Elementary Vocabulary
36,007 words and 29 expressions at the elementary level.
The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.
Abbreviation of usual and customary (price); the retail price if not covered by insurance.
Initialism of urea and electrolytes (blood tests).
Initialism of use and occupancy: an official authorization or permit to inhabit a building or dwelling, usually issued upon successful completion of a final building inspection after construction or renovation is complete. Also referred to as a certificate of occupancy or occupancy permit.
plural of U&O
plural of u (“the letter u”)
Alternative form of Uwa (“people”).
Alternative form of uey.
Alternative form of uey.
Initialism of University of Michigan.
The form of Received Pronunciation used by the upper classes.
Alternative form of uey.
Alternative form of U.
Abbreviation of United Kingdom.
Alternative spelling of UN.
Alternative form of UP.
Alternative spelling of US.
Initialism of Under Agreement, indicating an irrevocable trust.
Initialism of upper-case.
Abbreviation of unserviceable; also U/S.
Abbreviation of you too.
Initialism of Universal 2nd Factor, a standard to strengthen and simplify two-factor authentication (2FA).
Abbreviation of Undetectable = Untransmittable; if an HIV-positive person has an undetectable viral load, they cannot sexually transmit HIV to others.
Initialism of underage.
Initialism of University of Alaska Anchorage.
Initialism of University Athletic Association of the Philippines.
Initialism of User Account Control: a technology that limits application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes further privileges.
plural of UAC
Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)
plural of UAE
Initialism of Uganda Athletics Federation.
Abbreviation of uniform annual general charge.
Initialism of University of the Arts London.
Initialism of University of Arkansas at Monticello.
Initialism of unidentified anomalous phenomenon. The umbrella category for all environments.
plural of UAP
Initialism of Umm al-Quwain.
Initialism of United Arab Republic: a former country composed of modern Egypt and Syria.
Initialism of upper airway resistance syndrome
Acronym of universal asynchronous receiver transmitter.
Uaru amphiacanthoides, a species of cichlid native to South America where it occurs in clear streams of the Amazon Basin.
plural of UA
plural of UAS
Initialism of User Acceptance Testing.
Initialism of Universal Air Travel Plan: an airline-owned payment network.
Initialism of University of Austin.
A municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Initialism of unmanned aerial vehicle or uncrewed aerial vehicle: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, that is capable of controlled, sustained, level flight.
plural of UAV
Initialism of United Auto Workers.
Abbreviation of Unicode standard annex.
Initialism of Ulaanbaatar.
Abbreviation of you be too.
The shady side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, especially a north-facing slope.
Acronym of unlawful blood alcohol level.
A municipality and island of Bohol, Philippines.
Initialism of Uniform Building Code.
plural of UBC
The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.
A surname.
Super; high-level; high-ranking.
Initialism of universal basic income.
A Germanic tribe dwelling on the east bank of the Rhine in the time of Julius Caesar, who formed an alliance with them in 55 BC in order to launch attacks across the river.
Initialism of unincorporated business organization: a legal trust set up for the purposes of business.
plural of UBO
Union of Burma Ship. The designation of ships in the Burmese Navy.
A town in Bali, Indonesia.
Abbreviation of ultrabithorax.
Alternative form of Ubykh (an extinct language)
Initialism of University of California A university system in California
Initialism of Unicode Collation Algorithm, an algorithm which defines a customizable method to compare two strings. These comparisons can then be used to collate or sort text in any writing system and language that can be represented with Unicode.
Acronym of Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
Initialism of unmanned combat aerial vehicle.
Initialism of University of California, Berkeley.
Initialism of United Church of Christ in the Philippines.
Initialism of user-centered design.
Initialism of unsolicited commercial email; spam.
A river, village, and commune of Brașov County, Romania.
Initialism of University of Central Florida.
Initialism of unit, corps, God, country: in descending order of importance.
Initialism of Union Cycliste Internationale.
Alternative form of yuck.
A surname.
Alternative form of suck (in the particular sense of fellatio)
Initialism of University College London.
Initialism of University of California, Los Angeles.
plural of UCL
Initialism of University of Central Missouri.
Initialism of Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Initialism of unclassified controlled nuclear information.
Initialism of used cooking oil (for biodiesel).
A city and town in Idaho.
plural of UCO
Initialism of United Conservative Party, a political party in Alberta.
plural of UCP
Initialism of University of California, Riverside.
Initialism of Universal Coded Character Set, a set of characters standardized in ISO 10646.
Initialism of University of California, Santa Barbara.
Initialism of University of California, Santa Cruz.
Initialism of University of California, San Diego.
Initialism of University of California, San Francisco.
Initialism of uncorrelated target.
Acronym of Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977.
plural of UCT
Abbreviation of urine culture.
Abbreviation of undead.
Initialism of Ulster Defence Association.
