English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 441 of 476

upon the tapisprep_phrase

Under discussion or consideration.

upon the wholeadv

Dated form of on the whole.

upon'tadv

Contraction of upon + it.

uposathanoun

A regular day of fasting, devotion, or other religious observation

uppedverb

simple past and past participle of up

uppedyadj

Alternative form of uppity.

uppentadj

pent up, confined

upperadj

At a higher level, rank or position.

Upper Arlingtonname

A city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States.

Upper Asianame

In classical antiquity, the part of Asia separated from Asia Minor by the river Kızılırmak/Halys.

Upper Baukonoun

A group of barangays in Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines.

Upper Bavarianame

An administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Munich.

Upper Boatname

A suburban village in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1087).

upper bodynoun

The upper part of the body, usually upwards of the waist.

upper body daynoun

A day dedicated to exercising one's upper body.

upper camel casenoun

The practice of writing identifiers by concatenating multiple component words, each of which is capitalized.

Upper Canadaname

A former British colony located in what is now southern Ontario.

upper casenoun

The capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....

upper chambernoun

The upper legislative chamber in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower chamber.

Upper Chichestername

A township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

upper classnoun

Those people at the top of a social hierarchy.

Upper Corrisname

Synonym of Corris Uchaf, Gwynedd, Wales.

upper crustnoun

The social elite, the highest social class.

upper deckverb

To perform the upper decker prank in the cistern of (a toilet).

upper deckernoun

The prank of defecating in the cistern of a toilet, so that flushing the toilet brings in dirty water instead of clean.

Upper East Sidename

A neighborhood in the northeastern part of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States.

Upper Egyptian Arabicname

A variety of Arabic spoken in Upper Egypt. Language code: aec.

Upper Franconianame

An administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Bayreuth.

Upper Franconianname

one of four main subgroups of the Upper German dialects; spoken in the region of Franconia in northern Bavaria as well as some adjacent parts of Germany

Upper General Lunaname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

Upper Germannoun

One of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.

upper handnoun

Advantage or control.

upper housenoun

The upper legislative house in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower house.

Upper Island Covename

A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Upper Kartliname

Alternative form of Zemo Kartli.

Upper Lusatianame

A historical region in southern Lusatia, in modern Saxony, Poland and Brandenburg.

upper mantlenoun

The layer of Earth's interior located beneath the crust and extending to a depth of 410 kilometers.

Upper Palatinatename

An administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Regensburg.

Upper Peruname

A historical region of colonial South America corresponding to present-day Bolivia.

Upper Quirino Magsaysayname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

upper reachesnoun

The highest or most northerly extremes of something.

Upper Rock Quarryname

A barangay of Baguio, Benguet, Philippines.

Upper Sanduskyname

A city, the county seat of Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.

Upper Southname

The northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, eastern/southern/western Maryland, and southern Delaware.

upper storeynoun

A person's brain.

upper surgerynoun

Synonym of top surgery.

Upper Teanname

A village in Checkley parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0139).

upper ten thousandnoun

The ten thousand people, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.

Upper Voltaname

Former name of Burkina Faso: a country in West Africa, used from 1958-1984.

Upper Voltaicadj

From Upper Volta (previous name of Burkina Faso).

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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 441. 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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