| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| ornament that interlaces simulated foliage in an intricate design |
arabesque
|
| string looped over fingers in intricate patterns |
cat's cradle
|
| intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes |
Chinese puzzle
|
| quality of being intricate and compounded |
complexity
,
complexness
|
| make intricate |
complicate
|
| jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat |
cool jazz
|
| cunning and intricate |
daedal
,
insidious
,
treacherous
,
wily
|
| cluster of stars within an intricate cloud of gas and dust |
diffuse nebula
,
gaseous nebula
|
| developing in intricate and painstaking detail |
elaboration
,
working out
|
| intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation |
embroilment
,
imbroglio
|
| intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim |
entanglement
,
web
|
| delicate and intricate ornamentation (usually in gold or silver or other fine twisted wire) |
filagree
,
filigree
,
fillagree
|
| process whereby a protein molecule assumes its intricate three-dimensional shape |
folding
,
protein folding
|
| stencil instrument, intricate |
French curve
|
| United States cartoonist who drew intricate diagrams of very complicated and impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing (1883-1970) |
Goldberg
,
Reuben Lucius Goldberg
,
Rube Goldberg
|
| intricate knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, and cut by the sword of Alexander the Great after he heard that whoever undid it would become ruler of Asia |
Gordian knot
|
| problem, intricate |
Gordian knot
,
imbroglio
,
labyrinth
,
mare's nest
,
morass
,
quagmire
|
| long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction |
involution
|
| puzzle of intricate patterns of lines |
labyrinth
,
maze
|
| passageway, intricate |
labyrinth
,
maze
|
