| uninventive | (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired |
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| uninvited | (adjective) (of a person) not having been invited | - |
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| (adjective) (of a thought or act) unwelcome or involuntary | - |
| uninvitedly | (adverb) without invitation | - |
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| uninviting | (adjective) neither attractive nor tempting | - |
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| (adjective) not tempting | Synonyms: untempting |
| uninvolved | (adjective) not involved | - |
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| (adjective) showing lack of emotional involvement | Synonyms: degage, detached |
| union | (adjective) of trade unions | - |
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| (noun) the act of making or becoming a single unit | Synonyms: conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting |
| (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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| unionise | (verb) form or join a union | Synonyms: organise, organize, unionize |
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| (verb) recruit for a union or organize into a union | Synonyms: unionize |
| unionised | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionised, nonionized, unionized |
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| (adjective) being a member of or formed into a labor union | Synonyms: organised, organized, unionized |
| 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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| unionize | (verb) form or join a union | Synonyms: organise, organize, unionise |
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| (verb) recruit for a union or organize into a union | Synonyms: unionise |
| unionized | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionised, nonionized, unionised |
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| (adjective) being a member of or formed into a labor union | Synonyms: organised, organized, unionised |
| uniovular | (adjective) having a single ovule | Synonyms: uniovulate |
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| uniovulate | (adjective) having a single ovule | Synonyms: uniovular |
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| uniparous | (adjective) producing only one offspring at a time | - |
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| unipolar | (adjective) having a single pole | - |
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| unique | (adjective) radically distinctive and without equal | Synonyms: alone, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled |
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| (adjective) the single one of its kind | Synonyms: singular |
| (adjective) (followed by `to') applying exclusively to a given category or condition or locality | - |
| (adjective) highly unusual or rare but not the single instance | - |
| uniquely | (adverb) so as to be unique | Synonyms: unambiguously |
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| uniqueness | (noun) the quality of being one of a kind | Synonyms: singularity |
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| unironed | (adjective) (of linens or clothes) not ironed | Synonyms: wrinkled |
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| unisex | (adjective) not distinguished on the basis of sex | - |
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| unisexual | (adjective) relating to only one sex or having only one type of sexual organ; not hermaphroditic | - |
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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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| unitary | (adjective) characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority | - |
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| (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the use of units | - |
| (adjective) relating to or characterized by or aiming toward unity | - |
| (adjective) having the indivisible character of a unit | Synonyms: one |
| unite | (verb) become one | Synonyms: merge, unify |
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| (verb) join or combine | Synonyms: merge, unify |
| (verb) act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief | Synonyms: unify |
| (verb) bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation | Synonyms: unify |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link, link up |
| united | (adjective) characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to two people who are married to each other | Synonyms: joined |
| (adjective) involving the joint activity of two or more | Synonyms: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative |
| unitedly | (adverb) with cooperation and interchange | Synonyms: together |
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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 |
| unitise | (verb) separate or classify into units | Synonyms: unitize |
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| (verb) make into a unit | Synonyms: unitize |
| (verb) divide (bulk material) and process as units | Synonyms: unitize |
| 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 |
| unitize | (verb) separate or classify into units | Synonyms: unitise |
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| (verb) make into a unit | Synonyms: unitise |
| (verb) divide (bulk material) and process as units | Synonyms: unitise |
| 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 |
| univalent | (adjective) used of a chromosome that is not paired or united with its homologous chromosome during synapsis | - |
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| (adjective) having a valence of 1 | Synonyms: monovalent |
| univalve | (adjective) used of mollusks, especially gastropods, as snails etc. | - |
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| (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: gastropod |
| universal | (adjective) adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations | - |
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| (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, world-wide, worldwide |
| (adjective) applicable to or common to all members of a group or set | - |
| (noun) coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions | Synonyms: universal joint |
| (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 |
| universalise | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalize |
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| universalism | (noun) the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved | - |
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| universalist | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalistic |
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| universalistic | (adjective) of or relating to or tending toward universalism | Synonyms: universalist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the whole | - |
| universality | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: catholicity |
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| universalize | (verb) make universal | Synonyms: universalise |
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| universally | (adverb) in every case | - |
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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 | - |
| univocal | (adjective) admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion | Synonyms: unambiguous, unequivocal |
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