortion, torsion, twisting, wash-out), spinning (amount of twist), spaending (electromotive force, potential difference, stress, tension, tonus, voltage), snoning (amount of twist, lay, snake, snaking, spinning, stitch, torsion, turn, twisting), slåning (amount of twist, lay, lay method, pitch), langsvridning (helical arrangement, screw dislocation), garnforveksling (colour, count, filament, lustre, mixed end, or shade from the adjacent normal threads., wrong end), falsk tråd (colour, count, filament, lustre, mixed end, or shade from the adjacent normal threads., wrong end), falsk garn (colour, count, filament, lustre, mixed end, or shade from the adjacent normal threads., wrong end). (various references)

Dutch

twist (dispute, quarrel), kronkelen (meander, wind around). (various references)

Esperanto

tvisto, tvisti, tordi (contort), volviĝi, serpentumi (meander, wind around), kurbiĝadi. (various references)

Faeroese

tvinna (contort), vinda (contort, jack, roll, roll up, wind, wind up), snúðra (braid, contort, plait, twine, wreathe). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچیدن (Complicate, Envelop, Enwrap, Fake, Impact, Lap, Nest, Reverberate, Roll, Screw, Swab, Swath, Swathe, Tweak, Twinge, Wattle, Wind, Wrap), پیچ خوردگی (Rick, Screw, Torsion, Turquoise), پیچ دارکردن , پیچ (Bolt, Buckle, Curve, Knee, Loop, Meander, Ramp, Rick, Screw, Twine, Vis, Vortex, Whorl), نخ یاریسمان تابیده , تابیدن (Glint, Glow, Radiate, Shine, Stoke, Sun), تاب (Glow, Patience, Sway, Swing). (various references)

Finnish

kierre (spin, thread, worm). (various references)

French

torsion (twisting), tordre (twiddle). (various references)

German

drehen (be about, centre on, change, concern, contort, film, fix, grind, pull, pull off, revolve, roll, rotate, shift, slew, span, spin, spun, swivel, take, throw, to revolve, to turn, to twiddle, to twirl, to twist, turn, turn around, turn round, twiddle, twirl, wangle, wheel, wind, work), drall (ample, buxom, buxomly, hefty, inclination, rounded, spin, strapping, sturdy, tendency), verbiegen (bend, distort, warp), Drehung (gyration, revolution, revolving, rotation, screw, spin, torsion, turn, turning, veer). (various references)

Greek 

συστροφή (contortion, torsion, twine, twirl, wring). (various references)

Hebrew 

להתפתל (be twisted, coil, meander, wriggle), התפתלות (coiling, squirm, winding, wriggling), עקום (bending, contortion, crooked, crooking, curvature, distortion, warp, wry), פתול (bend, coil, corded, curve, kink, meander, torsion, wrick), קליעה (basketwork, network, plait, plaiting, weaving), שזירה (interweaving), סלוף (distortion, falsity, garbling, perversion), להעוות (corrupt, distort, pervert), משזר (interweaving, plaiting, twined, twining, twisted), לעקם (bend, contort, curve, distort, flex, warp), לעות (contort, corrupt, distort, falsify, pervert, strain, subvert, warp), לפתול (interweave, twine), לפתל (bend, curl, wind), לשזור (entwine, interlace, intertwine, spin, twine, weave, wreathe), מפתל (bend, curve, lay), לסלף (distort, falsify, garble, misrepresent, parody, pervert, skew, wrench, wrest). (various references)

Hungarian

csavarás (screw, torsion, twisting, warping, wrenching), cérna (double yarn, thread, twisted yarn). (various references)

Indonesian

tikungan, mengerotkan (distort), memilin, meliliti (wind around), belitan (association, coil, kink). (various references)

Irish

cas (turn). (various references)

Italian

torsione (torsion, twisting), storcere (wrench, writhe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

縒り (ply), 捻り (pinch). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひねり (pinch), より (ply). (various references)

Korean 

강선전도. (various references)

