u | (adjective) (chiefly British) of or appropriate to the upper classes especially in language use | - |
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(noun) the 21st letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: U |
uakari | (noun) medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail | - |
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ubiety | (noun) the state of existing and being localized in space | - |
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ubiquinone | (noun) any of several quinones found in living cells and that function as coenzymes that transfer electrons from one molecule to another in cell respiration | Synonyms: coenzyme Q |
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ubiquitous | (adjective) being present everywhere at once | Synonyms: omnipresent |
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ubiquitousness | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: omnipresence, ubiquity |
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ubiquity | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: omnipresence, ubiquitousness |
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udder | (noun) mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) | Synonyms: bag |
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udometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: pluviometer, rain gage, rain gauge |
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ugli | (noun) large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin | Synonyms: tangelo, ugli fruit |
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uglify | (verb) make ugly | - |
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ugliness | (noun) qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses | - |
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(noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, vileness, wickedness |
ugly | (adjective) displeasing to the senses | - |
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(adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
(adjective) inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace | Synonyms: surly |
(adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrible, horrifying |
uintathere | (noun) a variety of dinocerate | Synonyms: dinoceras |
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ukase | (noun) an edict of the Russian tsar | - |
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uke | (noun) a small guitar having four strings | Synonyms: ukulele |
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ukulele | (noun) a small guitar having four strings | Synonyms: uke |
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ulalgia | (noun) pain in the gums | - |
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ulama | (noun) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | Synonyms: ulema |
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ulatrophia | (noun) recession of the gums | - |
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ulcer | (noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulceration |
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ulcerate | (verb) affect with an ulcer | - |
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(verb) undergo ulceration | - |
ulcerated | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerous |
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ulceration | (noun) the process of ulcer formation; the process of becoming ulcerated | - |
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(noun) a circumscribed inflammatory and often suppurating lesion on the skin or an internal mucous surface resulting in necrosis of tissue | Synonyms: ulcer |
ulcerative | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by ulceration | - |
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ulcerous | (adjective) having an ulcer or canker | Synonyms: cankerous, ulcerated |
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ulema | (noun) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | Synonyms: ulama |
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ulemorrhagia | (noun) bleeding of the gums | - |
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ulitis | (noun) inflammation of the gums | - |
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ullage | (noun) the amount that a container (as a wine bottle or tank) lacks of being full | - |
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ulna | (noun) the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm | Synonyms: elbow bone |
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ulnar | (adjective) relating to or near the ulna | - |
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ulster | (noun) loose long overcoat of heavy fabric; usually belted | - |
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ult | (adjective) in or of the month preceding the present one | Synonyms: ultimo |
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ulterior | (adjective) lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) | Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous |
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(adjective) beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote | - |
(adjective) coming at a subsequent time or stage | Synonyms: later, posterior |
ulteriority | (noun) the quality of being ulterior | - |
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ulteriorly | (adverb) in an ulterior manner | - |
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ultima | (noun) the last syllable in a word | - |
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ultimacy | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimateness |
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ultimate | (adjective) furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme | - |
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(adjective) being the last or concluding element of a series | - |
(noun) the finest or most superior quality of its kind | - |
ultimately | (adverb) as the end result of a succession or process | Synonyms: at last, at long last, finally, in the end |
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ultimateness | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimacy |
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ultimatum | (noun) a final peremptory demand | - |
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ultimo | (adjective) in or of the month preceding the present one | Synonyms: ult |
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ultra | (adjective) (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | Synonyms: extremist, radical |
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ultracentrifugation | (noun) centrifugation at very high speeds | - |
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ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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(verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |
ultraconservative | (adjective) extremely conservative | - |
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(noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
ultramarine | (adjective) of a brilliant pure blue to purplish blue color | - |
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(noun) a vivid blue to purple-blue color | - |
(noun) blue pigment made of powdered lapis lazuli | Synonyms: ultramarine blue |
ultramicroscope | (noun) light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes | Synonyms: dark-field microscope |
