| ursinia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ursinia grown for their yellow- or orange- or white-rayed flowers | - |
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| urticaria | (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urtication |
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| urtication | (noun) a sensation of having been stung by nettles | - |
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| (noun) an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs | Synonyms: hives, nettle rash, urticaria |
| urus | (noun) large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle | Synonyms: aurochs, Bos primigenius |
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| usability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usableness, useableness |
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| usableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usability, useableness |
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| usage | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usance |
| (noun) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written | - |
| usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
| (noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
| use | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, usage, utilisation, utilization |
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| (noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: habit |
| (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, purpose, role |
| (noun) a particular service | - |
| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: enjoyment |
| (noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use of goods and services |
| useableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usability, usableness |
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| usefulness | (noun) the quality of being of practical use | Synonyms: utility |
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| uselessness | (noun) the quality of having no practical use | Synonyms: inutility, unusefulness |
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| user | (noun) a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something | - |
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| (noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: exploiter |
| (noun) a person who takes drugs | Synonyms: drug user, substance abuser |
| usher | (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: guide |
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| (noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: doorkeeper |
| usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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| using | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, victimisation, victimization |
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| usualness | (noun) commonness by virtue of not being unusual | - |
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| usufruct | (noun) a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way | - |
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| usufructuary | (noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |
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| usurer | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, shylock |
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| usurpation | (noun) wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority) | - |
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| (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, violation |
| usurper | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: supplanter |
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| usury | (noun) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | - |
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| (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: vigorish |
| ut | (noun) the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization | Synonyms: do, doh |
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| utahraptor | (noun) large (20-ft) and swift carnivorous dinosaur having an upright slashing claw 15 inches long on each hind foot; early Cretaceous | Synonyms: superslasher |
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| utensil | (noun) an implement for practical use (especially in a household) | - |
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| uterus | (noun) a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus | Synonyms: womb |
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| utilisation | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, usage, use, utilization |
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| utiliser | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utilizer |
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| utilitarian | (noun) someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | - |
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| utilitarianism | (noun) doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number | - |
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| utility | (noun) the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility | - |
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| (noun) a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal | - |
| (noun) the quality of being of practical use | Synonyms: usefulness |
| (noun) (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer | Synonyms: service program, utility program |
| (noun) a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation | Synonyms: public-service corporation, public utility, public utility company |
| (noun) (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice | - |
| utilization | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation |
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| (noun) the state of having been made use of | - |
| utilizer | (noun) someone who puts to good use | Synonyms: utiliser |
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| utmost | (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, maximum, uttermost |
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| utopia | (noun) a work of fiction describing a utopia | - |
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| (noun) ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects | - |
| utricle | (noun) a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open | Synonyms: utriculus |
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| utriculus | (noun) a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open | Synonyms: utricle |
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| utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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| utterer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer |
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| (noun) someone who circulates forged banknotes or counterfeit coins | - |
| (noun) an organism that can utter vocal sounds | Synonyms: vocaliser, vocalizer |
| uttermost | (noun) the greatest possible degree | Synonyms: level best, maximum, utmost |
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| utterness | (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, starkness |
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| uvea | (noun) the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid | - |
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| uveitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvea of the eye | - |
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| uvula | (noun) a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate | - |
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| uvulitis | (noun) inflammation of the uvula | - |
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| uvulopalatopharyngoplasty | (noun) surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea) | Synonyms: palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, UPPP |
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| uxor | (noun) (legal terminology) the Latin word for wife | Synonyms: ux. |
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| uxoricide | (noun) the murder of a wife by her husband | - |
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| (noun) a husband who murders his wife | - |
| uxoriousness | (noun) foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife | - |
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