English Words: U

23,789 words · Page 8 of 476

uhlannoun

A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

uhligitenoun

A black isometric mineral containing aluminium, calcium, oxygen, titanium and zirconium.

Uhlirname

A surname from Czech.

uhllonoun

abalone shells, used in trade by the Native Americans

Uhlyshchename

A village in Klevan hromada, Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, founded in 1596

Uhnivname

A city in Belz hromada, Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.

uhohintj

Alternative form of uh-oh.

Uhthoff's phenomenonname

The worsening of neurological symptoms in multiple sclerosis and similar conditions when the body becomes overheated.

uhtsongnoun

Matins.

uhurunoun

freedom

UInoun

Initialism of unemployment insurance.

Uighurnoun

Alternative spelling of Uyghur.

uigitenoun

A variety of chlorastrolite found on the island of Skye.

Uigurname

Alternative form of Uyghur.

Uijeongbuname

A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Uijuname

A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.

Uileacu de Beiușname

A village and commune of Bihor County, Romania.

uilleann pipenoun

singular of uilleann pipes, (normally used in plural).

uilleann pipernoun

One who plays uilleann pipes.

uilleann pipesnoun

The bagpipes of Ireland, which have a bellows strapped around the wrist and arm to inflate the bag rather than the player blowing to do so.

uintnoun

Abbreviation of unsigned integer.

Uinta chipmunknoun

Neotamias umbrinus, a chipmunk endemic to the United States.

Uinta Countyname

One of 23 counties in Wyoming, United States. County seat: Evanston.

Uinta Mountainsname

A subrange of the Rocky Mountains in northeastern Utah extending a short distance into northwest Colorado and slightly into southwestern Wyoming.

Uintah Countyname

One of 29 counties in Utah, United States. County seat: Vernal.

uintaitenoun

gilsonite

Uintasname

Synonym of Uinta Mountains.

uintjienoun

The edible bulb of certain plants.

Uistname

An archipelago of the Western Isles council area, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, consisting of North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and several smaller islands.

Uitgeestname

A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.

Uithoornname

A village and municipality of North Holland, Netherlands.

uitlandernoun

A foreigner; outlander.

Uivarname

A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.

UJAname

Initialism of United Jewish Appeal.

Ujahname

A surname.

ujamaanoun

A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.

ujinoun

A Japanese clan or kin group of the Kofun period.

Ujiiyename

A surname from Japanese.

ujimanoun

Collective work and responsibility, in the context of African-American culture.

Ujiyamadaname

Former name of Ise: a city in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

Ujjainname

A city in Ujjain district in the region of Malwa in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

ujjayinoun

A diaphragmatic breath technique used in a variety of Taoist and yoga practices.

Ujjwalname

A surname.

UKname

Initialism of United Kingdom

UK plcname

The United Kingdom commercial community considered as a single organization; or the commercial interests of the United Kingdom considered as a whole

ukasenoun

An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.

ukay-ukaynoun

a Philippine store where secondhand items such as clothes, bags, shoes and other accessories are sold at a cheap price and often rummaged by buyers; thrift shop; second-hand shop

ukenoun

Clipping of ukulele.

uke-enoun

A kind of ukiyo-e (“Japanese painting or woodblock print showing a scene of everyday life”) depicting an auspicious subject, which was popular in Japan during the late 1800s.

ukelinnoun

A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.

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 8. 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.