English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 435 of 476

upbearverb

To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high

upbearernoun

One who upbears or upholds.

upbearingnoun

A bearing up; support

upbeatadj

Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.

upbeatlyadv

In an upbeat manner.

upbeatnessnoun

The state or condition of being upbeat.

upbelchverb

To belch upward.

upbendverb

to bend upwards

upbidverb

To bid upward.

upbindverb

To bind up.

upblastverb

To blast upward.

upblazeverb

To blaze or shoot up.

upblowverb

To inflate.

upblowingadj

Blowing in an upward direction

upboilverb

To boil upward.

upboostverb

to boost up

upboundadj

Directed or moving up or in a direction conventionally considered up; upstream

upboundenadj

bound up

upbownoun

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 toward the frog.

upbraceverb

To brace up.

upbraidverb

To criticize severely.

upbraidernoun

One who upbraids.

upbraidestverb

second-person singular simple present indicative of upbraid

upbraidethverb

third-person singular simple present indicative of upbraid

upbraidingnoun

An instance of severe criticism or rebuke.

upbraidinglyadv

So as to upbraid; scoldingly.

upbrayverb

To upbraid.

upbreakverb

To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

upbreakingnoun

The action of something that escapes or flies upward.

upbreatheverb

To breathe up or out; to exhale.

upbreedverb

To rear, or bring up; to nurse.

upbreezeadj

upwind

upbrightenverb

To make or become brighter.

upbrimverb

To brim upwards

upbringverb

To bring up.

upbringingnoun

The traits acquired during one's childhood training

upbringingsnoun

plural of upbringing

upbubbleverb

To bubble upward.

upbuildverb

To build up (literally).

upbuildingnoun

The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.

upbulgingadj

Bulging upward.

upbuoyverb

To buoy up.

upbuoyancenoun

The act of buoying up; uplifting.

upburnverb

To burn; to blaze up.

upburstnoun

The act of bursting upwards

upburstingnoun

A bursting upward.

upcallnoun

A call from a lower-level subsystem, such as a kernel or framework, to a higher-level subsystem, such as user code.

upcanyonadj

Closer to the top of a canyon

upcardnoun

In stud poker or blackjack, a playing card dealt face up and left on the table for others to see.

upcarriedadj

Carried upward.

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 435. 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.