| U: | the twentyfirst letter of the English alphabet is a cursive form of the letter V with which it was formerly used interchangeably both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants U and V are now however differentiated U being used only as a vowel or semivowel and V only as a consonant The true primary vowel sound of U in AngloSaxon was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe that of long oo as in tool and short oo as in wood answering to the French ou in tour Etymologically U is most closely related to o y vowel w and v as in two duet dyad twice top tuft sop sup auspice aviary See V also O and Y |
| Uakari: | Same as Ouakari |
| Uberous: | Fruitful copious abundant plentiful |
| Uberty: | Fruitfulness copiousness abundance plenty |
| Ubication: | The quality or state of being in a place local relation position or location whereness |
| Ubiquarian: | Ubiquitous |
| Ubiquist: | One of a school of Lutheran divines which held that the body of Christ is present everywhere and especially in the eucharist in virtue of his omnipresence Called also ubiquitist and ubiquitary |
| Ubiquitariness: | Quality or state of being ubiquitary or ubiquitous |
| Ubiquitary: | Ubiquitous |
| Ubiquitary: | One who exists everywhere |
| Ubiquitist: | Same as Ubiquist |
| Ubiquitous: | Existing or being everywhere or in all places at the same time omnipresent |
| Ubiquity: | Existence everywhere or in all places at the same time omnipresence as the ubiquity of God is not disputed by those who admit his existence |
| Uchees: | A tribe of North American Indians belonging to the Creek confederation |
| Uckewallist: | One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists which originated in 1637 and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists In addition however they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved So called from the founder of the sect Ucke Wallis a native of Friesland |
| Udal: | Vars of Odal etc property held by udal or allodial right Obs exc in Shetland and the Orkney Islands where udal designates a freehold land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character |
| Udal: | Allodial a term used in Finland Shetland and Orkney See Allodial |
| Udaler: | In the Shetland and Orkney Islands one who holds property by udal or allodial right |
| Udder: | The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds See Mamma |
| Uddered: | Having an udder or udders |
| Udderless: | Destitute or deprived of an udder |
| Udometer: | A rain gauge |
| Ugh: | An exclamation expressive of disgust horror or recoil Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder |
| Uglesome: | Ugly |
| Uglify: | To disfigure to make ugly |
| Uglily: | In an ugly manner with deformity |
| Ugliness: | The quality or state of being ugly |
| Ugly: | Offensive to the sight contrary to beauty being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect unsightly repulsive deformed |
| Ugly: | A shade for the face projecting from the bonnet |
| Ugly: | To make ugly |
| Ugrian: | A Mongolian race ancestors of the Finns |
| Ugsome: | Ugly offensive loathsome |
| Uhlan: | One of a certain description of militia among the Tartars |
| Uintatherium: | An extinct genus of large Eocene ungulates allied to Dinoceras This name is sometimes used for nearly all the known species of the group See Dinoceras |
| Uitlander: | A foreigner an outlander |
| Ukase: | In Russia a published proclamation or imperial order having the force of law |
| Ulan: | See Uhlan |
| Ularburong: | A large East Indian nocturnal tree snake Dipsas dendrophila It is not venomous |
| Ulcer: | A solution of continuity in any of the soft parts of the body discharging purulent matter found on a surface especially one of the natural surfaces of the body and originating generally in a constitutional disorder a sore discharging pus It is distinguished from an abscess which has its beginning at least in the depth of the tissues |
| Ulcer: | To ulcerate |
| Ulcerable: | Capable of ulcerating |
| Ulcerate: | To be formed into an ulcer to become ulcerous |
| Ulcerate: | To affect with or as with an ulcer or ulcers |
| Ulcerated: | Affected with or as with an ulcer or ulcers as an ulcerated sore throat |
| Ulceration: | The process of forming an ulcer or of becoming ulcerous the state of being ulcerated also an ulcer |
| Ulcerative: | Of or pertaining to ulcers as an ulcerative process |
| Ulcered: | Ulcerous ulcerated |
| Ulcerous: | Having the nature or character of an ulcer discharging purulent or other matter |
| Ulcuscle: | A little ulcer |
| Ule: | A Mexican and Central American tree Castilloa elastica and Castilloa Markhamiana related to the breadfruit tree Its milky juice contains caoutchouc Called also ule tree |
| Ulema: | A college or body composed of the hierarchy the imams or ministers of religion the muftis or doctors of law and the cadis or administrators of justice That of Turkey alone now has political power its head is the sheik ul Islam |
