English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 439 of 476

uphill gardenernoun

A homosexual man.

A person traveling uphill.

Heading uphill.

To hoard up.

To hoist up.

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

Capable of being upheld.

upholding, supporting, sustaining (without verbal force)

past participle of uphold

Someone who upholds something.

The act by which something is upheld.

Within the wellbore, towards the top of the hole.

A village and civil parish (spelt Up Holland) in West Lancashire district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5205).

To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).

upholsterableadj

Able to be upholstered.

Covered in or characterized by upholstery.

upholsterernoun

One who upholsters furniture, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.

upholsteringnoun

The padding, springs, webbing, and covers found on furniture.

upholsterousadj

Of or relating to upholstery.

The craft or business of upholstering furniture.

upholstressnoun

A female upholsterer.

To hurl or cast up.

UPInoun

Initialism of user profile information.

A town in the Northern Cape, South Africa.

A person from Uttar Pradesh, India.

An upward jerk.

To jet upward.

A surname from Welsh.

Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.

A kick in an upwards direction performed while on the floor

To kindle upward.

To knit together; to unite.

Up a ladder.

The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.

upland goosenoun

A species of sheldgoose, Chloephaga picta, found in temperate grasslands.

A large extinct species of moa, Megalapteryx didinus.

A person from the uplands.

Of or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.

To lay up; hoard.

The line or lines connecting the output of a transmitter to its antenna.

To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.

To leap up; spring up.

Having greater capabilities or a higher version number.

From, in, or to a higher level of an organization, society, or building.

To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level.

Able to be uplifted.

Lifted upwards, raised.

In an uplifted manner.

upliftednessnoun

The quality of being uplifted.

One who, or that which, uplifts.

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 439. 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.