All twister synonyms

noun twister

• mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
• inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
• waterspout — Also called rainspout. a pipe running down the side of a house or other building to carry away water from the gutter of the roof.
• monsoon — the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
• windstorm — a storm with heavy wind but little or no precipitation.
• brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
• inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
• whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
• cyclone — A cyclone is a violent tropical storm in which the air goes round and round.
• enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
• cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
• grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
• hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
• abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
• closed book — something deemed unknown or incapable of being understood
• line storm — equinoctial storm.
• gordian knot — pertaining to Gordius, ancient king of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that, according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person who was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great.
• whirlwind — any of several relatively small masses of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and advancing simultaneously over land or sea, as a dust devil, tornado, or waterspout.