English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 437 of 476

Alternative form of updatable.

simple past and past participle of update

One who, or that which, updates.

The act by which something is updated.

The act or process of updating.

A surname from Dutch.

A surname from Dutch.

A surname from Dutch.

Of or relating to John Updike (1932–2009), American novelist and poet.

Alternative form of Updikean.

upward along a dip

To spring upward; to rise

updonoun

A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck

A yoga pose in which the practitioner lies prone with the torso erect, supported by the arms, and the head tilted back.

An upvote.

updooterinonoun

An upvote.

an upward current of air, especially a strong one

To drag up.

Upstream in the direction of drainage.

Alternative spelling of updraft.

To draw up

A rising (over time) of the pitch of the tones of a tonal language.

To dry up.

UPECname

University in France

To end up; to set on end.

One who upends something.

upexpressionnoun

The greater than normal expression of a protein.

A borele or two-horned black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).

UPFnoun

Initialism of ultraprocessed food.

The face that is oriented upwards.

Having an upface.

A horst (area raised relative to surrounding land).

Towards the upper part of a field.

To fill up.

To customize (a product, especially a vehicle) by adding extra features.

To blaze or shine brightly.

To flare upward.

To flash upward; to rise or surface very rapidly.

To flicker upward.

To fling upward.

To float upward.

To flood upward.

An upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.

To flow or stream upwards.

To flower; to reach a state of full development or achievement.

an upward flux

To fly upward.

To fold up.

Any force that acts upwards.

Honest, frank and straightforward.

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 437. 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.