English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 434 of 476

up to one's neck in alligatorsphrase

Extremely busy; having many pressing obligations, distractions, etc., consuming one's time.

up to paradv

At the usual or expected level.

up to scratchadj

sufficient; adequate; of acceptable or satisfactory quality

up to snuffadj

Adequate; of acceptable quality; satisfying an appropriate standard.

up to somethingadj

Doing something mischievous or scheming.

up to speedprep_phrase

Fully informed; current.

up to the hubprep_phrase

As far as possible in embarrassment or difficulty, or in business; deeply involved.

up to the markprep_phrase

Possessing adequate knowledge or skill.

up untilprep

until

up what springphrase

What the hell are you saying?

up with the larkadj

Awake and out of bed early in the morning.

up your nose with a rubber hosephrase

A derisive insult.

up yoursintj

Expression to show discontent with the other party, or to show contempt.

up-and-comingadj

Emerging; aspiring; beginning to attract attention or critical acclaim.

up-and-comingnessnoun

The state of being up-and-coming.

up-and-downnessnoun

The state of being up-and-down.

up-and-undernoun

Alternative form of up and under.

up-endverb

To turn (something) upside down, to invert (something).

up-front moneynoun

Alternative form of front money.

up-frontnessnoun

Alternative form of upfrontness.

up-gunverb

To equip with additional guns or more powerful guns.

up-handedadj

Alternative form of uphanded.

up-mindedadj

Up-beat; positive; progressive.

up-plowverb

To plow up; tear up as by plowing.

up-pulledadj

Pulled up.

up-puttingnoun

The act of erecting or raising.

up-to-dateadj

Current; recent; the latest.

up-to-datenessnoun

The quality or degree of being up to date.

up-to-datismnoun

The habit or policy of staying up to date.

up-to-no-goodernoun

A mischievious or misbehaved person; a reprobate.

up-to-the-minuteadj

modern, contemporary

upadacitinibnoun

A medication belonging to the class of Janus kinase inhibitors, used for the treatment of several immune-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and atopic dermatitis.

upadaisyintj

Used when lifting a child.

Upadhyayname

A surname from Hindi.

Upadhyayaname

A surname from Hindi.

upaithricadj

Alternative form of hupaithric (“roofless, open to the sky”).

upalatornoun

An escalator going upwards.

Upaliname

One of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha.

upalitenoun

A monoclinic mineral containing aluminium, uranium, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen.

upalongadv

Toward the mainland.

upanayananoun

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.

Upanishadnoun

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 the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.

Upanishadicadj

Pertaining to the Upanishads.

uparchverb

To cause to arch upward.

uparchingverb

present participle and gerund of uparch

upasnoun

A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.

Upasananame

A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

upazilanoun

After divisions and districts, the third largest type of administrative division in Bangladesh.

upbacknoun

A blocking back who lines up approximately one to three yards behind the line of scrimmage in punting situations.

upbarverb

To fasten with a bar.

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 434. 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.

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