| Ulexite: | A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda |
| Uliginose: | Muddy oozy slimy also growing in muddy places |
| ullage: | The amount which a vessel as a cask of liquor lacks of being full wantage deficiency |
| ullet: | A European owl Syrnium aluco of a tawny color called also uluia |
| Ullmannite: | A brittle mineral of a steelgray color and metallic luster containing antimony arsenic sulphur and nickel |
| Ulluco: | See Melluc |
| Ulmaceous: | Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants of which the elm is the type |
| Ulmate: | A salt of ulmic acid |
| Ulmic: | Pertaining to ulmin designating an acid obtained from ulmin |
| Ulmin: | A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation Cf Humin |
| Ulmus: | A genus of trees including the elm |
| Ulna: | The postaxial bone of the forearm or brachium corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb See Radius |
| Ulnage: | Measurement by the ell alnage |
| Ulnar: | Of or pertaining to the ulna or the elbow as the ulnar nerve |
| Ulnare: | One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus which articulates with the ulna and corresponds to the cuneiform in man |
| Ulodendron: | A genus of fossil trees |
| Uloid: | Resembling a scar scarlike |
| Ulonata: | A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera |
| Ulotrichan: | Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi |
| Ulotrichi: | The division of mankind which embraces the races having woolly or crispy hair Cf Leiotrichi |
| Ulotrichous: | Having woolly or crispy hair opposed to leiotrichous |
| Ulster: | A long loose overcoat worn by men and women originally made of frieze from Ulster Ireland |
| Ulterior: | Situated beyond or on the farther side thither correlative with hither |
| Ulterior: | Ulterior side or part |
| Ulteriorly: | More distantly or remotely |
| Ultima: | Most remote furthest final last |
| Ultima: | The last syllable of a word |
| Ultimate: | Farthest most remote in space or time extreme last final |
| Ultimate: | To come or bring to an end or issue to eventuate to end |
| Ultimately: | As a final consequence at last in the end as afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits and ultimately prove blessings |
| Ultimation: | State of being ultimate that which is ultimate or final ultimatum |
| Ultimatum: | A final proposition concession or condition especially the final propositions conditions or terms offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation the most favorable terms that a negotiator can offer the rejection of which usually puts an end to the hesitation |
| Ultime: | Ultimate final |
| Ultimity: | The last stage or consequence finality |
| Ultimo: | In the month immediately preceding the present as on the 1st ultimo usually abbreviated to ult Cf Proximo |
| Ultion: | The act of taking vengeance revenge |
| Ultra: | A prefix from the Latin ultra beyond see Ulterior having in composition the signification beyond on the other side chiefly when joined with words expressing relations of place as ultramarine ultramontane ultramundane ultratropical etc In other relations it has the sense of excessively exceedingly beyond what is common natural right or proper as ultraconservative ultrademocratic ultradespotic ultraliberal ultraradical etc |
| Ultra: | Going beyond others or beyond due limit extreme fanatical uncompromising as an ultra reformer ultra measures |
| Ultra: | One who advocates extreme measures an ultraist an extremist a radical |
| Ultragaseous: | Having the properties exhibited by gases under very low pressures one millionth of an atmosphere or less Matter under this condition which has been termed the fourth state of matter is sometimes called radiant matter |
| Ultrage: | Outrage |
| Ultraism: | The principles of those who advocate extreme measures as radical reform and the like |
| Ultraist: | One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes an extremist a radical an ultra |
| Ultramarine: | Situated or being beyond the sea |
| Ultramarine: | A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica alumina soda and sulphur thus forming a glass colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion Also used adjectively |
| Ultramontane: | Being beyond the mountains specifically being beyond the Alps in respect to the one who speaks |
| Ultramontane: | One who resides beyond the mountains especially beyond the Alps a foreigner |
| Ultramontanism: | The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the popes supremacy so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians rarely used in an opposite sense as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims Cf Gallicanism |
| Ultramontanist: | One who upholds ultramontanism |
