**Circumlocation**

<sup>And by proxy: roundabout speech, circumduction, circumvolution, periphrasis, or ambage</sup>

> Roundabout speech refers to using many words (such as "a tool used for
> cutting things such as paper and hair") to describe something for
> which a concise (and commonly known) expression exists

<sup>[source: wikipedia][1]</sup>


  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumlocution