Vocabulary : Vondsira to Vortex fringe

Vondsira : Same as Vansire.
Voodoo : See Voodooism. ;; One who practices voodooism; a sorcerer. ;; Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.
Voodooism : A form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the people of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
Voortreker : One who treks before or first; a pioneer.
Voracious : Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

Voracity : The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.
Voraginous : Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring.
Vortex : A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy. ;; A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices. ;; Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Vortex filament : A vortex tube of infinitesimal cross section.
Vortex fringe : The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.

Next : Vortex line, Vortex ring, Vortex theory, Vortex tube, Vortexes, Vortical, Vorticel, Vorticella, Vorticellae, Vorticellas
Previous : Vomicine, Vomit, Vomited, Vomiting, Vomition, Vomitive, Vomito, Vomitories, Vomitory, Vomiturition
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary