English words: UOP to Updikean
300 English words, part 79 of 88 of the words starting with U, A to Z. 20 have a page of their own.
English words UOP to Updikean
- UOP noun: Initialism of user operation prohibition: a deliberate restriction preventing the viewer from skipping advertisements, copyright messages, etc. in certain...
- UOR noun: Initialism of urgent operational requirement.
- uORF noun: Acronym of upstream open reading frame.
- uORFs noun: Plural acronym for "upstream open reading frames".
- -uous suffix: Alternative form of -eous.
- up adjective, adverb, noun, prefix, preposition, verb /ʌp/: Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.
- up a close prepositional phrase: Synonym of up a tree (“in a difficult situation”).
- up a creek prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up the creek.
- up a creek without a paddle prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up the creek.
- up a gum tree prepositional phrase: In a difficult situation; in a predicament.
- up a height adjective: High up.
- up a storm prepositional phrase: In a remarkable or excited manner.
- up a stump prepositional phrase: At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.
- up a tree prepositional phrase: In or into a disadvantaged or difficult situation; at a loss; cornered.
- up above noun: An upward location. (Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, above.)
- up against preposition: Facing; challenging, or opposing.
- up against it prepositional phrase: In a very difficult position.
- up against the ropes prepositional phrase: Synonym of on the ropes
- up against the wall adjective: Trapped, cornered; discommoded, discomfited; in a quandary.
- up and adverb: Abruptly; unexpectedly.
- up and about adjective: Out of bed and performing one's everyday activities (especially after illness).
- up and around adjective: Alternative form of up and about.
- up and at 'em phrase: Vigorously launched or launching into an activity.
- up and away adverb: Moving quickly and continuously upwards, often with a sense of joy or excitement.
- up-and-comer noun: Someone who is up-and-coming, who has begun to be successful in some field and is likely to be even more successful in the future.
- up and coming adjective: Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.
- up-and-comingness noun: The state of being up-and-coming.
- up and disappear verb: To disappear abruptly.
- up and down adjective, adverb: Upward and downward, alternately.
- up and down house noun: A two-storey house
- up and down straight draw noun: A poker hand that has four cards to a straight, where there are two different ranked cards that will complete the straight. E.g. 4-5-6-7, either a 3 or 8...
- up-and-downness noun: The state of being up-and-down.
- up and go verb: Synonym of up and leave.
- up and leave verb: To leave abruptly.
- up and over door noun: A door that is hinged so that, when it opens, the bottom part rises vertically and the top part is drawn back; often used in garages.
- up and running adjective: operational, in operation
- up and under noun: Alternative form of up and under.
- up antiquark noun: the antiparticle of an up quark
- up-armored adjective: Having had its armor upgraded.
- up-armoured adjective: Alternative form of up-armored.
- up-beat adjective: Alternative spelling of upbeat.
- up bow noun: movement from the tip to the frog on the bow of a stringed instrument
- up bubble adjective: Having an upward trim (of a submarine); where the bow is higher than the stern.
- up bup bup interjection [ʌp̚.bʌp̚.bʌp̚]: Alternative form of bup-bup-bup.
- up close adverb: At very close range.
- up close and personal prepositional phrase: With intimate detail and from a perspective of closeness, sometimes with the implication of intrusiveness or invasion of privacy.
- up-cycle noun: Alternative form of upcycle (“period of a cycle where something is growing or increasing”).
- up-do noun: Alternative form of updo.
- up-end verb: To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).
- up for preposition: Willing to participate in; interested in.
- up for grabs prepositional phrase: Available for anyone to obtain, claim, decide, or win.
- up for sale adjective: for sale; on sale; available for sale
- up for the downstroke adjective: Ready to get funky; ready to dance with abandon.
- up from preposition: Used to indicate a numerical increase compared to a previous value or baseline; higher than, or increased relative to.
- up front adjective, adverb: Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful.
- up-front money noun: Alternative form of front money.
- up-frontness noun: Alternative form of upfrontness.
- up gaze noun: Alternative spelling of upgaze.
- up goes the donkey phrase: The performance begins.
- up-gun verb: To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.
- up-handed adjective, adverb: Alternative form of uphanded.
- up here noun: high five
- up hill and down dale adverb: Here and there; everywhere.
- up hill and down dell adverb: Alternative form of up hill and down dale.
- up in arms adjective: Angry; incensed; preparing for a fight.
- up in one's grill prepositional phrase: In one's personal space in an intrusive or aggressive manner; up in one's business
- up in the air adjective, adverb: Not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain.
- up-jumped adjective: Alternative form of upjumped.
- up line adjective, noun: A railway line on which trains travel towards a major terminus.
- up-minded adjective: Up-beat; positive; progressive.