| Ultramundane: | Being beyond the world or beyond the limits of our system |
| Ultrared: | Situated beyond or below the red rays as the ultrated rays of the spectrum which are less refrangible than the red |
| Ultratropical: | Situated beyond or outside of the tropics extratropical also having an excessively tropical temperature warmer than the tropics |
| Ultraviolet: | Lying outside the visible spectrum at its blueviolet end said of light more refrangible i e having a shorter wavelength than the extreme violet rays of the visible spectrum Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than those of ultrviolet light are not usually considered as light waves but are classified differently The ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum is generally considered as comprising those electromagnetic emissions with wavelengths lying between those of visible light and those of Xrays i e between 4000 Angstroms and 100 Angstroms |
| Ultravires: | Beyond power transcending authority a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights |
| Ultrazodiacal: | Outside the zodiac being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic as ultrazodiacal planets that is those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac |
| Ultroneous: | Spontaneous voluntary |
| Ulula: | A genus of owls including the great gray owl Ulula cinerea of Arctic America and other similar species See Illust of Owl |
| Ululant: | Howling wailing |
| Ululate: | To howl as a dog or a wolf to wail as ululating jackals |
| Ululation: | A howling as of a dog or wolf a wailing |
| Ulva: | A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce |
| Umbe: | About |
| Umbecast: | To cast about to consider to ponder |
| Umbel: | A kind of flower cluster in which the flower stalks radiate from a common point as in the carrot and milkweed It is simple or compound in the latter case each peduncle bears another little umbel called umbellet or umbellule |
| Umbellar: | Of or pertaining to an umbel having the form of an umbel |
| Umbellate: | Bearing umbels pertaining to an umbel umbellike as umbellate plants or flowers |
| Umbellet: | A small or partial umbel an umbellule |
| Umbellic: | Pertaining to or obtained from certain umbelliferous plants as umbellic acid |
| Umbellifer: | A plant producing an umbel or umbels |
| Umbelliferone: | A tasteless white crystalline substance C9H6O3 found in the bark of a certain plant Daphne Mezereum and also obtained by the distillation of certain gums from the Umbellifer as galbanum asafetida etc It is analogous to coumarin Called also hydroxycoumarin Its strong fluorescence under ultraviolet light makes it useful in analytical biochemistry as for exmple to detect phosphatase activity by hydrolysis of umbelliferyl phosphate |
| Umbelliferous: | Producing umbels |
| Umbellularia: | A genus of deepsea alcyonaria consisting of a cluster of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long slender stem which stands upright in the mud supported by a bulbous base |
| Umbellule: | An umbellet |
| Umber: | A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese It is commonly heated or burned before being used and is then called burnt umber when not heated it is called raw umber See Burnt umber below |
| Umber: | Of or pertaining to umber resembling umber olivebrown dark brown dark dusky |
| Umber: | To color with umber to shade or darken as to umber over ones face |
| Umbery: | Of or pertaining to umber like umber as umbery gold |
| Umbilic: | The navel the center |
| Umbilic: | See Umbilical 1 |
| Umbilical: | Of or pertaining to an umbilicus or umbilical cord umbilic |
| Umbilicate: | Depressed in the middle like a navel as a flower fruit or leaf navelshaped having an umbilicus as an umbilicated smallpox vesicle |
| Umbilication: | A slight navellike depression or dimpling of the center of a rounded body as the umbilication of a smallpox vesicle also the condition of being umbilicated |
| Umbilicus: | The depression or mark in the median line of the abdomen which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus the navel the belly button in humans |
| Umblepie: | A pie made of umbles See To eat humble pie under Humble |
| Umbles: | The entrails and coarser parts of a deer hence sometimes entrails in general |
| Umbo: | The boss of a shield at or near the middle and usually projecting sometimes in a sharp spike |
| Umbonate: | Having a conical or rounded projection or protuberance like a boss |
| Umbra: | The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite on the side opposite to the sun within which a spectator could see no portion of the suns disk used in contradistinction from penumbra See Penumbra |
| Umbraculiferous: | Bearing something like an open umbrella |
| Umbraculiform: | Having the form of anything that serves to shade as a tree top an umbrella and the like specifically Bot having the form of an umbrella umbrellashaped |
