Middle School Vocabulary
114,351 words and 1,048 expressions at the middle school level.
Abbreviation of uranium-235.
A U-shaped bend, usually the bend in a waste pipe.
a metal fixing in the shape of the letter U, which has a pin or screw bolt closure which fits across the two ends making a closed clamp
Abbreviation of uranium bomb
Alternative spelling of UW (“University of Washington”).
plural of U-ey
A rental vehicle, especially a moving truck.
plural of u-ie
The state or quality of being U (characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in the use of language).
Of a farm operation, in which a customer can harvest the produce they wish to purchase.
A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /u/.
A tube in the shape of a capital U, in certain applications having a semipermeable membrane in the middle.
A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
Any word beginning with u, especially one that is (sometimes humorously) treated as controversial in a given context, such as union or uppity.
Abbreviation of United Arab Emirates.
Dated spelling of USA.
Initialism of United States Code.
Alternative form of US'er.
An abbreviation that is put before ships, United States Ship
Initialism of United Arab Emirates Air Force.
Any of several arboreal monkeys, of the genus Cacajao, from the Amazon basin.
A locality in the Warrumbungle council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
plural of UART
A river of the Amazon forest.
Former name of São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Initialism of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker.
Alternative form of wayeb.
plural of uayeb
plural of ubac
A prehistoric period of Mesopotamia, circa 6500 to 3800 BCE.
A surname from Spanish
A surname.
A river in Central Africa, the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo River.
A transliteration of the Macedonian female given name Убавка (Ubavka)
A surname from German.
plural of Ubben
simple past and past participle of Uber
plural of Uber
A surname.
A surname from Italian.
Fertile growth, abundance, fruitfulness; copiousness, plenty.
The state of existing in a specific point in space, thereness.
Abbreviation of Ubisoft.
A Japanese yokai that appears as a crone with a child in her arms, imploring the passer-by to hold her infant, then disappearing; the child then proves to be a heavy boulder.
A Nguni Bantu ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other.
witchcraft (among the Xhosa people)
A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia.
plural of Ubykh
Acronym of unified communications as a service.
plural of UCAV
Initialism of Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act.
Initialism of Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act.
A municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium.
Synonym of Yuchi (“a language”).
Alternative form of Yuchi.
plural of Uchee
A surname from Japanese.
Okinawa, especially in the context of native Okinawan culture.
Alternative form of Uchina.
A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
A person who performs fellatio.
A board game traditionally played in various Commonwealth navies, similar to Ludo.
Abbreviation of University of Connecticut.
Initialism of urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome.
Abbreviation of Upper Cretaceous.
The tree Virola sebifera.
One who holds property by udal, or allodial, right.
A kind of alfisol found in humid climates.
plural of udalf
A surname.
plural of Udall
A barangay of Piagapo, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.
plural of udal
A kind of andisol associated with humid climates.
plural of udand
Abbreviation of Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit.
A member of a religious sect of ascetics centred in northern India, who rose to prominence in the 17th century and gained control of Sikh shrines in the 18th century.
plural of Udasi
A town in Croatia.
plural of udder
A surname from Bengali.
plural of Uddin
Alternative form of Udihe.
Alternative form of Udihe.
A surname.
plural of Udell
A kind of inceptisol found in humid climates.
plural of udept
A vertisol with cracks that are open for less than 90 cumulative days per year and less than 60 consecutive days during the summer. In some areas, cracks open only in drought years.
plural of udert
A commune of Suceava County, Romania.
A barangay of Rosario, La Union, Philippines.
An ethnic group that lives in far eastern Russia.
A city and comune in Friuli-Venezia Giulia autonomous region, Italy.
Synonym of Eye of Horus.
plural of udjat
A Finnic language spoken in Udmurtia, a republic of Russia.
A male given name
A kind of mollisol found in areas with an udic moisture regime.
plural of udoll
A male given name
plural of udon
plural of udox
Abbreviation of uridine diphosphoglucuronic acid.
A kind of ultisol found in areas with a udic moisture regime.
plural of udult
A city in Karnataka, in southwestern India.
A high pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, customarily marked with acute accent.
A surname.
A surname from Japanese.
A surname from German.
plural of Ueda
A surname from Japanese.
Coastal Chukchi village in eastern Siberia - the easternmost settlement in Russia and the closest place to Alaska, USA.
plural of uezd
plural of uezd
Alternative spelling of oofta.
A term for sensory overload. Can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment and sometimes dismay.
grumpy, ill-tempered
A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.
A village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF0904).
A single-wavelength excitable brainbow for simultaneous multicolor ex vivo and in vivo imaging of mammalian cells.
A focus of UFO activity.
Initialism of unidentified flying object experiencer (“a person who has witnessed a UFO or has established contact with its alien occupants”).
plural of UFOer
Initialism of United (formerly Universal) Federation of Travel Agents' Associations.