Initialism of unlawful driving away of an automobile.
Alternative spelling of urad.
Allodial, inalienable.
Initialism of Universal Decimal Classification.
Abbreviation of ursodeoxycholic acid.
Initialism of user-driven development.
A surname.
A surname
plural of Ude
Initialism of Universal Disk Format.
plural of UDF
Initialism of user-defined graphic.
plural of UDG
Initialism of universal derailleur hanger, a standard for derailleur hangers developed by SRAM.
Initialism of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A Lezgic language (Northeast Caucasian) spoken by the Udi people who live mostly in Azerbaijan and nearby regions. Probably descended from Caucasian Albanian.
udic
Somewhat moist at most times of the year.
plural of UDI
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Initialism of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (“1,1-dimethylhydrazine”).
Japanese spikenard
A barangay of Libmanan, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
A transliteration of the Russian surname Удод (Udod).
A Japanese wheat noodle.
An oxisol in a humid climate.
Initialism of uridine diphosphate.
plural of UDP
Initialism of Umpire Decision Review System.
Initialism of unscheduled DNA synthesis.
Initialism of University of Dar es Salaam.
Initialism of user-defined type.
plural of UDT
A jug-shaped percussion instrument of Igbo origin.
A surname.
plural of Udy
Initialism of User Equipment (in UMTS).
Initialism of universal enveloping algebra.
plural of UEA
Initialism of Unified English Braille, an English language Braille code standard.
Initialism of Unified English Braille Code
A surname from Japanese.
Initialism of Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force.
Acronym of Union of European Football Associations.
Initialism of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface: a specification that defines a software interface between an operating system and platform firmware.
Initialism of upper explosive limit.
A river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Initialism of user experience management.
Abbreviation of unique entity number, a unique identification number given to a legal person.
A surname from Japanese.
comparative form of U (“the state or quality of being U (characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in the use of language)”): more U
Acronym of Underground Electric Railways Company of London Limited.
plural of u, the name of the letter U.
superlative form of U (“the state or quality of being U (characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in the use of language”): most U
A gewog of Haa District, Bhutan.
A surname from Japanese.
Alternative form of μeV; Abbreviation of microelectronvolt.
Alternative form of uey.
plural of uey
Alternative form of uyezd.
Ellipsis of University of Florida.
The capital and largest city of Bashkortostan, Russia.
plural of UFA
Initialism of Ultimate Fighting Championship, an American mixed martial arts promotion company.
Initialism of Uniform Function Call Syntax.
Initialism of United Food and Commercial Workers.
Initialism of unique factorization domain.
plural of UFD
Initialism of Ulster Freedom Fighters.
Initialism of unfractionated heparin.
Initialism of upper flammable limit.
A UFO.
plural of ufo
A disease of rice, caused by the nematode Ditylenchus angustus.
Initialism of Unified Forecast System, a suite of unified Earth system models.
Initialism of Unified Field Theory (a field theory that allows all fundamental forces and elementary particles to be written in terms of a pair of physical and virtual fields).
Initialism of Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act.
Initialism of United Farm Workers.
Initialism of United Front Work Department.
A feeling of fear, horror or disgust.
Initialism of University of Georgia.
A bronze metallophone used in the classical gamelan music of Indonesia.
A Nigerian condiment made from fermented African oil bean seeds (Pentaclethra macrophylla).
Initialism of Uppsala General Catalogue.
Initialism of underground facility.
plural of UGF
ugg boot
plural of ugg
Used to express repugnance, disgust, or annoyance.
A river in Buchan, Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, which reaches the North Sea at Peterhead.
Initialism of United Grand Lodge of England.
Citrus × paradisi, a cross between a tangerine, Citrus reticulata and grapefruit Citrus paradisi, grown in the West Indies.
The condition of being ugly.
plural of ug
A town in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Initialism of unmanned ground vehicle.
plural of UGV
Initialism of ultimate goal weight.
A surname from Igbo.
Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
Initialism of University Hospitals Birmingham, a hospital network, and the trust that operates it, part of the NHS, associated with the University of Birmingham, in West Midlands, England, UK.
Initialism of Universal Hejric Calendar.
Initialism of ultra-high definition (“3840×2160 (4K), 7680×4320 (8K), 15360 × 8640 (16K)”).
A surname.
Initialism of Ultra High Frequency.
plural of UHF
Initialism of ultra-high-frequency trading.
Alternative form of uh.
Initialism of urban heat island.
plural of UHI
A surname.
plural of Uhl
Alternative form of um.
Initialism of ultra-high molecular weight.
Alternative form of uh-oh.
Initialism of ultra-high purity.
Initialism of ultra-high-performance concrete (“a type of concrete with compressive strength that meets a specific standard”).
plural of uh
Initialism of ultra-high temperature.
Alternative spelling of uh-uh.