| Umbrage: | Shade shadow obscurity hence that which affords a shade as a screen of trees or foliage |
| umbrageous: | Forming or affording a shade shady shaded as umbrageous trees or foliage |
| Umbrate: | To shade to shadow to foreshadow |
| Umbratic: | Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness shadowy unreal secluded retired |
| Umbratile: | Umbratic |
| Umbratious: | Suspicious captious disposed to take umbrage |
| Umbre: | See Umber |
| Umbrel: | An umbrella |
| Umbrella: | A shade screen or guard carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun or from rain or snow It is formed of silk cotton or other fabric extended on strips of whalebone steel or other elastic material inserted in or fastened to a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease See Parasol |
| Umbrere: | In ancient armor a visor or projection like the peak of a cap to which a face guard was sometimes attached This was sometimes fixed and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver Called also umber and umbril |
| Umbrette: | See Umber 4 |
| Umbriferous: | Casting or making a shade umbrageous |
| umbril: | An umbrere |
| umbrine: | See Umbra 2 |
| Umbrose: | Shady umbrageous |
| Umbrosity: | The quality or state of being umbrose shadiness |
| umhofo: | An African twohorned rhinoceros Atelodus simus or Rhinoceros simus called also chukuru and white rhinoceros |
| umlaut: | The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a u or especially i in the syllable which formerly followed |
| Umlauted: | Having the umlaut as umlauted vowels |
| Umpirage: | The office of an umpire the power right or authority of an umpire to decide |
| Umpire: | To decide as umpire to arbitrate to settle as a dispute |
| Umpire: | To act as umpire or arbitrator |
| Umpireship: | Umpirage arbitrament |
| Umpress: | Female umpire |
| umpteen: | An indefinite number usu more than ten and less than one hundred a lot Often used hyperbolically and usually expressing the notion of more than the usual number or more than I would like |
| umpteenth: | Ordinal of umpteen with corresponding signification as for the umpteenth time Im telling you to stop |
| umquhile: | Some time ago formerly |
| Un: | An inseparable verbal prefix or particle It is prefixed a To verbs to express the contrary and not the simple negative of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed as in unbend uncoil undo unfold b To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing quality or state expressed by the noun or separation from it as in unchild unsex Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un see 2d Un as in undone from undo meaning unfastened ruined and undone from 2d un and done meaning not done not finished Un is sometimes used with an intensive force merely as in unloose |
| Un: | An inseparable prefix or particle signifying not in non In is prefixed mostly to words of Latin origin or else to words formed by Latin suffixes un is of much wider application and is attached at will to almost any adjective or participle used adjectively or adverb from which it may be desired to form a corresponding negative adjective or adverb and is also but less freely prefixed to nouns Un sometimes has merely an intensive force as in unmerciless unremorseless |
| Unability: | Inability |
| Unable: | Not able not having sufficient strength means knowledge skill or the like impotent weak helpless incapable now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase as unable for work unable to bear fatigue |
| Unabled: | Disabled |
| Unableness: | Inability |
| Unaboat: | The English name for a catboat so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England |
| Unabridged: | Not abridged or shortened full complete entire whole |
| Unabsorbable: | Not absorbable specifically Physiol not capable of absorption unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood as the unabsorbable portion of food |
| Unacceptability: | The quality of being unacceptable unacceptableness |
| Unacceptable: | Not acceptable not pleasing not welcome unpleasant disagreeable displeasing offensive |
| Unaccessible: | Inaccessible |
| Unaccomplished: | Not accomplished or performed unfinished also deficient in accomplishment unrefined |
| Unaccomplishment: | The state of being unaccomplished |
| Unaccountability: | The quality or state of being unaccountable |
| Unaccountable: | Not accountable or responsible free from control |
| Unaccurate: | Inaccurate |
| Unaccurateness: | Inaccuracy |
| Unaccustomed: | Not used not habituated unfamiliar unused with to |
| Unacquaintance: | The quality or state of being unacquainted want of acquaintance ignorance |
| Unacquainted: | Not acquainted |
| Unacquaintedness: | Unacquaintance |
| Unactive: | Inactive listless |
| Unactive: | To render inactive or listless |
| Unactiveness: | Inactivity |
| Unadmissible: | Inadmissible |
