vers-, vert-, -verse, -version, -version, -versation, -versal, -versary, -vert, vort-, vors-

(Latin: bend, turn)

vortical
Resembling a vortex in form or motion; whirling; as, a vortical motion.
vorticism
1. A short-lived early-20th-century British movement in art and literature that used abstract forms to express concern about the future and the machine age.
2. A short-lived English movement in art and literature that arose in 1914 and was heavily influenced by cubism and futurism.
vortiginous
1. Moving rapidly around a center; vortical (whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column).
2. Whirling, with reference to motion.

Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn": diversi-; diverticul-; flect-, flex-; gyro-; meand-; -plex; streph-; stroph-; tors-; tropo-; verg-; volv-.