English Words: U
23,789 words · Page 30 of 476
Among the Xhosa, a young male undergoing a group circumcision rite to mark the arrival of adulthood.
Pertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
The environs of a city, town, or village that are part of the main community through common economic and cultural activities.
An assimilatory process whereby a vowel is pronounced more like a following vocoid that is separated by one or more consonants.
Acronym of United Malays National Organisation (“a Malay conservative political party in Malaysia”).
The chemical modification of a functional group with the aim of the reversal of polarity of that group.
An umbrella group of several distinct tribal entities of Native Americans of the Umpqua Basin in present-day south central Oregon, United States.
A syenitic rock consisting of microperthite, arfvedsonite, aegirine and, possibly, nepheline.
A generic ordinal number; a last or one of the latest in a long series; implies repetition.
A beer made from maize, maize malt, sorghum malt, yeast and water, commonly found in South Africa.
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 30. 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.