Manx

slew (swerve), kessey (curl, twisting), faastey (compress, compression, squeeze, wring, wringing), faast (filament, wring), clinkey, clinkal (jingle, jingling, jink), cassey (change, curl, distort, flick, flounce, involve, pervert, screw, spin, squirm, swing, swirl, tangle, turn, turn over, warp, whip-round, wrench, wring), carral (twine, twirl, warp), car (during, twirl, vicissitude), cammaghey (crook, distort, inflect, pervert), baic (bawl, bellow, bellow of pain, jerk). (various references)

Maya

kech (to twist). (various references)

Pig Latin

isttway.(various references)

Polish

twist. (various references)

Portuguese

torção (bent, kink, torsion), torcer (bend, contort, convolute, kink, screw, spin, sprain, strain, tweak, twiddle, twine, twirl, warp, wind, wrench, wrick, wring, writhe), retorcer (contort, kink, strain, tousle, twine, wring). (various references)

Romanian

twist, torsiune (torsion), talent (ability, accomplishments, aptitude, capability, dower, dowry, endowment, facility, faculty, felicity, genius, gift, ingenuity, knack, part, skill, talent, turn), şnur (braid, chenille, cord, cordon, in apple-pie order, lanyard, line, string, twine), face meandre (meander, wind), entorsã (Crick, sprain, wrench), efect dat unei bile de biliard, denaturare a cuvintelor cuiva, denatura cuvintele cuiva, deforma (contort, deface, deform, disfigure, distort, mangle, mutilate), curbã (curvature, curve, turn, wind), cotiturã (bend, bent, crook, curve, double, elbow, meander, turn, turning, wind, winding), cot (bend, crack, crook, cubit, curvature, curve, elbow, Ell, knee, knuckle, loop, meander, sweep, turn, turning, winding), ghirlandã (festoon, Garland, wreath), bumbãcel, pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump), şerpuiturã (meander, turn, winding, wriggle), şerpui (elbow, loop, meander, wave, wind, wriggle), învârti (brandish, dance, grind, manipulate, revolve, roll, rotate, spin, turn, turn round, twiddle, twirl, wheel, whirl, wield, wind), întortochea (wind), întoarcere (home, return, reversion, turn, turning), înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, vein, vocation), cornet de hârtie, se încolãci (coil, curl up, entwine, twine, twirl, wind, wreathe), sul (bundle, roll, roller, rouleau, scroll), sucire, suci (bend, crook, dislocate, distort, screw, sprain, turn, wield, wring), strâmba (bend, cast, contort, crook, distort, grimace, pucker), stoarce (crush, drain, exhaust, express, extort, extort from, fleece, force, milk, pinch, press, screw, soak, squeeze, swindle, wring), spânzurare (hanging), sfoarã (cord, line, packthread, string, twine), luxaţie (dislocation, luxation, sprain, strain), se strâmba (cast, make a wry face, make a wry mouth, make faces, mug, pull faces, spring), împleti flori în ghirlandã, scrântiturã (luxation), scâlcia (deform, distort), rãsucire (contortion, convolution, torsion, winding, wrench, wriggle, wring), rãsuci (contort, convolve, curl, dislocate, entwist, revolve, roll, screw, set, snake, spin, sprain, turn, wield, wring), predispoziţie (predisposition, propensity, susceptibility, tendency), poftã de mâncare (appetite, stomach), undui (float, flutter, play, wave), mlãdia (bend, limber), serpentinã (streamer, winding). (various references)

Romansch

storscher (to twist). (various references)

Russian 

скручивать искривление, свить (twine), свивать (swaddle, twine, wreathe), сплетать (entwine, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, inweave, pleach, twine, weave, wreathe), шнур (cord, lacing, line, packthread, tripwire, twine), шаг винтовой нарезки, кривизна (curvature, curve, flection, flexion, flexure, incurvation, wryness), вывих (dislocation, luxation, wrench), вить (twine), поворот (crook, rotation, slew, swerve, tumbling, turn, turn round, turning, turn-round, veer, veering, wheeling, winding), искривление (contortion, curvature, deformation, distortion, hog), изгиб (arc, bend, crook, curvature, curve, double, flection, flexure, incurvation, inflection, meanders, offset, wriggle). (various references)