| Unadulterate: | Not adulterated pure |
| Unadvisable: | Not advisable inadvisable inexpedient |
| Unadvised: | Not prudent not discreet ill advised |
| Unaffected: | Not affected or moved destitute of affection or emotion uninfluenced |
| Unafiled: | Undefiled |
| Unagreeable: | Disagreeable |
| Unaidable: | Incapable of being aided |
| Unalienable: | Inalienable as unalienable rights |
| Unalist: | An ecclesiastic who holds but one benefice distinguished from pluralist |
| Unallied: | Not allied having no ally having no connection or relation as unallied species or genera |
| Unalloyed: | Not alloyed not reduced by foreign admixture unmixed unqualified pure as unalloyed metals unalloyed happiness |
| Unalmsed: | Not having received alms |
| Unambiguity: | Absence of ambiguity clearness perspicuity |
| Unambition: | The absence of ambition |
| Unamiability: | The quality or state of being unamiable moroseness |
| Unamiable: | Not amiable morose illnatured repulsive |
| Unanchor: | To loose from the anchor as a ship |
| Unaneled: | Not aneled not having received extreme unction |
| Unanimate: | Unanimous |
| Unanimity: | The quality or state of being unanimous |
| Unanimous: | Being of one mind agreeing in opinion design or determination consentient not discordant or dissentient harmonious as the assembly was unanimous the members of the council were unanimous |
| Unanswerability: | The quality of being unanswerable unanswerableness |
| Unanswerable: | Not answerable irrefutable conclusive decisive as he gave an unanswerable argument |
| Unanswered: | Not answered not replied to as an unanswered letter |
| Unappalled: | Not appalled not frightened dauntless undaunted |
| Unapparel: | To divest of clothing to strip |
| Unappealable: | Not appealable that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal as an unappealable suit or action |
| Unappliable: | Inapplicable |
| Unapplicable: | Inapplicable |
| Unappropriate: | Inappropriate unsuitable |
| Unappropriate: | To take from private possession to restore to the possession or right of all as to unappropriate a monopoly |
| Unappropriated: | Not specially appropriate having no special application |
| Unapproved: | Not approved |
| Unapt: | Inapt slow dull |
| Unaquit: | Unrequited |
| Unargued: | Not argued or debated |
| Unarm: | To disarm |
| Unarm: | To put off or lay down ones arms or armor |
| Unarmed: | Not armed or armored having no arms or weapons |
| Unarted: | Ignorant of the arts |
| unartful: | Lacking art or skill artless |
| unartistic: | Inartistic |
| unascried: | Not descried |
| unaserved: | Not served |
| Unassented: | Not assented said specif of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status as in a readjustment |
| Unassuming: | Not assuming not bold or forward not arrogant or presuming humble modest retiring as an unassuming youth unassuming manners |
| Unassured: | Not assured not bold or confident |
| Unatonable: | Not capable of being brought into harmony irreconcilable |
| Unattached: | Not attached not adhering having no engagement free |
| Unattentive: | Inattentive careless |
| Unattire: | To divest of attire to undress |
| Unau: | The twotoed sloth Cholopus didactylus native of South America It is about two feet long Its color is a uniform grayish brown sometimes with a reddish tint |
| Unaudienced: | Not given an audience not received or heard |
| Unauspicious: | Inauspicious |
| Unauthorize: | To disown the authority of to repudiate |
| Unavoidable: | Not avoidable incapable of being shunned or prevented inevitable necessary as unavoidable troubles |
| Unavoided: | Not avoided or shunned |
| Unaware: | Not aware not noticing giving no heed thoughtless inattentive |
| Unaware: | Unawares |
| Unawares: | Without design or preparation suddenly without premeditation unexpectedly |
| Unbacked: | Never mounted by a rider unbroken |
| Unbag: | To pour or take or let go out of a bag or bags |
| Unbalanced: | Not balanced not in equipoise having no counterpoise or having insufficient counterpoise |
| Unballast: | To free from ballast to discharge ballast from |
| Unballast: | Not ballasted |
| Unballasted: | Freed from ballast having discharged ballast |
| Unbanded: | Wanting a band or string unfastened |
| Unbank: | To remove a bank from to open by or as if by the removal of a bank |
| Unbar: | To remove a bar or bars from to unbolt to open as to unbar a gate |
| Unbarbed: | Not shaven |
| Unbark: | To deprive of the bark to decorticate to strip as to unbark a tree |
| Unbark: | To cause to disembark to land |
| Unbarrel: | To remove or release from a barrel or barrels |
| Unbarricade: | To unbolt to unbar to open |
| Unbarricadoed: | Not obstructed by barricades open as unbarricadoed streets |
| Unbashful: | Not bashful or modest bold impudent shameless |
| Unbay: | To free from the restraint of anything that surrounds or incloses to let loose to open |
