| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| adumbration | (noun) a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation | - |
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| (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefiguration |
| adumbrative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: foreshadowing, prefigurative |
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| cumbrous | (adjective) difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight | Synonyms: cumbersome |
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| encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
| incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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| (noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
| (noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
| penumbra | (noun) a fringe region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| penumbral | (adjective) of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra | - |
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| slumbrous | (adjective) inclined to or marked by drowsiness | Synonyms: slumberous, slumbery, somnolent |
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| (adjective) quiet and tranquil | Synonyms: slumberous |
| tumbrel | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbril |
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| tumbril | (noun) a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution | Synonyms: tumbrel |
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| umbra | (noun) a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light | - |
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| umbrage | (noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offence, offense |
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| umbrageous | (adjective) angered at something unjust or wrong | Synonyms: incensed, indignant, outraged |
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| (adjective) filled with shade | Synonyms: shadowed, shadowy, shady |
| umbrella | (adjective) covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups | - |
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| (noun) a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets | - |
| (noun) having the function of uniting a group of similar things | - |
| (noun) a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy | - |
| umbrellalike | (adjective) resembling an umbrella | - |
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| umbrellawort | (noun) a plant of the genus Mirabilis | - |
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