12 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
adjective roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ; -T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
originBorrowed from Ancient Greek περιφραστικός (periphrastikós), from περίφρασις (períphrasis, “periphrasis”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0