| Unbe: | To cause not to be to cause to be another |
| Unbear: | To remove or loose the bearing rein of a horse |
| Unbeast: | To deliver from the form or nature of a beast |
| Unbecome: | To misbecome |
| Unbecoming: | Not becoming unsuitable unfit indecorous improper |
| Unbed: | To raise or rouse from bed |
| Unbedinned: | Not filled with din |
| Unbefool: | To deliver from the state of a fool to awaken the mind of to undeceive |
| Unbeget: | To deprive of existence |
| Unbegilt: | Not gilded hence not rewarded with gold |
| Unbegot: | Not begot not yet generated also having never been generated selfexistent eternal |
| Unbeguile: | To set free from the influence of guile to undeceive |
| Unbegun: | Not yet begun also existing without a beginning |
| Unbehovely: | Not behooving or becoming unseemly |
| Unbeing: | Not existing |
| Unbeknown: | Not known unknown |
| Unbelief: | The withholding of belief doubt incredulity skepticism |
| Unbelieved: | Not believed disbelieved |
| Unbeliever: | One who does not believe an incredulous person a doubter a skeptic |
| Unbelieving: | Not believing incredulous doubting distrusting skeptical |
| Unbelt: | To remove or loose the belt of to ungird |
| Unbend: | To free from flexure to make or allow to become straight to loosen as to unbend a bow |
| Unbend: | To cease to be bent to become straight or relaxed |
| Unbending: | Not bending not suffering flexure not yielding to pressure stiff applied to material things |
| Unbenevolence: | Absence or want of benevolence ill will |
| Unbenign: | Not benign malignant |
| Unbenumb: | To relieve of numbness to restore sensation to |
| Unbereaven: | Unbereft |
| Unbereft: | Not bereft not taken away |
| Unbeseem: | To be unbecoming or unsuitable to to misbecome |
| Unbeseeming: | Unbecoming not befitting |
| Unbespeak: | To unsay hence to annul or cancel |
| Unbethink: | To change the mind of ones self |
| Unbeware: | Unawares |
| Unbewitch: | To free from a spell to disenchant |
| Unbias: | To free from bias or prejudice |
| Unbiased: | Free from bias or prejudice unprejudiced impartial |
| Unbid: | Not bidden not commanded |
| Unbind: | To remove a band from to set free from shackles or fastenings to untie to unfasten to loose as unbind your fillets to unbind a prisoners arms to unbind a load |
| Unbishop: | To deprive as a city of a bishop to deprive as a clergyman of episcopal dignity or rights |
| Unbit: | To remove the turns of a rope or cable from the bits as to unbit a cable |
| Unblemished: | Not blemished pure spotless as an unblemished reputation or life |
| Unbless: | To deprive of blessings to make wretched |
| Unblessed: | Not blest excluded from benediction hence accursed wretched |
| Unblestful: | Unblessed |
| Unblind: | To free from blindness to give or restore sight to to open the eyes of |
| Unblindfold: | To free from that which blindfolds |
| Unbloody: | Not bloody |
| Unblushing: | Not blushing shameless |
| Unbody: | To free from the body to disembody |
| Unbody: | To leave the body to be disembodied said of the soul or spirit |
| Unbolt: | To remove a bolt from to unfasten to unbar to open |
| Unbolt: | To explain or unfold a matter to make a revelation |
| Unbonnet: | To take a bonnet from to take off ones bonnet to uncover as to unbonnet ones head |
| Unbooked: | Not written in a book unrecorded |
| Unboot: | To take off the boots from |
| Unborn: | Not born not yet brought into life being still to appear future |
| Unborrowed: | Not borrowed being ones own native original |
| Unbosom: | To disclose freely to reveal in confidence as secrets to confess often used reflexively as to unbosom ones self |
| Unbosomer: | One who unbosoms or discloses |
| Unbottomed: | Deprived of a bottom |
| Unbound: | imp p p of Unbind |
| Unboundably: | Infinitely |
| Unbounded: | Having no bound or limit as unbounded space an unbounded ambition |
| Unbow: | To unbend |
| Unbowed: | Not bent or arched not bowed down |
| Unbowel: | To deprive of the entrails to disembowel |
| Unbox: | To remove from a box or boxes |
| Unboy: | To divest of the traits of a boy |
| Unbrace: | To free from tension to relax to loose as to unbrace a drum to unbrace the nerves |
| Unbraid: | To separate the strands of to undo as a braid to unravel to disentangle |
| Unbreast: | To disclose or lay open to unbosom |
| Unbreathed: | Not breathed |
| Unbred: | Not begotten unborn |
| Unbreech: | To remove the breeches of to divest or strip of breeches |
| Unbrewed: | Not made by brewing unmixed pure genuine |
| Unbridle: | To free from the bridle to set loose |
| Unbridled: | Loosed from the bridle or as from the bridle hence unrestrained licentious violent as unbridled passions |
| Unbroken: | Not broken continuous unsubdued as an unbroken colt |
| Unbuckle: | To loose the buckles of to unfasten as to unbuckle a shoe |
| Unbuild: | To demolish to raze |