Initialism of ultra-high voltage.
Initialism of University Hospital of Wales.
Initialism of unemployment insurance.
Initialism of Unit Identification Code.
plural of UIC
Abbreviation of unique identifier.
plural of UID
Alternative form of uey.
plural of uie
Abbreviation of urine immunoglobulin G.
Initialism of unique instrument interface document.
A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.
A female given name from Japanese.
Abbreviation of underinsured motorist.
plural of UIM
Abbreviation of unsigned integer.
plural of UI
An archipelago of the Western Isles council area, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, consisting of North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and several smaller islands.
Initialism of United Jewish Appeal.
A surname.
A Japanese clan or kin group of the Kofun period.
plural of uji
The station code of Ujjain Junction railway station in India.
Initialism of unijunction transistor.
plural of UJT
Initialism of United Kingdom
Abbreviation of United Kingdom Accreditation Service
Alternative form of ukase.
Initialism of University of Kent at Canterbury.
Initialism of United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
plural of Uke
Initialism of United Kingdom Gambling Commission.
A clear Russian fish soup.
A locality in the Tweed council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Acronym of UK Independence Party.
Initialism of United Kingdom pound.
Abbreviation of Ukraine.
Abbreviation of Ukrainian.
Initialism of United Kingdom Research and Innovation
Initialism of UK Supreme Court.
Initialism of United Kingdom Special Forces.
Initialism of UK Trade & Investment.
Initialism of United Kingdom trust territory.
Initialism of UK Visas and Immigration.
FTSE 100
Initialism of University of Kentucky
Initialism of upload.
Initialism of uncommitted logic array.
Initialism of University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (a university in Dhaka, Bangladesh).
A surname.
Alternative form of uhlan.
plural of ULA
Initialism of ultralarge bulk carrier.
Initialism of Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, a product-safety testing laboratory.
Abbreviation of ultra large crude carrier (the largest category of crude carrier or oil tanker).
A people of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
Initialism of ultra large container vessel
Initialism of unit load device: a standardised pallet or container, used primarily for air freight.
Initialism of ultra light displacement boat, ultra lightweight racing sailboat that is especially fast when running downwind under spinnaker, developed and popularized in California, home of major downwind races.
Initialism of ultra-low-density lipoprotein.
plural of ULD
A Mexican and Central American tree (Castilla elastica), related to the breadfruit tree, whose milky juice contains caoutchouc.
simple past and past participle of UL
A surname from Ilocano.
Initialism of ultra-low-emission vehicle.
A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST7998).
Acronym of ultra low emission zone, an area in central London subject to stringent exhaust emission standards for motor vehicles; it was extended in 2023 to include all of Greater London.
Initialism of Ultra Low Frequency, the band of radio waves between 300 hertz and 3000 hertz.
Initialism of United Liberation Front of Asom.
plural of ULF
A surname.
Acronym of unit-linked insurance plan.
Alternative form of 'ullo.
An Áss associated with archery and skiing; the stepson of Thor.
A city on the River Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
A village and commune of Suceava County, Romania.
A county of Romania.
A commune of Brăila County, Romania.
Alternative form of ulno-
Abbreviation of ultralarge ore carrier.
The sound of a person gulping in fear.
Initialism of ultra-low particulate air.
plural of ULP
Initialism of ultra long range.
Initialism of upper limit of reference range.
plural of ul
Abbreviation of Ulster.
Initialism of ultralow sulfur diesel.
A surname.
Abbreviation of ultra large scale integration.
Initialism of ultralow sulfur petrol.
Abbreviation of ultimo (of last month).
Contraction of ultimo (of last month).
plural of ult
Initialism of upper limb tension test.
An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.
Alternative form of Ulúa.
plural of ulu
A small island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland, off the coast of Mull (OS grid ref NM4040).
A Misumalpan language from Nicaragua.
Abbreviation of ultra-luminous X-ray (the individual X-rays are not ultraluminous).
Abbreviation of ultraluminous X-ray burst.
Synonym of Cacaopera (“language”).
Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation.
Prefix meaning around, about.
Initialism of unified memory access.
A city in Croatia.
A city and raion of Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine.
A surname.
plural of UMA
Initialism of upper memory block.
Alternative form of um-.
Initialism of University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
A cloth-covered frame used for protection against rain or sun.
Initialism of United Methodist Church.
Initialism of University of Maryland, College Park.
plural of UMD
Japanese apricot, a species of Asian plum, Prunus mume.
plural of ume
A city on the east coast of northern Sweden.
Acronym of Unified Multi-Purpose ID
Initialism of University of Missouri–Kansas City
Initialism of Unified Modeling Language.
Initialism of Unified Medical Language System.
Alternative form of um.
Alternative spelling of ummah.
third-person singular simple present indicative of umm
Acronym of United Malays National Organisation (“a Malay conservative political party in Malaysia”).
