| ansa | a looped handle. | |
| gyrose | covered with wavy lines. | |
| sulcus | a groove or furrow. | |
| Grolier | pertaining to a decorative design of interlaced bands used in bookbinding. | |
| guilloche | an ornamental pattern of interlacing curvilinear lines, esp. a band of two ribbons twining around circular voids. | |
| oblate/prolate | (of a spheroid) squashed or stretched, respectively. | |
| cissoid/sistroid | the biconcave and biconvex quadrants, respectively, of the intersection between two curves. | |
| running dog | a scroll in a stylized wave pattern (also |Vitruvian scroll|). | |
| synclastic | (math.) having principal curvatures of the same sign at a given point: egg-like, rather than saddle-like. (ant. |anticlastic|) | |
| wimple | (Scot.) a fold or wrinkle, a curve or bend; to wrap; to ripple; to follow a curving course. | |
| gyrovague | a wandering monk. |