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- VAGINATEAlternative form of vaginated.
- VARICOSEAbnormally swollen, dilated or knotty.
- VESTIGEA mark left on the earth by a foot.
- WADIA valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.
- WENDIGOA malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit mur
- WERGELDBlood money, the monetary value assigned to a person, set according to their rank, used to determine the compensation paid by the perpetrator of a crime to the victim in the case o
- WISTERIAAny of several woody climbing vines, of the genus Wisteria, native to the East Asian countries of China, Korea, and Japan and the eastern United States.
- WROTHFULAlternative form of wrathful.
- WRYNECKEither of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
- WUDUA ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
- XANTHISMA yellowish colouring of pigments in hair, skin, feathers, etc.
- XANTHOMAA small, yellow nodule, rich in cholesterol and other lipids, that occurs in the skin, often near a joint
- XANTHOMASplural of xanthoma
- XENOGRAFTA tissue graft taken from a species different from that of the recipient.
- XENOGRAFTSplural of xenograft
- XENOLOGISTSomeone whose field of study is xenology.
- XENOPHILESplural of xenophile
- XENOPHOBESplural of xenophobe
- XYLOPHONICOf or pertaining to a xylophone.
- YONICIn the shape of a vulva (yoni).
- ZAKATAlmsgiving, usually in the form of an annual tax on certain types of property which is then used for charitable purposes; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
- ZAYINThe seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- ZOETROPEAn optical toy, in which figures made to revolve on the inside of a cylinder, and viewed through slits in its circumference, appear like a single figure passing through a series of
- ZOETROPESplural of zoetrope
- ZOETROPICOf, pertaining to, or reminiscent of a zoetrope.
- ZOOPHILEA person sexually attracted to non-human animals.
- ZOOPHILESplural of zoophile
- ZOOPHILIAA paraphilia involving the sexual attraction of people to non-human animals.
- ZOOTA zoot suit.