English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 448 of 476

Higher in a tree data structure.

An upward trend, or an upturn.

An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.

Turned over; inverted; capsized.

third-person singular simple present indicative of upturn

present participle and gerund of upturn

To twist upward.

To twist upward.

A hoopoe.

In the direction of flow up a valley.

A free variable that has been bound (closed over) with a closure.

A vote for something that increases a cumulative tally of popularity.

One who upvotes.

third-person singular simple present indicative of upvote

To waft upward.

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin.

upward lightningnoun

An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, in which the lightning bolt projects straight into the upper atmosphere.

upward mobilitynoun

Ability to advance to better-paid or better-regarded social strata.

upward ofphrase

more than

In an upward manner.

upwardly mobileadj

Likely to advance in economic or social standing.

Quality of being or going upward.

upwardnessesnoun

plural of upwardness

Towards a (higher) position closer to the sky than the ground.

More than; in excess of.

A broad anticline caused by local uplift.

The process of forming an upwarp.

upward air turbulence caused by a propeller or jet

To give a greater weight (or importance) to.

upweightingverb

present participle and gerund of upweight

third-person singular simple present indicative of upweight

To well up; surge upwards.

An upward movement from a lower source.

To wheel upward.

To rise upward in a whirl.

To rise with a whirring sound.

exposed to the wind

That winds upwards.

Holding the forewings together above the body.

A surname.

An anticline.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke does.

Alternative form of upwreath.

To wrench upward; to tear up or uproot.

wrought-up

To yield up; to give or surrender.

upzadj

Exceptional or hardworking in a way that commands respect or makes oneself prominent; outstanding in terms of ability or character.

To rezone for more intensive use.

Relating to the Uqaylid dynasty.

A county of Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.

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 448. 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.