5 Letter Words That Start With U

upset

Adjective : (of a person) Angry, distressed, or unhappy.

Adjective : (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as stomach) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.

Noun : (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.

urban

Adjective : Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.

Adjective : Living in a city or town.

Adjective : Having authority or jurisdiction over a city or town.

union

Noun : (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.

Noun : (countable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.

Noun : (countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.

under

Verb : In or to a lower or subordinate position, or a position beneath or below something, physically or figuratively.

Verb : So as to pass beneath something.

Verb : (usually in compounds) Insufficiently.

ultra

Adjective : Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.

Noun : An ultraroyalist in France.

Noun : An extremist, especially an ultranationalist.

utter

Adjective : (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.

Adjective : (obsolete) Outward.

Adjective : Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

usurp

Verb : To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means.

Verb : To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.

Verb : To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else.

unity

Noun : (uncountable) Oneness; the state or fact of being one undivided entity.

Noun : Agreement; harmony.

Noun : A single undivided thing, seen as complete in itself.

until

usage

Noun : Habit, practice.

Noun : A custom or established practice.

Noun : (uncountable) Custom, tradition.

usher

Noun : A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

Noun : A male escort at a wedding.

Noun : A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

upend

Verb : (transitive) To end up; to set on end.

Verb : To tip or turn over.

Verb : (figurative) To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat.

umber

Noun : A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

Noun : A grayling.

Noun : A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

umami

Noun : One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.

ulcer

Noun : (pathology) An open sore of the skin, eyes or mucous membrane, often caused by an initial abrasion and generally maintained by an inflammation and/or an infection.

Noun : (pathology) Peptic ulcer.

Noun : (figurative) Anything that festers and corrupts like an open sore; a vice in character.

undue

Adjective : Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.

Adjective : That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.

Adjective : (of a payment etc) Not owing or payable.

umbra

Noun : The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.

Noun : (astronomy) The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.

Noun : (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.

uvula

Noun : (anatomy) the slight elevation in the mucous membrane immediately behind the internal urethral orifice of the urinary bladder, caused by the middle lobe of the prostate

Noun : (music) an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper

Noun : (anatomy) Ellipsis of palatine uvula.: the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate, that closes the nasopharynx during swallowing [(anatomy) The uvula in the mouth (as distinguished from uvulae elsewhere in the body).]

usury

Noun : (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.

Noun : (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.

Noun : (uncountable, archaic or historical) The practice of lending money at interest.

usual

Adjective : Most commonly occurring; typical.

Noun : The typical state of something, or something that is typical.

Noun : (colloquial) A specific good or service (e.g. a drink) that someone typically orders.

uncle

Noun : The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.

Noun : The male cousin of one’s parent.

Noun : (endearing) Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.

unite

Verb : (transitive) To bring together as one.

Verb : (reciprocal) To come together as one.

Noun : (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.

urari

Noun : Alternative form of curare [A plant, Strychnos toxifera, formerly used in arrow poisons in South America due to its D-tubocurarine content.]

ukase

Noun : An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.

Noun : (figuratively) Any absolutist order or arrogant proclamation

Noun : Alternative letter-case form of ukase [An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.]

upper

Adjective : At a higher level, rank or position.

Adjective : Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.

Adjective : (geology, of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent

umbel

Noun : (botany) A flat-topped or rounded flower-cluster (= inflorescence) in which the individual flower stalks arise from the same point, the youngest flowers being at the centre.

using

Noun : use; utilization

unsew

Verb : (transitive) To undo something sewn or enclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

uther

Noun : (Arthurian legend) The father of King Arthur.

udder

Noun : An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.

Noun : (slang, impolite) A woman's breast.

unify

Verb : (transitive) Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine.

Verb : (intransitive) Become one.

urine

Noun : (physiology) Liquid waste consisting of water, salts, and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.

Verb : (archaic) To urinate.

up to

Noun : if a and b are related by R, that is,

ugric

Adjective : Of or pertaining to a group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.

Noun : A group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.

utero

uteri

Noun : (anatomy) The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.

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 communit

uhlan

Noun : (historical) A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian/German, Austrian, and Russian armies.

uredo

Noun : (botany, countable) A summer stage in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus, and preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage.

Noun : (medicine, uncountable) urticaria; nettle-rash

ulnar

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow

uncut

Adjective : Not cut.

Adjective : (of a gemstone) Not cut or ground to the desired shape.

Adjective : (of a book) Not having the page edges trimmed.

utica

Noun : A Phoenician colony on the African coast, near Carthage.

Noun : A city, the county seat of Oneida County, New York; named for the Phoenician colony.

Noun : A city in Michigan; named for the city in New York.

unfit

Adjective : Not fit; not having the correct requirements.

Adjective : Not fit, not having a good physical demeanor.

Adjective : (often with for) Unsuitable for a particular purpose.

unlax

Verb : (intransitive, colloquial) To relax.

utile

Adjective : (now rare) Useful.

Noun : (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.

untie

Verb : (transitive) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.

Verb : (transitive) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.

Verb : To resolve; to unfold; to clear.

urial

Noun : A bearded reddish sheep, subspecies of Ovis orientalis (including Ovis orientalis vignei), previously classified as Ovis vignei, being endemic to southern Asia and believed to be a wild ancestor of domestic sheep.

uvate

Noun : A conserve made of grapes.

umiak

Noun : (nautical) A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation.

urate

Noun : (chemistry) Any salt of uric acid.

units

Noun : (mathematics) Oneness, singularity, seen as a component of a whole number; a magnitude of one.