| Unbundle: | To release as from a bundle to disclose |
| Unbung: | To remove the bung from as to unbung a cask |
| Unburden: | To relieve from a burden |
| Unburiable: | Not ready or not proper to be buried |
| Unburrow: | To force from a burrow to unearth |
| Unburthen: | To unburden to unload |
| Unbury: | To disinter to exhume fig to disclose |
| Unbusied: | Not required to work unemployed not busy |
| Unbutton: | To loose the buttons of to unfasten |
| Unbuxom: | Disobedient |
| Uncage: | To loose or release from or as from a cage |
| Uncalledfor: | Not called for not required or needed improper gratuitous wanton |
| Uncalm: | To disturb to disquiet |
| Uncamp: | To break up the camp of to dislodge from camp |
| Uncanny: | Not canny unsafe strange weird ghostly |
| Uncanonize: | To deprive of canonical authority |
| Uncap: | To remove a cap or cover from |
| Uncapable: | Incapable |
| Uncape: | To remove a cap or cape from |
| Uncapper: | An instrument for removing an exploded cap from a cartridge shell |
| Uncardinal: | To degrade from the cardinalship |
| Uncared: | Not cared for not heeded with for |
| Uncarnate: | Not fleshly specifically not made flesh not incarnate |
| Uncarnate: | To divest of flesh |
| Uncart: | To take from or set free from a cart to unload |
| Uncastle: | To take a castle from to turn out of a castle |
| Uncaused: | Having no antecedent cause uncreated selfexistent eternal |
| Uncautelous: | Incautious |
| Uncautious: | Incautious |
| Uncautiously: | Incautiously |
| Unce: | A claw |
| Unce: | An ounce a small portion |
| Unceasable: | Not capable of being ended unceasing |
| Uncenter: | To throw from its center |
| Uncentury: | To remove from its actual century |
| Uncertain: | Not certain not having certain knowledge not assured in mind distrustful |
| Uncertain: | To make uncertain |
| Uncertainly: | In an uncertain manner |
| Uncessant: | Incessant |
| Unchain: | To free from chains or slavery to let loose |
| Unchancy: | Happening at a bad time unseasonable inconvenient |
| Unchaplain: | To remove from a chaplaincy |
| Unchariot: | To throw out of a chariot |
| Uncharitable: | Not charitable contrary to charity severe in judging harsh censorious as uncharitable opinions or zeal |
| Uncharity: | Uncharitableness |
| Uncharm: | To release from a charm fascination or secret power to disenchant |
| Uncharnel: | To remove from a charnel house to raise from the grave to exhume |
| Unchaste: | Not chaste not continent lewd |
| Unchastity: | The quality or state of being unchaste lewdness incontinence |
| Uncheckable: | Not capable of being checked or stopped |
| Unchristen: | To render unchristian |
| Unchristened: | Not christened as an unchristened child |
| Unchristian: | Not Christian not converted to the Christian faith infidel |
| Unchristian: | To make unchristian |
| Unchristianize: | To turn from the Christian faith to cause to abandon the belief and profession of Christianity |
| Unchristianly: | Unchristian |
| Unchristianly: | In an unchristian manner |
| Unchristianness: | The quality or state of being unchristian |
| Unchurch: | To expel or cause to separate from a church to excommunicate |
| Uncia: | A twelfth part as of the Roman as an ounce |
| Uncial: | Of pertaining to or designating a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts esp in Greek and Latin manuscripts The letters are somewhat rounded and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination These letters were used as early as the 1st century b c and were seldom used after the 10th century a d being superseded by the cursive style |
| Uncial: | An uncial letter |
| Unciatim: | Ounce by ounce |
| Unciform: | Having the shape of a hook being of a curved or hooked form hooklike |
| Unciform: | The unciform bone See Illust of Perissodactyla |
| Uncinata: | A division of marine chtopod annelids which are furnished with uncini as the serpulas and sabellas |
| Uncinate: | Hooked bent at the tip in the form of a hook as an uncinate process |
| Uncinatum: | The unciform bone |
| Uncinus: | One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata |
| Uncipher: | To decipher as to uncipher a letter |
| Uncircumcised: | Not circumcised hence not of the Israelites |
| Uncircumcision: | The absence or want of circumcision |
| Uncircumstandtial: | Not circumstantial not entering into minute particulars |
| Uncity: | To deprive of the rank or rights of a city |
| Uncivil: | Not civilized savage barbarous uncivilized |
| Uncivility: | Incivility |
| Uncivilization: | The state of being uncivilized savagery or barbarism |
| Uncivilized: | Not civilized not reclaimed from savage life rude barbarous savage as the uncivilized inhabitants of Central Africa |
| Uncivilty: | In an uncivil manner |
| Unclasp: | To loose the clasp of to open as something that is fastened with or as with a clasp as to unclasp a book to unclasp the hands to unclasp ones heart |
