English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 438 of 476

upfrontnessnoun

The quality of being upfront.

upfuckerynoun

The condition of being fucked up; a severe mess or problem; chaos.

upfuladj

optimistic; uplifting; positive

upfurlverb

To furl upward.

UPGnoun

Initialism of unverified or unsubstantiated personal gnosis; in neopagan communities, beliefs and knowledge derived from the subjective experiences, revelation, or intuition of an individual rather than established tradition or lore.

upgangnoun

The act of ascending a slope; ascent.

upgatherverb

To gather up; to contract; to draw together.

upgaugeverb

What an airline does when it replaces an originally scheduled aircraft with a larger one of a similar type.

upgazenoun

The act of looking upward.

upgearverb

To shift to a higher gear

upgirdverb

To support or hold up.

upgiveverb

To give up or yield up.

upglancenoun

An upwards glance.

upglidenoun

An upward glide.

upgoverb

to go up

upgoingadj

Trending positive.

upgradabilitynoun

Capability of being improved in functionality by the addition or replacement of components.

upgradableadj

Having the capacity to undergo an upgrade.

upgradationnoun

Upgrade; upgrading.

upgradenoun

An upward grade or slope.

upgradeableadj

Alternative form of upgradable.

upgradernoun

One who, or that which, upgrades.

upgradientadj

A position up along a gradient from a starting position.

upgradingverb

present participle and gerund of upgrade

upgrowverb

To grow up

upgrowingnoun

The process of growth or maturation; growing up

upgrowthnoun

The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

upgushnoun

A gushing upward.

upgushingnoun

That which gushes upward.

Uphallname

A village in West Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT0571).

Uphamname

A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.

uphandadj

Designed to be lifted by the hand, or by both hands

uphandedadj

With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.

uphangverb

To hang up.

upharrowverb

To tear up.

uphaulverb

To haul upwards.

upheapverb

To pile or heap up; accumulate.

upheapingnoun

Ascension; addition to full measure, accumulation.

upheartedadj

Optimistic; positive in mood or spirit; cheerful.

upheavalnoun

Disruptive change, from one state to another.

upheavalismnoun

The practice or policy of social or political upheaval.

upheavalistnoun

A proponent of upheavalism.

upheaveverb

To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.

upheavernoun

One who upheaves.

upheavingnoun

upheaval

upheldverb

simple past and past participle of uphold

uphelmverb

To put the helm to windward.

uphilladv

Up a slope, towards higher ground.

uphill battlenoun

A highly difficult task or problem that requires a great amount of effort and determination.

uphill climbnoun

Synonym of uphill battle.

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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 438. 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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