Initialism of ugly man on campus.
Alternative spelling of µmol.
Alternative form of humph (“sound of doubt or disapproval”).
An official who presides over a sports match.
Initialism of ultra mega power plant.
plural of ump
Alternative form of 'umra.
plural of um
Initialism of University of Missouri-St. Louis
Initialism of universal military training.
Initialism of Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.
An earth oven used in New Zealand, Samoa, and other Pacific islands, consisting of a hole dug in the ground and lined with heated stones.
plural of umu
Initialism of United Mine Workers of America.
Initialism of United Nations.
A Unix-like operating system (e.g., Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc.).
not
A female given name from Irish.
Not able; lacking a certain ability.
A village in Ariège department, Occitania, France.
A two-toed sloth.
single, based on the number one
Not announced beforehand.
That has not been answered or addressed.
An Egyptian pharaoh of the fifth dynasty
Not assisted; without assistance
Not handsome or beautiful or appealing.
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, Choloepus didactylus, a two-toed sloth native to South America.
Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
Initialism of University of New Brunswick.
To cause to be out of balance.
To lack being; to be nonexistent.
That cannot be beaten, defeated or overcome
Not to be believed.
One who does not believe, particularly in a deity (used by believers to describe people who do not believe in the same deity or deities as themselves).
To remove a bend so as to make, or allow to become, straight.
Difficult or impossible to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.
Whole, not divided into parts.
to unfasten (the buckle of (a belt, shoe, etc))
Not buckled.
simple past and past participle of unbury
Not burned.
To open (something) by undoing its buttons.
simple past and past participle of unbutton
A phenotype of Caenorhabditis elegans that moves in an uncoordinated manner.
Uncle (especially as a term of address).
Not called.
To remove a physical cap or cover from.
Characterized by a lack of care; not caring.
Not catchable; that cannot be caught.
Early Modern spelling of ounce.
Not certain; unsure.
Initialism of United Negro College Fund.
An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).
To remove chains from someone or something.
Free from chains or fetters; unencumbered.
Not changed or altered; remaining in an original state.
To remove a checkmark.
plural of uncus
Dirty, soiled or foul.
The state of being unclean
Ambiguous; liable to more than one interpretation.
To remove a blockage from.
Strange, weird.
Not combed.
Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
Rare; not readily found; unusual.
Not completed.
Raw and not cooked, especially of something that should be, or is sometimes cooked.
Not cooperative.
Not corrected.
To remove a cover from.
Deficient in or devoid of creativity and originality.
To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position.
Not crushed.
plural of unc
To anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.
Not eager to learn or find answers.
To straighten out from being curled up.
Initialism of University of North Dakota
Open and not yet settled or determined.
Never defeated; always victorious.
Not dependable.
The armpit.
clothes worn next to the skin and underneath outer clothing
clothing worn next to the skin; underwear.
Below the ground; below the surface of the Earth.
A line placed underneath a piece of text in order to provide emphasis or to indicate that it should be viewed in italics or (in electronic documents) that it acts as a hyperlink.
Existing, relating to, or made for use beneath the sea.
An undergarment worn beneath a shirt, often collarless and sleeveless.
Underpants, type of underwear worn in skin contact with the hip portion of the body, small enough to be worn invisibly under shorts. Typically refers to male, not female, underpants.
Smaller than normal, undersized.
To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
Capable of being understood; comprehensible.
The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
Initialism of United Nations Development Group.
That has not been discovered; unknown, unexplored.
uncoupling non-driving motor
An operation that reverses a previous action.
Initialism of United Nations Development Programme.
To remove one's clothing.
Not drinkable.
plural of und
Alternative form of undé.
Waving or wavy; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.
Initialism of University of New England.
Trouble; misery; a feeling of disquiet or concern.
Not eatable; not fit for eating.
Not eaten.
Initialism of United Nations Emergency Force.
Not ending; having no end; eternal.
Initialism of United Nations Environment Programme.
Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
Not exciting.
Not explained; of unknown cause or origin.
Which has not been explored.
Initialism of University of North Florida.
Not just.
The state of being unfair; lack of justice.
Strange, not familiar.
To detach from any connecting agency or link; to disconnect.
Not fastened.
Not fed.
Not completed; unresolved.
To undo a folding.
Very difficult or impossible to forget.
To defrost something.
present participle and gerund of unfreeze
The state of being unfriendly.
Not friendly; hostile; mean.
simple past of unfreeze
Not frozen.
Not funny
A surname.
Sarotherodon linnellii, a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
Used for emotional emphasis, usually in funk music.
simple past and past participle of unglue
In an impious, irreverent, or ungodly manner; ungodlily.
plural of Ung
Alternative form of uh.
The feeling of not being happy.
characterized by, or conducive to poor health
Not heard.