English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 463 of 476

Urukeannoun

A native or inhabitant of the ancient city of Uruk.

Urumname

A Turkic language spoken in Ukraine and by a diaspora around the world, including in Georgia.

uruminoun

An Indian sword with a flexible whip-like blade.

Urumtsiname

Dated form of Ürümqi.

urundaynoun

A tree, Myracrodruon balansae (syn. Astronium balansae).

Urungu toadnoun

A true toad of species Sclerophrys urunguensis, of Tanzania and Zambia.

urupanoun

In Māori culture, a burial ground.

urusnoun

The aurochs.

urushinoun

Lacquer from the tree Toxicodendron vernicifluum.

urushiolnoun

An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.

urushiyenoun

A Japanese lacquer picture.

urusovitenoun

A monoclinic-prismatic light green mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, copper, and oxygen.

urutnoun

A traditional Malay massage which involves soft-tissue manipulation of the whole body to alleviate different types of conditions and ailments.

Uruzganname

A province of Afghanistan.

urvanoun

A crab-eating mongoose (Urva urva, syn. Herpestes urva).

urvantsevitenoun

A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal steel gray mineral containing bismuth, lead, and palladium.

Urvashiname

One of the most beautiful apsaras in Hindu mythology.

urwordnoun

Alternative form of ur-word.

Uryname

A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which joins the River Don at Inverurie.

Urysohn's lemmaname

A lemma stating that a topological space is normal if and only if any two disjoint closed subsets can be separated by a continuous function.

urz begeenoun

A master of ceremonies in Iran (Persia) and parts of central Asia.

Urzendowskiname

A surname from Polish.

Urzuaname

A surname.

uræinoun

plural of uræus

uspron

Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)

US Americannoun

Alternative form of U.S. American.

US Grantnoun

Alternative form of U.S. Grant.

US of Americaname

Abbreviation of United States of America.

us versus themnoun

A state of opposition between two groups, mostly based on group membership.

US Virgin Islandsname

Abbreviation of United States Virgin Islands.

us'ennoun

Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).

US'ernoun

A citizen of the United States of America.

us'innoun

Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).

us'scontraction

Contraction of us + is.

us'unnoun

Alternative form of ussun (“someone on the same side of the Northern Irish sectarian divide (from the speaker's perspective)”).

us'unspron

Us. (Compare we-uns.)

us-and-themadj

Being or pertaining to a divisive belief whereby those outside one's immediate circle are regarded as enemies.

us-and-them-ismnoun

An us-and-them attitude or approach.

US-ASCIIname

Synonym of ASCII, especially to differentiate it from 8-bit extended ASCII.

US-ianadj

Alternative form of USian.

us-selvespron

Alternative form of us selves.

US-wideadj

Throughout the United States.

USAname

Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America.

usabilitiesnoun

plural of usability

usabilitynoun

The state or condition of being usable.

usableadj

Capable of being used.

usablenessnoun

The quality of being usable.

usablyadv

In a usable manner.

usagenoun

Habit, practice.

usage guidenoun

A book that explains how to use a standardised language correctly and in keeping with currently accepted style, usually through the explication of what are conservatively viewed as language "errors".

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 463. 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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