| Uncle: | The brother of ones father or mother also applied to an aunts husband the correlative of aunt in sex and of nephew and niece in relationship |
| Unclean: | Not clean foul dirty filthy |
| Uncleansable: | Incapable of being cleansed or cleaned |
| Unclench: | Same as Unclinch |
| Uncleship: | The office or position of an uncle |
| Unclew: | To unwind unfold or untie hence to undo to ruin |
| Unclinch: | To cause to be no longer clinched to open as to unclinch the fist |
| Uncling: | To cease from clinging or adhering |
| Uncloak: | To remove a cloak or cover from to deprive of a cloak or cover to unmask to reveal |
| Uncloak: | To remove or take off ones cloak |
| Unclog: | To disencumber of a clog or of difficulties and obstructions to free from encumbrances to set at liberty |
| Uncloister: | To release from a cloister or from confinement or seclusion to set free to liberate |
| Unclose: | To open to separate the parts of as to unclose a letter to unclose ones eyes |
| Unclosed: | Not separated by inclosures open |
| Unclothe: | To strip of clothes or covering to make naked |
| Unclothed: | Divested or stripped of clothing |
| Uncloud: | To free from clouds to unvail to clear from obscurity gloom sorrow or the like |
| Unclue: | To unwind to untangle |
| Unclutch: | To open as something closely shut |
| Unco: | Unknown strange or foreign unusual or surprising distant in manner reserved |
| Unco: | In a high degree to a great extent greatly very |
| Unco: | A strange thing or person |
| Uncoach: | To detach or loose from a coach |
| Uncock: | To let down the cock of as a firearm |
| Uncoffle: | To release from a coffle |
| Uncoif: | To deprive of the coif or cap |
| Uncoil: | To unwind or open as a coil of rope |
| Uncoined: | Not coined or minted as uncoined silver |
| Uncolt: | To unhorse |
| Uncombine: | To separate as substances in combination to release from combination or union |
| Uncomeatable: | Not to be come at or reached inaccessible |
| Uncomely: | Not comely |
| Uncomfortable: | Feeling discomfort uneasy as to be uncomfortable on account of ones position |
| Uncommon: | Not common unusual infrequent rare hence remarkable strange as an uncommon season an uncommon degree of cold or heat uncommon courage |
| Uncomplete: | Incomplete |
| Uncomprehend: | To fail to comprehend |
| Uncomprehensive: | Unable to comprehend |
| Uncompromising: | Not admitting of compromise making no truce or concessions obstinate unyielding inflexible |
| Unconceivable: | Inconceivable |
| Unconcern: | Want of concern absence of anxiety freedom from solicitude indifference |
| Unconcerned: | Not concerned not anxious or solicitous easy in mind carelessly secure indifferent as to be unconcerned at what has happened to be unconcerned about the future |
| Unconcerning: | Not interesting or affecting insignificant not belonging to one |
| Unconcernment: | The state of being unconcerned or of having no share or concern unconcernedness |
| Unconcludent: | Inconclusive |
| Unconclusive: | Inconclusive |
| Unconditional: | Not conditional limited or conditioned made without condition absolute unreserved as an unconditional surrender |
| Unconditioned: | Not conditioned or subject to conditions unconditional |
| Unconfidence: | Absence of confidence uncertainty doubt |
| Unconform: | Unlike |
| Unconformability: | The quality or state of being unconformable unconformableness |
| Unconformable: | Not conformable not agreeable not conforming |
| Unconformist: | A nonconformist |
| Unconformity: | Want of conformity incongruity inconsistency |
| Unconfound: | To free from a state of confusion or of being confounded |
| Unconfounded: | Not confounded |
| Uncongeal: | To thaw to become liquid again |
| Unconning: | Not knowing ignorant |
| Unconquerable: | Not conquerable indomitable |
| Unconscionable: | Not conscionable exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation not conforming to reason unreasonable inordinate extravagant as an unconscionable person or demand unconscionable size |
| unconscious: | Not conscious having no consciousness or power of mental perception without cerebral appreciation hence not knowing or regarding ignorant as an unconscious man |
| unconscious: | Usually the unconscious that part of the mind in which mental processes occur that are not accesible to the awareness but may significantly influence behavior |
| Unconsecrate: | To render not sacred to deprive of sanctity to desecrate |
| Unconsequential: | Inconsequential |
| Unconsiderate: | Inconsiderate heedless careless |
| Unconsidered: | Not considered or attended to not regarded inconsiderable trifling |
| Unconsonant: | Incongruous inconsistent |
| Unconspicuous: | Inconspicuous |
| Unconstancy: | Inconstancy |
| Unconstant: | Not constant inconstant fickle changeable |
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