English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 433 of 476

Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful.

up goes the donkeyphrase

The performance begins.

Up Helly Aaname

Any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, in Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season.

up hill and down daleadv

Here and there; everywhere.

Angry; incensed; preparing for a fight.

up in the airadj

Not yet resolved, finished, answered, decided or certain.

A railway line on which trains travel towards a major terminus.

In the northern part of an area, country etc.

Well-informed concerning.

up on one's earprep_phrase

Annoyed, angry.

up one's gameverb

Synonym of step up one's game.

up one's own assprep_phrase

Having an excessively high opinion of oneself, excessively preoccupied with one's own affairs, or lost in self-regarding abstraction.

up one's sleeveprep_phrase

Hidden and ready to be produced as needed; in reserve.

up one's sleevesprep_phrase

Alternative form of up one's sleeve.

Smug; arrogant; self-important and self-satisfied.

The practice of forcing employees not promoted in a timely fashion to terminate employment.

Obsolete form of upside down.

up someone's alleyprep_phrase

Matching or corresponding to a person's interests or abilities well.

up someone's assprep_phrase

Prying into or interfering with someone's business (activities, life) so much as to be irritating or annoying to them.

up someone's strasseprep_phrase

Up someone's street.

up someone's streetprep_phrase

Perfectly suitable to someone; matching someone's interests and abilities.

Archaic form of upstairs.

To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.

up the anteverb

To raise the stakes of a hand of poker.

Through receptive anal intercourse.

up the boohaiprep_phrase

Utterly and completely lost; lost in a remote location.

up the creekprep_phrase

In trouble; in a difficult situation.

up the creek without a paddleprep_phrase

Alternative form of up the creek.

up the duffprep_phrase

Pregnant.

pregnant

up the Oxo Towerprep_phrase

Of sexual intercourse: anally.

up the poleprep_phrase

In favour or good repute; strait-laced.

up the riverprep_phrase

To prison.

up the spoutprep_phrase

Broken; not functional or workable; kaput.

up the stickprep_phrase

Pregnant.

up the stumpprep_phrase

At a loss, puzzled, in a bind.

up the wallprep_phrase

crazy, mad

up the wallsprep_phrase

Very busy, swamped.

up the wazooprep_phrase

Synonym of out the wazoo.

up the yin-yangprep_phrase

Synonym of out the wazoo.

up thereprep_phrase

In a position of prominence or importance.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.

up to 11prep_phrase

Alternative form of up to eleven.

up to elevenprep_phrase

Up to or beyond the maximum possible threshold; to an extremely high or strong degree.

up to hereprep_phrase

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up to, here.

up to no goodprep_phrase

Misbehaving, being mischievous.

up to one's eyeballsphrase

Deeply engaged in something, to the point of being overwhelmed.

up to one's eyebrowsphrase

Alternative form of up to one's eyeballs.

up to one's eyesprep_phrase

Synonym of up to one's eyeballs.

up to one's neckprep_phrase

Synonym of up to here.

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 433. 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.