Scottish

toinn (spin, twine), car (before an adj. : car coltach ri, fraud : an caraibh a, somewhat like, trick, turn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uplesti (enmesh, entwine, involve, splice, twine, weave into, work in, wreathe), iščašenje (dislocation, luxation, sprain, wrench), iščašiti (disjoin, disjoint, dislocate, luxate, sprain, wrench), izvrnuti (distort, evert, invert, turn over), nastranost (eccentricity, extravagance, kink, oddity, quaintness, queerness, weirdness), pletenica (braid, plait, splice), rotacija (rotation, shift, spin), grčiti se (contract, twitch, writhe), uganuti (luxate, sprain, wrench, wrick), zavrnuti (clinch, roll up, tighten, turn off, wring), upresti (twine), uvijanje (quirk), uviti (convolute, curl, implicate, pack, roll, wrap), uvrnuti (screw, snarl), vijuga (bend, circumvolution, curve, whorl, winding), vijugati (curve, meander, snake, wind), zakriviti, uganuće (luxation, sprain, wrench, wrick). (various references)

Spanish

torsión (torsion). (various references)

Swedish

vridning (swerve, torsion, turn, twisting, wiggle, wind, wrench, wriggle, wring), tvinna (throw, twine). (various references)

Turkish

tvist, bükmek (bend, buckle, contort, crook, curl, curl up, curve, distort, double, entwine, entwist, flex, fold, fold down, hook, inflect, intwine, spring, strand, throw, twine, wind up, wrench, wrest, wring), dönme (apostasy, circumvolution, conversion, convert, cycle, deflection, deflexion, facing, gyration, loop, proselyte, renegade, rotation, spin, swing, torsion, tumble, turn, turning, veer, wheel, whirligig, winding), dönemeç (bend, curve, elbow, hook, sweep, turning, turnout, wind, winding, zag), burmak (entwist, give smth. a wring, screw, twirl, wring), burkulmak, burkulma (Rick, sprain, strain, wrench, wrick), çarpıtma (distortion), burkma (sprain, wrench), dolamak (cincture, coil, coil up, enlace, enwrap, lap, reel, reel up, rotate, whip, whirl, wind, wrap), bükme (bend, bending, contortion, curl, wrench, wring), büklüm (curl, fold), bükülmek (bend, crook, curl up, curve, fold, spring, twine, wind), bükülme (contortion, distorsion, flection, flexion, Rick, torsion, wrench, wrick), çarpıtmak (angle, color, colour, contort, distort, garble, make awry, make crooked, pervert, skew, slant, strain, torture, warp, wrench, wrest, wring), burkmak (distort, luxate, Rick, sprain, strain, turn, wrench, wrick), kıvırmak (angle, bend, contort, Crimp, crisp, crook, curl, curl up, do successfully, drape, enfold, entwine, entwist, fold, fold down, frill, frizz, frizzle, gauffer, goffer, gopher, handle, have a command of, inflect, intwine, manage, meander, squirm, squirm out of, tuck, tuck in, tuck up, turn back, turn down, wind, wind up), viraj (bend, curve), sarmak (bandage, begird, beset, bind, bundle, cincture, clothe, coat, cocoon, coil, coil up, compass, do up, embrace, encircle, enclasp, encompass, enfold, enlace, entwine, entwist, envelop, enwrap, fold, fold up, furl, gird, hem about, hem around, hem in, infold, intwine, invest, involve, lap, overgrow, pack, reel, reel up, robe, roll, roll up, sheet, smother in, stalk, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tuck in, tuck up, twine, whirl, wind, wind up, wrap, wrap up), sarma sigara, kıvranmak (agonize, be convulsed, be pinched, squirm, suffer, thrash, thrash about, wriggle, writhe), kıvrım (bend, convolution, crease, Crimp, curve, flection, flexion, fold, frizz, hook, meander, plait, plat, sinuosity, sweep, twine, twirl, undulation, volute), dönmek (abjure, apostatize, bear, budge from, call back, change one's mind, chop about, chop round, circle, come back, come home, deflect, face, front, get round, go back, go back on, gyrate, pivot, put about, recall, recant, reel, regress, renege, repass, return, return to, revert, revolve, rotate, round, screw, sheer from, slew, slue, spin, swallow, swerve, swim, swing, switch, switch to, tumble, turn, turn back, turn one's coat, turn over, turn round, turn up, veer, veer round, wheel, wheel about, wheel around, whirl), kıvrılarak akmak, düğüm (gradient, knot, loop, nodal, node, nodosity, nodule, tangle, tie), kıvırma (bend, bending, curl, curling, meandering, twisting), ip (cord, halter, lanyard, lap, rope, string, tether, tightrope), ibrişim (thrown silk), girdap (Eddy, gulf, purl, suck, swirl, vortex, whirlpool), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn), yeni çözüm, kıvrılmak (be twisted, bend, crisp, curl, curl up, frizz, frizzle, huddle up, meander, snuggle, squirm, sweep, tuck, tuck up, tuck up one's legs, twine itself, twist about, wiggle, wind, wriggle, wriggle about). (various references)