Noun : (sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.

Noun : The number one.

unman

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To divest of humanity.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To castrate; to remove the manhood of.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To sap (a person) of the strength, whether physical or emotional, required to deal with a situation.

unmet

Adjective : Not met; unfulfilled; not achieved

unset

Adjective : Not set; not fixed or appointed.

Adjective : Not mounted or placed in a setting.

Adjective : Not set (broken bone)

unsay

Verb : To withdraw, retract (something said).

Verb : To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).

ungot

Adjective : (obsolete or poetic) Not begotten.

Adjective : Not acquired; ungotten.

undid

Verb : To reverse the effects of an action.

Verb : To unfasten.

Verb : (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.

uriel

Noun : An archangel in Judaism and Christianity.

Noun : A male given name from Hebrew.

unapt

Adjective : (obsolete except in negative phrases) Not apt, inappropriate, unsuited.

Adjective : (obsolete) Unaccustomed.

unary

Adjective : Consisting of or involving a single element or component.

Adjective : (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure, or logic gate, taking exactly one operand, argument, parameter, or input; having domain of dimension 1.

Noun : (mathematics) The unary, or bijective base-1, numeral system.

urnal

Adjective : (rare or obsolete) Pertaining to urns.

udine

Noun : A city and comune in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.

urson

Noun : A species of New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum.

uriah

Noun : Any of a number of Old Testament men, including the husband of Bathsheba whom David sent to death.

Noun : (rather rare) A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.

urals

Noun : The Ural Mountains

urged

Noun : A strong desire; an itch to do something.

Verb : (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Verb : (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

ulnae

Noun : (anatomy) The bone of the forearm that extends from the elbow to the wrist on the side opposite to the thumb, corresponding to the fibula of the hind limb. Also, the corresponding bone in the forelimb of any vertebrate.

ulama

Noun : A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.

Noun : The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka)

Noun : (Islam) Alternative form of ulema

ummah

Noun : (Islam) The worldwide Muslim community.

uniat

Adjective : Alternative spelling of Uniate [Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church]

Noun : Alternative spelling of Uniate [A member of a Uniate Church]

uzbek

Noun : A person from Uzbekistan or of Uzbek descent.

Adjective : Of, from, or pertaining to Uzbekistan, the Uzbek people or the Uzbek language.

Noun : The language of Uzbekistan.

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uigur

Noun : Alternative form of Uyghur [A member of a Turkic ethnic group living in northwestern China and southeastern Kazakhstan.]

unwed

Adjective : Not married.

Noun : One who is not married; a bachelor or a spinster.

Verb : (transitive) To annul the marriage of.

uncia

Noun : (historical) The Roman ounce, 1/12 of a Roman pound.

Noun : (historical) The Roman inch, 1/12 of a Roman foot.

Noun : (historical) A bronze coin minted by the Roman Republic, 1/12 of an as.

unlit

Adjective : Not lit

users

Noun : One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.

Noun : A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.

Noun : (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.

unlay

Verb : (transitive, nautical) To untwist.

unzip

Verb : (transitive) To open something using a zipper.

Verb : (intransitive) To come open by means of a zipper.

Verb : (computing, transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

upped

Verb : Away from the surface of the Earth or other planet; in opposite direction to the downward pull of gravity.

Verb : To or at a physically higher or more elevated position.

Verb : To a higher level of some quantity or notional quantity, such as price, volume, pitch, happiness, etc.

uh-oh

unsex

Verb : To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.

Verb : To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

ursus

Noun : type genus of ursidae: brown bears; in some classifications genus ursus includes all bear

use up

Verb : (of a resource) to consume, deplete or exhaust

Verb : (of time or space) to take or occupy

uveal

Adjective : Of or pertaining to the uvea

unarm

Verb : (transitive) To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from.

Verb : (intransitive) To remove one's armour.

usnea

Noun : Any lichen of the genus Usnea.

uraei

Noun : A representation of the sacred asp, symbolising supreme power in ancient Egypt.

uluru

Noun : A giant free-standing rock in central Australia, previously known by its colonial name, Ayers Rock.

unsub

Noun : (law enforcement) Abbreviation of unknown subject. of an investigation.

Verb : Abbreviation of unsubscribe. [(intransitive) To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service.]

Noun : Abbreviation of unsubscription. [The act of unsubscribing.]

uveas

Noun : (anatomy) The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris.

ulmus

Noun : type genus of family ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate region

unbar

Verb : (transitive) To unlock or unbolt a door that had been locked or bolted with a bar.

Verb : (transitive) To remove an impediment that obstructs the passage of (someone or something).

Verb : (transitive) To remove a prohibition.

uh-uh

unger

Noun : A surname.

urges

Noun : A strong desire; an itch to do something.

Verb : (transitive) To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

Verb : (transitive) To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

unrig

Verb : (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.).

Verb : (transitive) To disable.

Verb : (obsolete, slang) To undress (someone).

usent

uhuru

Noun : the first satellite launched specifically for the purpose of X-ray astronomy.

Noun : an administrative ward in the Dodoma Urban district of the Dodoma Region of Tanzania.

Noun : a bootleg version of the album Welcome Home by British Afro rock band Osibisa, released without authorisation in 1992 by Soundwings Records and distributed by Serenade S.A., Barcelona, Spain.

unagi

Noun : A type of sushi made from freshwater eel.

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