English Words: U
23,789 words · Page 130 of 476
A passage or underpass where a roadway, railway, or infrastructure crosses under another.
A crust that forms the bottom of a pie, tart or other dish; a layer of pastry that supports the filling.
A subculture, a non-dominant culture of a portion of a society, as opposed to the society's overculture.
A current of water which flows under the surface, and often in a different direction from surface currents.
To deal insufficiently or inadequately; have dealings which are below requirement or expectation
Detection at excessively low levels, or at levels lower than are actually the case
Particularly in the theory of scientific explanation, to provide too few constraints to specify a unique solution.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter U contains 23,789 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 476 pages, and you are currently viewing page 130. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "U" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.