English Words: U
23,789 words · Page 447 of 476
Speech that has a rising intonation at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question; upspeak.
To gradually increase a dose while observing the effects; (and usually, especially) to arrive at the optimal dose by so doing.
The gradual increase of a dose accompanied by observation of effects, usually and especially to arrive at an optimal dose.
A village and civil parish (served by Upton Pyne and Cowley Parish Council) in East Devon district, north of Exeter, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9197).
A village and civil parish between Westbury and Warminster, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST8647).
An almost vertical line that attaches a float to a bait that is resting on the bed of the river.
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 447. 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.