| 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 |