- up north adverb: In the northern part of an area, country etc.
- up on adjective: Well-informed concerning.
- up on one's ear prepositional phrase: Annoyed, angry.
- up one's game verb: Synonym of step up one's game.
- up one's sleeve prepositional phrase: Hidden and ready to be produced as needed; in reserve.
- up one's sleeves prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up one's sleeve.
- up oneself adjective: Smug; arrogant; self-important and self-satisfied.
- up or out adjective, noun: The practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.
- up-over noun: A method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.
- up-plow verb: To plow up; tear up as by plowing.
- up-pulled adjective: Pulled up.
- up-putting noun, verb: The act of erecting or raising.
- up quark noun: A quark having a fractional electric charge of +2/3 and a mass of about 1.5 to 4 MeV.
- up-regulate verb: Alternative spelling of upregulate.
- up-regulation noun: Alternative spelling of upregulation.
- up round noun: A round of financing for a company that raises capital at a higher share price (or sometimes a higher company valuation) than the previous round.
- up someone's alley prepositional phrase: Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well.
- up someone's strasse prepositional phrase: Up someone's street.
- up someone's street prepositional phrase: Perfectly suitable to someone; matching someone's interests and abilities.
- up spirits noun: The time, around midday, when sailors were given the daily rum ration.
- up stick verb: Alternative form of up sticks.
- up sticks verb /ˌʌp ˈstɪks/: To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.
- up tack noun: The IPA diacritic ⟨˔⟩, used to denote a raised phone.
- up the aisle prepositional phrase: Towards getting married.
- up the ante verb: To raise the stakes of a hand of poker.
- up the booai prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up the boohai.
- up the boohai prepositional phrase: Utterly and completely lost; lost in a remote location.
- up the country people noun: people from any part of Ireland except northeast Ulster
- up the creek prepositional phrase: In trouble; in a difficult situation.
- up the creek without a paddle prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up the creek.
- up the duff prepositional phrase: Pregnant.
- up the flume prepositional phrase: done for; ruined; having come to grief
- up the game verb: Synonym of step up one's game.
- up the gut adverb: Describing a play in American football in which the player runs the ball through the middle of the field through defenders.
- up the kyte adjective: pregnant
- up the Oxo Tower prepositional phrase: Of sexual intercourse: anally.
- up the pole prepositional phrase: In favour or good repute; strait-laced; teetotal.
- up the river prepositional phrase: To prison.
- up the spout prepositional phrase: Broken; not functional or workable; kaput.
- up the stick prepositional phrase: Pregnant.
- up the stump prepositional phrase: At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.
- up the wall prepositional phrase: crazy, mad
- up the walls prepositional phrase: Very busy, swamped.
- up there prepositional phrase: In a position of prominence or importance.
- up-tick noun: Alternative form of uptick.
- up-tight adjective: Alternative form of uptight.
- up till preposition: Until.
- up to adjective, preposition /ˈʌp tuː/: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.
- up to 11 prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up to eleven.
- up to a point adverb: To a certain extent, to an extent.
- up to anything prepositional phrase: Capable of and ready for any kind of mischief.
- up to bat adjective: Preparing to have or having one's turn to attempt to hit the ball.
- up to code adjective, adverb: Following building codes; compliant with all relevant laws and regulations.
- up to date adjective, noun /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/: Current; recent; the latest.
- up-to-dateness noun: The quality or degree of being up to date.
- up-to-datism noun: The habit or policy of staying up to date.
- up to eleven prepositional phrase, verb /ˌʌp tə ɪˈlɛvən/: Up to or beyond the maximum possible threshold; to an extremely high or strong degree.
- up to here prepositional phrase: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up to, here.
- up to no good prepositional phrase /ˌʌp tə ˌnoʊ ˈɡʊd/: Misbehaving, being mischievous.
- up-to-no-gooder noun: A mischievious or misbehaved person; a reprobate.
- up to now adverb: Until now; as of now.
- up to one's chin prepositional phrase: Synonym of up to here.
- up to one's ears prepositional phrase: up to here
- up to one's elbows prepositional phrase: Completely engrossed.
- up to one's eyeballs phrase: Deeply engaged in something, to the point of being overwhelmed.
- up to one's eyebrows phrase: Alternative form of up to one's eyeballs.
- up to one's eyes prepositional phrase: Synonym of up to one's eyeballs.
- up to one's neck prepositional phrase: Synonym of up to here.
- up to one's neck in alligators phrase: Extremely busy; having many pressing obligations, distractions, etc., consuming one's time.
- up to one's old tricks prepositional phrase: Engaging in mischievous behavior considered typical of oneself.
- up to par adverb: At the usual or expected level.
