1) Ambage 2) Circumlocution 3) Roundabout expression 4) Use of circumlocution 5) Verboseness 6) Verbosity 1) Ambage 2) Circumlocution 
In linguistics, periphrasis is a device by which grammatical meaning is expressed by one or more free morphemes (typically one or more function words accompanying a content word), instead of by inflectional affixes or derivation. Periphrastic forms are analytic, whereas the absence of periphrasis is a characteristic of synthesis. While periphrasis...[figure of speech] Animals that were born in 1911. ...
circumlocution; round-about expression
using a wordy phrase to describe something for which one term exists.
• (n.) See Periphrase.
the use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking. In literature ... [1 related articles]
Using a wordy phrase to describe something for which one term exists.
Pe·riph'ra·sis noun ; plural Periphrases . [ Latin ] See Periphrase . 
Something in literature which could be expressed in simple words is written in a complicated or awkward way.
Circumlocution (or roundabout speaking) employed for poetic effect. See kenning.
periphrasis (s), periphrases (pl) 1. The use of circumlocution. 2. The use of an unnecessarily long or roundabout form of expression; circumlocution. 3. A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
The substitution of many or several words where one would suffice; usually to avoid using that particular word.