Turkmen 

towlanma, tirlendirmek (roll, twirl), tirlemek (roll, twirl), pyrlamak (roll up, twirl), burmak (whirl). (various references)

Ukrainian

сплітатися (entwine, intertwine), шнурок (braid, knot, lace, pull, shoelace, twine), крутіння (twisting), крутити (jib, screw, spin, wag, whirl), вузол (bale, knot, node, snarl, tie), викручувати (wrench), вигин (arc, bend, camber, crook, curve, elbow). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vòng xoắn sợi xe, sự xoắn (torsion, wrench), sự vặn (torsion, wring, wrung), sự sái gân, sự quằn quại khúc cong, sự muốn ăn trò khéo tay, sự méo mó (deformation), sự bện, những cái ngoắt ngoéo ngóc ngách, bản tính sự bóp méo. (various references)

Welsh

troelli (spin, wind), nyddu (spin), nydd-droi (screw), nydd-dro, dirwyn (twine, wind), cyfrodeddu (twine), cordeddu (twine). (various references)

speira, strangalan. (various references)

contorquere, depravant, depravat, depravatum, depravatus, extorserit, extorsit, intorqueo, torquens, torquent, torquentes, torquere, torqueri, torques, torserat, torta, tortam, tortamque, tortas, tortiones, tortis, torto, tortura, torturi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "twist": twisted, twister, twisters, twistier, twistiest, twisting, twistings, twists, twisty. (additional references)

Words ending with "twist": entwist, intertwist, intwist, retwist, untwist. (additional references)

Words containing "twist": entwisted, entwisting, entwists, intertwisted, intertwisting, intertwists, intwisted, intwisting, intwists, retwisted, retwisting, retwists, untwisted, untwisting, untwists. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Twist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atwest, thist, tist, Tista, Tsitsi, tswit, ttits, tvist, twase, Twisdton, twise, Twisk, twistr, twitt, twizn, twoish. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: twits.

-1 letter: twit, wist, wits.

-2 letters: its, sit, tis, wis, wit.

-3 letters: is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: twists, twisty.

+2 letters: entwist, intwist, nitwits, outwits, retwist, twinset, twisted, twister, untwist, wetsuit, wettish, whatsit, whitest, wittols.

+3 letters: entwists, intwists, outwaits, retwists, swatting, swiftest, swiftlet, swotting, tawniest, thewiest, twenties, twiniest, twinjets, twinsets, twisters, twistier, twisting, twitches, twitters, untwists, wartiest, wetsuits, wettings, whatsits, whitiest, whitters, whittles, wiftiest, withiest, withouts, wittiest, wittings, wristlet.

+4 letters: entwisted, gigawatts, intwisted, kilowatts, outwrites, retwisted, statewide, strawiest, sweatiest, swiftlets, tawdriest, tightwads, toweriest, twangiest, tweakiest, tweediest, twiggiest, twilights, twirliest, twistiest, twistings, twitchers, untwisted, waistcoat, waitstaff, wateriest, whiteouts, whittlers, whittrets, wintriest, witchiest, withstand, withstood, witticism, wittiness, worthiest, wrathiest, wristiest, wristlets.