- up to scratch adjective: sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality
- up to snuff adjective: Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.
- up to something adjective /ˈʌp tuː ˈsʌmθɪŋ/: Doing something mischievous or scheming.
- up to speed prepositional phrase: Fully informed; current.
- up to standard adjective: Of a necessary standard of quality for its intended use.
- up to the chin prepositional phrase: Synonym of up to here.
- up to the elbows prepositional phrase: Alternative form of up to one's elbows.
- up to the hammer prepositional phrase: first-rate; excellent
- up to the hub prepositional phrase: As far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business; deeply involved.
- up to the knocker prepositional phrase: Up to the required standard; excellent.
- up to the mark prepositional phrase: Possessing adequate knowledge or skill.
- up-to-the-minute adjective: modern, contemporary
- up to the nines prepositional phrase: Streetwise; knowing.
- up to the tonsils prepositional phrase: Alternative form of to the tonsils.
- up to time prepositional phrase: On time; punctual.
- up top adverb, interjection: Up at the top.
- up until preposition: until
- up what spring phrase: What the hell are you saying?
- up-wing fly noun: Alternative form of upwing fly.
- up-winged fly noun: Alternative form of upwing fly.
- up with the chickens adjective: Awake and out of bed early in the morning.
- up with the lark adjective: Awake and out of bed early in the morning.
- up with the larks adjective: Alternative form of up with the lark.
- up your nose with a rubber hose phrase: A derisive insult.
- upadacitinib noun: A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of several immune-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis,...
- upadaisy interjection: Used when lifting a child.
- Upadhyay proper noun: A surname from Hindi.
- Upadhyaya proper noun: A surname from Hindi.
- upaithric adjective: Alternative form of hupaithric (“roofless, open to the sky”).
- upalator noun: An escalator going upwards.
- upalite noun: A monoclinic mineral containing aluminium, uranium, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen.
- upalong adverb: Toward the mainland.
- upanayana noun /uːpəˈnɑːjənə/: An initiation ceremony undergone by Hindu boys over the age of seven belonging to the highest three castes, marking the start of their formal education.
- Upanishad noun: Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of...
- Upanishadic adjective: Pertaining to the Upanishads.
- Upapurana noun: Any of a group of Hindu religious texts of secondary importance compared with the Puranas.
- uparch verb: To cause to arch upward.
- uparching noun, verb: An arching upward.
- uparmored adjective: Alternative form of up-armored.
- uparmoured adjective: Alternative form of up-armored.
- uparna noun: A long cloth worn over the shoulder.
- upas noun: A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
- Upasana proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
- upazila noun /uːˈpɒd͡ʒɪlə/: An administrative division under districts, broadly equivalent to a subdistrict.
- UPB noun: Initialism of unpaid principal balance.
- upback noun: A blocking back who lines up approximately one to three yards behind the line of scrimmage in punting situations.
- upbar verb /ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/: To fasten with a bar.
- upbay adjective: Towards the source of a bay.
- upbear verb: To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
- upbearer noun: One who upbears or upholds.
- upbearing noun, verb: A bearing up; support
- upbeat adjective, noun /ʌpˈbit/: Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
- upbeatly adverb: In an upbeat manner.
- upbeatness noun: The state or condition of being upbeat.
- upbelch verb: To belch upward.
- upbend noun, verb: to bend upwards
- upbid noun, verb: To bid upward.
- upbind verb /ʌpˈbaɪnd/: To bind up.
- upblast verb: To blast upward.
- upblaze noun, verb: To blaze or shoot up.
- upblow verb: To inflate.
- upblowing adjective, noun, verb: Blowing in an upward direction
- upboil verb: To boil upward.
- upboost verb: to boost up
- upbound adjective, adverb: Directed or moving up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream
- upbounden adjective: bound up
- upbow noun, verb /ˈʌpbəʊ/: A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow upward or to the left across the instrument, moving the point of contact from the bow's tip...
- upbrace verb: To brace up.
- upbraid noun, verb /ˌʌpˈbɹeɪd/: To criticize severely.
- upbraider noun: One who upbraids.
- upbraiding adjective, noun, verb: Reproachful; chiding; censorious.
- upbraidingly adverb: So as to upbraid; scoldingly.
- upbray verb: To upbraid.
- upbreak noun, verb: To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
- upbreaking noun, verb: The action of something that escapes or flies upward.
- upbreathe verb: To breathe up or out; to exhale.
- upbreed verb /ʌpˈbɹiːd/: To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
- upbreeze adjective, noun: upwind
- upbrighten verb: To make or become brighter.
- upbrim verb: To brim upwards
- upbring verb: To bring up.
- upbringing noun /ˈʌpˌbrɪŋɪŋ/: The traits acquired during one's childhood training
- upbristling adjective: Bristling upward.
