| unicorn | (noun) an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead | - |
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| unicycle | (noun) a vehicle with a single wheel that is driven by pedals | Synonyms: monocycle |
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| unicyclist | (noun) a person who rides a unicycle | - |
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| unification | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, union, uniting |
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| (noun) an occurrence that involves the production of a union | Synonyms: fusion, merger |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: union |
| uniform | (noun) clothing of distinctive design worn by members of a particular group as a means of identification | - |
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| uniformity | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformness |
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| (noun) a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying | - |
| uniformness | (noun) the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom) | Synonyms: uniformity |
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| unilateralism | (noun) the doctrine that nations should conduct their foreign affairs individualistically without the advice or involvement of other nations | - |
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| unilateralist | (noun) an advocate of unilateralism | - |
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| unilaterality | (noun) The state or quality of being unilateral; one-sidedness. | - |
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| unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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| (noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
| uninitiate | (noun) people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | - |
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| uninsurability | (noun) the quality of being uninsurable; the conditions under which an insurance company will refuse to issue insurance to an applicant (based on standards set by the insurance company) | - |
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| unintelligibility | (noun) incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible | - |
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| (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, incoherency |
| uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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| union | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting |
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| (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union |
| (noun) a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner) | - |
| (noun) the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts | - |
| (noun) an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer | Synonyms: brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union |
| (noun) a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations | - |
| (noun) a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets | Synonyms: join, sum |
| (noun) healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones | Synonyms: conglutination |
| (noun) the state of being joined or united or linked | Synonyms: unification |
| (noun) the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce) | Synonyms: marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock |
| unionisation | (noun) act of forming labor unions | Synonyms: unionization |
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| unionism | (noun) the system or principles and theory of labor unions | Synonyms: trade unionism |
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| unionist | (noun) a worker who belongs to a trade union | Synonyms: trade unionist, union member |
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| unionization | (noun) act of forming labor unions | Synonyms: unionisation |
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| uniqueness | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: singularity |
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| unison | (noun) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | - |
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| (noun) occurring together or simultaneously | - |
| (noun) corresponding exactly | - |
| unit | (noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity | Synonyms: whole |
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| (noun) a single undivided whole | - |
| (noun) an organization regarded as part of a larger social group | Synonyms: social unit |
| (noun) a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else | Synonyms: building block |
| (noun) any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange | Synonyms: unit of measurement |
| (noun) an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole | - |
| unitard | (noun) a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance | Synonyms: body suit, cat suit, leotard |
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| unitariness | (noun) The quality or state of pertaining to a unit, having the quality of oneness. | - |
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| unitarism | (noun) Politics which favors the process of uniting a political entity which consists of smaller regions, either by cancelling the regions completely or by transferring their power to the central government. | - |
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| uniting | (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, union |
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| (noun) the combination of two or more commercial companies | Synonyms: amalgamation, merger |
| unitisation | (noun) conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust | Synonyms: unitization |
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| (noun) the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies | Synonyms: unitization |
| (noun) the act of packaging cargo into unit loads | Synonyms: unitization |
| (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: chunking, unitization |
| unitization | (noun) conversion of an investment trust into a unit investment trust | Synonyms: unitisation |
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| (noun) the joint development of a petroleum resource that straddles territory controlled by different companies | Synonyms: unitisation |
| (noun) the act of packaging cargo into unit loads | Synonyms: unitisation |
| (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: chunking, unitisation |
| unity | (noun) the quality of being united into one | Synonyms: oneness |
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| (noun) the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 1, ace, I, one, single |
| (noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting | Synonyms: integrity, wholeness |
| univalve | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: gastropod |
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| universal | (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
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| (noun) a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings | - |
| (noun) (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class | Synonyms: universal proposition |
| (noun) (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages | Synonyms: linguistic universal |
| universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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| universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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| universe | (noun) everything stated or assumed in a given discussion | Synonyms: universe of discourse |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: population |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, world |
| university | (noun) establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | - |
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| (noun) the body of faculty and students at a university | - |
| (noun) a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees | - |