English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 444 of 476

One who, or that which, uproots.

second-person singular simple present indicative of uproot

third-person singular simple present indicative of uproot

A tearing up.

To rouse up; rouse from sleep; awake; arouse.

To run up; ascend.

An upwards rush.

That uprushes or rushes upward.

UPSverb

To connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.

ups and downsnoun

Periods of positive and negative events, moods, or interactions; highs and lows.

An affectionate encouragement to a child who has fallen over or is being lifted up.

An act of upselling.

To increase the sampling rate of (a signal).

A process or algorithm that upsamples.

upscalabilitynoun

The condition of being upscalable.

That can be upscaled

Expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.

upscalenessnoun

The quality of being upscale.

Someone or something which upscales.

An upward scan.

An upward scatter.

Subject to upscattering

upscatteringnoun

The increase in wavelength of radiation scattered by an electron

An improved or higher score.

To seal up.

Towards the higher part of a section.

After the fashion of; a la.

To seek or strain upward.

To persuade a customer to buy more items, or more expensive items, than they had intended.

Agent noun of upsell: one who upsells.

To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.

An employee of UPS.

To insert rows into a database table if they do not already exist, or update them if they do.

The act of upserting.

Angry, distressed, or unhappy

upset pricenoun

The lowest price at which an auction item may be sold.

upset the apple cartverb

Alternative form of upset the applecart.

upset the applecartverb

To disorganize or spoil something, especially an established arrangement or plan.

upset the nativesverb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upset, native.

upset the potverb

To beat the favourite in a race.

In an upset manner.

The quality of being upset; emotional distress.

The quality or degree of being emotionally upset.

Alternative form of upset.

Capable of being upset (overturned).

So as to be upsettable.

upsettednessnoun

The state or condition of being upset; upsetness.

One who upsets (something); a disrupter.

upsettermannoun

A worker who operates an upsetter (forging machine).

second-person singular simple present indicative of upset

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 444. 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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