- upbubble verb: To bubble upward.
- upbuild verb: To build up (literally).
- upbuilder noun: Someone who upbuilds; a developer
- upbuilding noun, verb: The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.
- upbulging adjective: Bulging upward.
- upbuoy verb: To buoy up.
- upbuoyance noun: The act of buoying up; uplifting.
- upburn verb: To burn; to blaze up.
- upburst noun: The act of bursting upwards
- upbursting noun: A bursting upward.
- UPC noun: Initialism of Unified Patent Court.
- UPC code noun: Universal product code.
- upcall noun, verb: A call from a lower-level subsystem, such as a kernel or framework, to a higher-level subsystem, such as user code.
- upcanyon adjective, adverb: Closer to the top of a canyon
- upcard noun: In stud poker or blackjack, a playing card dealt face up and left on the table for others to see.
- upcarried adjective: Carried upward.
- upcasing noun: The act of converting all letters to be uppercase.
- upcast adjective, noun, verb /ˈʌpkæst/: Cast up; thrown upward.
- upcaught adjective: Seized or caught up.
- upcharge noun, verb: A surcharge for something additional, especially an upgrade (optional amenity).
- upchat adverb: Earlier or higher up in a chat room conversation or message thread.
- upcheer verb: To cheer up.
- upchirp noun: A chirp (pulse) that rises in frequency over time.
- upchuck noun, verb: Vomit.
- Upchurch proper noun: A village and civil parish in Swale district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ8467).
- upcity adjective: Synonym of uptown.
- upclimb verb /ʌpˈklaɪm/: To climb up; to ascend.
- upclock verb: To increase the clock speed of.
- upclose verb: To close up.
- upcoast adjective: Upstream in the direction of coastal currents.
- upcode noun, verb /ˈʌpkəʊd/: The behavioral norms which influence how software (or "downcode") is produced.
- upcoil verb: To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.
- upcome noun, verb: To ascend, rise; grow up; come up.
- upcomer noun: Eggcorn of up-and-comer.
- upcoming adjective, noun, verb: Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
- upconcentrate verb: To increase the concentration of one component of a mixture
- upconjure verb: To conjure up.
- upconversion noun: The process by which two photons combine in a nonlinear medium to produce a higher-energy photon with a frequency that is the sum of those of the two photons
- upconvert verb: To convert (an audio or video signal, etc.) from a lower quality or resolution to a higher one.
- upconverted adjective: Modified using upconversion.
- upconverter noun: A device or software that upconverts.
- upcore adjective: Describing a sample taken from further up a core.
- Upcott proper noun: A surname from Old English.
- upcountry adjective, adverb, noun: Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
- upcourt adverb: Toward a team's offensive basket, the basket at which points are scored
- upcraned adjective: Craned upward.
- upcrawl verb: To crawl upward.
- upcreek adverb: Towards the source of a creek.
- upcreep noun, verb: A gradual movement upwards.
- upcropping noun: Something that crops up, or occurs unexpectedly.
- upcrossing noun: An upward crossing of a threshold.
- upcry noun, verb: To outcry.
- upcurl noun, verb: To curl up.
- upcurrent noun: An upward-moving current.
- upcurve noun, verb: An upward curve.
- upcurved adjective: Curving upwards.
- upcut noun, verb: To cut (audio or video) too short, so that a small portion is lost or overlaps the adjoining item.
- upcycle noun, verb /ˈʌpsaɪk(ə)l/: To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
- upcycled adjective, verb /ˈʌpsaɪk(ə)ld/: Of waste materials, etc.: converted into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
- upcycler noun: One who upcycles.
- upcycling noun, verb /ˈʌpsaɪklɪŋ/: The act of converting (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.
- UPD noun: Initialism of uniparental disomy.
- updart verb: To dart upward.
- updatability noun: The condition of being updatable
- updatable adjective: That can be updated.
- update noun, verb /ˈʌp.deɪt/: An additional piece of information, an addition to existing information.
- update one's priors verb: To change one's beliefs in the face of new evidence.
- updateability noun /ˈʌp.deɪtəˈbɪlɪti/: The quality of being updateable.
- updateable adjective: Alternative form of updatable.
- updated adjective, verb /ʌpˈdeɪtɪd/: up-to-date
- updater noun: One who, or that which, updates.
- updating noun, verb: The act by which something is updated.
- updation noun: The act or process of updating.
- Updegraff proper noun: A surname from Dutch.
- Updike proper noun /ˈʌpdaɪk/: A surname from Dutch.
- Updikean adjective: Of or relating to John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist and poet.
Part 78 · Part 80 · English words: U
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under U: 26,317 words, in 88 parts.