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ultramicroscopic | (adjective) too small to be seen without an ultramicroscope | - |
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ultramodern | (adjective) extremely modern | - |
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ultramodernity | (noun) The property of being extremely modern. | - |
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ultramontane | (adjective) of or relating to ultramontanism | - |
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(adjective) on the Italian or Roman side of the Alps | Synonyms: cisalpine |
(adjective) on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps) | Synonyms: transalpine |
(noun) a Roman Catholic who advocates ultramontanism (supreme papal authority in matters of faith and discipline) | - |
ultramontanism | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope | - |
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ultranationalism | (noun) fanatical patriotism | Synonyms: chauvinism, jingoism, superpatriotism |
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ultranationalistic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, superpatriotic |
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ultrasonic | (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: supersonic |
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ultrasonically | (adverb) by ultrasonic means | - |
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ultrasonography | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasound |
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ultrasound | (noun) using the reflections of high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs | Synonyms: echography, sonography, ultrasonography |
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(noun) very high frequency sound; used in ultrasonography | - |
ultraviolet | (adjective) having or employing wavelengths shorter than light but longer than X-rays; lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end | - |
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(noun) radiation lying in the ultraviolet range; wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X rays | Synonyms: ultraviolet illumination, ultraviolet light, ultraviolet radiation, UV |
ululate | (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, wail, yaup, yawl |
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ululation | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, howling |
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umbel | (noun) flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center | - |
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umbellar | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellate |
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umbellate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of or resembling umbels | Synonyms: umbellar |
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(adjective) resembling an umbel in form | Synonyms: umbel-like |
umbellifer | (noun) any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae | Synonyms: umbelliferous plant |
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umbelliferous | (adjective) relating to or belonging to plants of the family Umbelliferae | - |
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umbelliform | (adjective) resembling or in the form of an umbel | - |
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umber | (adjective) of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments | - |
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(noun) a medium brown to dark-brown color | Synonyms: burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
(noun) an earth pigment | - |
umbilical | (adjective) relating to or resembling the umbilicus | - |
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(noun) membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta | Synonyms: umbilical cord |
umbilicate | (adjective) depressed like a navel | - |
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umbilicus | (noun) a scar where the umbilical cord was attached | Synonyms: belly button, bellybutton, navel, omphalos, omphalus |
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umbo | (noun) a slight rounded elevation where the malleus attaches to the eardrum | - |
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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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umlaut | (noun) a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages | - |
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ump | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: umpire |
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umpirage | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiating, officiation, refereeing |
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(noun) mediation by an umpire | - |
umpire | (noun) an official at a baseball game | Synonyms: ump |
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(noun) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue | Synonyms: arbiter, arbitrator |
(verb) be a referee or umpire in a sports competition | Synonyms: referee |
umpteen | (adjective) innumerable but many | Synonyms: umteen |
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umpteenth | (adjective) last in an indefinitely numerous series | Synonyms: umptieth, umteenth |
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umptieth | (adjective) last in an indefinitely numerous series | Synonyms: umpteenth, umteenth |
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umteen | (adjective) innumerable but many | Synonyms: umpteen |
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umteenth | (adjective) last in an indefinitely numerous series | Synonyms: umpteenth, umptieth |
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unabashed | (adjective) not embarrassed | Synonyms: unembarrassed |
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unabashedly | (adverb) in an unabashed manner | - |
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unabated | (adjective) continuing at full strength or intensity | - |
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unable | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how | - |
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(adjective) lacking in power or forcefulness | Synonyms: ineffective, ineffectual |
(adjective) (usually followed by `to') lacking necessary physical or mental ability | - |
unabridged | (adjective) (used of texts) not shortened | - |
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(noun) a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary | Synonyms: unabridged dictionary |
unabused | (adjective) not physically abused; treated properly | - |
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unaccented | (adjective) (used of syllables) carrying no stress | Synonyms: atonic |
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(adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: light, weak |
unacceptability | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptableness |
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unacceptable | (adjective) not acceptable; not welcome | - |
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(adjective) (used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable | Synonyms: impossible |
(adjective) not conforming to standard usage | Synonyms: unaccepted |
(adjective) not adequate to give satisfaction | - |
unacceptableness | (noun) unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: unacceptability |
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