Words starting with U

85 words.

• ubicate To find and specify the location of (someone or something); to locate.
• ubication The condition or fact of being in, or occupying, a certain place or position; whereness, ubiety; als
• ubiquitist Widespread; ubiquitous.
• uchronia An idealized or fictional conception of a particular period of time, especially in the past.
• udarnik A shock worker; a super-productive worker in the Soviet Union and the other countries from the Sovie
• ujamaa A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomi
• ukase An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
• ullage To gauge the amount of empty space between the top of a cask and the level of liquid inside it.
• ulmin A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation.
• ultracrepidate to venture beyond one's competence or purview
• ultramontane Promoting the supremacy of the Pope.
• ululate To howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy.
• ululu An auspicious cry uttered by Indian women on festive occasions.
• umbeset To block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.
• umbrere In medieval armour, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a fixed or movable faceg
• umbworld The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.
• unache To relieve from pain; soothe
• unbaleful Not baleful, harmless, innocent.
• unbegun That had no beginning; always existent.
• unbirthday A day that is not one's birthday but is celebrated as though it were.
• unbishop To deprive (e.g. a city etc.) of a bishop.
• undeadly Not subject to death; immortal.
• undercome To come under; experience or suffer the effects of; be affected by; undergo.
• underfong To seduce, entrap; surround, overcome.
• underget To get less than expected or due.
• underhope A lowered expectation or hope.
• underking An inferior or subordinate king; a viceroy.
• undermeal An afternoon meal or snack.
• underroot An underlying root or basis
• undersee To see or look under or below; see below the surface of.
• undersend To send beneath, under, or through; submit.
• underset To set under or beneath.
• understander One who understands something.
• underthink To give insufficient thought or consideration to; fail to consider adequately.
• underthreshold Positioned below a threshold.
• undertoad An underlying threat of disaster beneath the surface of everyday life.
• uneath Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
• unergative Intransitive and having an agent as its subject.
• unfed A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
• unfree A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.
• ungain ungainly; clumsy or awkward
• unget The opposite action of get (in various senses) — To cause to be unbegotten or unborn, or as if unbeg
• ungood Lack or absence of good; goodlessness; bad
• ungreen To expose to air after dyeing in indigo so that the greenish color fades away.
• unguligrade An animal that walks on hooves.
• unhold To unhand, release from one's grasp, let go of.
• unhonest Dishonest, deceptive, misleading.
• univerbation The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words.
• univocal A word having only one meaning.
• unlaw A crime, an illegal action.
• unlight To extinguish, turn off, or dim the light from
• unlove To lose one's love (for someone or something).
• unmight The absence or lack of might; powerlessness; weakness
• unobtainium A fictional material or component which, if it existed, would enable one to easily solve a hard prob
• unreeve To withdraw or take out, as for example a rope from a block.
• unseel To unstitch the seeled eyes of a hawk.
• unthank Lack or absence of thanks or thankfulness; thanklessness; unthankfulness; ill-will.
• unthing Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.
• unthought That which has not been (yet) thought; that which has yet to enter into the mind; a non-existent tho
• unthrift A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
• untime To cause to be done at the wrong time.
• untrust Lack or absence of trust; mistrust.
• unturkey A vegetarian turkey substitute.
• unwill Lack or absence of will; willlessness; undesire.
• unwisdom Lack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly, foolishness.
• unworship Lack of worship or respect; dishonour; failure or refusal to worship; irreverence.
• unworth Not worth; not deserving of.
• upbear To hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
• upcountry Living or situated remote from the seacoast.
• updog A notional, ostensible substance; used to trick a victim into asking "What's updog?".
• upleap To leap up; spring up.
• uplight To light up, illuminate.
• uppluck To pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
• upsend To send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
• upspring To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
• upstand To stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
• urachus A band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
• urstromtal A broad glacial valley formed during an ice age by meltwater flowing roughly parallel to the ice mar
• ushabti In Ancient Egypt, a figurine of a dead person, placed in their tomb to do their work for them in the
• usquebaugh Whiskey or whisky.
• usteq Catastrophic land collapse caused by the melting of permafrost, coastal flooding and erosion.
• usufruct To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.
• usufructuary A person who holds property, or the use of assets, by usufruct; a fructuary.
• utopographer One who describes a utopia.
• uxorious Very devoted and possibly submissive to one's wife; showing excessive uxorial devotion.