A small village and civil parish in Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP3762).
the annual celebration of the New Year according to the lunar Hindu calendar in multiple Indian cultures, particularly Telugu and Kannada traditions
A surname from Basque.
African cornmeal porridge
plural of ugal
A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Uganda.
The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, which is endemic to Australia.
plural of ugari
An ancient port city in northern Syria, discovered by accident in 1928 together with the Ugaritic texts.
A surname.
A barangay of the municipality of Leyte, province of Leyte, Philippines.
simple past and past participle of ug
The Oxford Union.
plural of ugger
present participle and gerund of ug
To make dirty.
simple past and past participle of uggle
third-person singular simple present indicative of uggle
plural of uggo
A small village in Essex, England.
simple past and past participle of ugly
comparative form of ugly: more ugly
plural of ugly
To make ugly; to destroy or worsen the appearance or attractiveness of.
In an ugly manner.
plural of ugli
Ugandan English.
plural of ugmo
A barangay of Pasig, Metro Manila, Philippines.
A barangay of M'lang, Cotabato, Philippines.
A member of the race of ancestors of the present Hungarians.
Of or pertaining to a group of languages that includes Hungarian, Khanty and Mansi.
Ugric; Ugrian
Alternative form of oogruk (“bearded seal”).
plural of ugrug
Alternative form of oogruk (“bearded seal”).
plural of ugruk
Ugly; horrible; disgusting; offensive, loathsome, repellent.
plural of Ugwu
Yes; yeah.
A musical bow of the Xhosa people.
Waltheria indica, a plant in the mallow family.
Abbreviation of University of Hartford.
Initialism of ultra-high-density polyethylene.
plural of Uher
plural of UHFT
Alternative spelling of uh-huh.
A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.
plural of uhlan
A surname.
plural of Uhler
A surname.
plural of Uhlig
A surname from Czech.
plural of Uhlir
abalone shells, used in trade by the Native Americans
A surname.
Initialism of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene.
A city in Belz hromada, Sheptytskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
A surname.
plural of Uhrig
freedom
Initialism of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.
plural of UIgG
Alternative spelling of Uyghur.
A variety of chlorastrolite found on the island of Skye.
Obsolete form of Uyghur.
Alternative form of Uyghur.
plural of UIID
Alternative form of winal.
plural of uinal
A small city in Weber County, Utah, United States.
An age from 46.2 to 42 million years ago, a subdivision of the Eocene.
Synonym of Uinta Mountains.
plural of uint
Alternative form of Wiriná (“an Arawakan language”).
Alternative form of Witoto.
Alternative form of Witoto.
A village and commune of Timiș County, Romania.
plural of Ujah
A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
A surname from Japanese.
A historic town in Kigoma Region, western Tanzania, the place where Henry Morton Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone.
Collective work and responsibility, in the context of African-American culture.
A city in Ujjain district in the region of Malwa in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
A diaphragmatic breath technique used in a variety of Taoist and yoga practices.
A surname.
An authoritative proclamation; an edict, especially decreed by a Russian czar or later ruler.
plural of ukase.
A kind of ukiyo-e (“Japanese painting or woodblock print showing a scene of everyday life”) depicting an auspicious subject, which was popular in Japan during the late 1800s.
A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.
The set of breakfall and roll techniques used by uke to safely fall and accept attacks from tori.
Abbreviation of United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association.
Initialism of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
A district of Manipur, India.
Initialism of United Kingdom Health Security Agency.
A city, the county seat of Mendocino County, California, United States.
Abbreviation of "UK"IRT "I"nfrared "D"eep "S"ky "S"urvey.
plural of Ukie
A supporter or member of UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party)
Abbreviation of UK Infrared Telescope.
hedonistic urban culture of the Edo period.
Alternative form of ukiyo-e.
Alternative form of ukiyo-e.
Alternative form of Uccle.
Alternative form of Uckers.
Initialism of United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations.
A West African surname from Igbo which originated and is chiefly found among the Igbo-speaking people of Nigeria.
oilbean
Initialism of United Kingdom Protected Persons Service.
Combining form of Ukrainian.
Initialism of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
plural of UKTT
A small four-stringed guitar.
Initialism of United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation: a United Kingdom defence organisation (1957 to 1992).
A people of Early Ireland who gave their name to the Irish province of Ulster.
A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
Alternative form of oolak.
plural of ulank
plural of ulan
plural of ULBC
plural of ULCC
A village in Ulceby with Fordington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF4272).
plural of ulcus
plural of ulcer
Resembling or characteristic of an ulcer.
Alternative form of Ulch.
A town and municipality of Montenegro.
A rounded, pore-like aperture at either pole of a pollen grain.
plural of ULDB
plural of ULDL
plural of alim; the guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam; clerics.
plural of ulema
plural of Ulep
A surname.
plural of Ulery
Relating to the gums.
plural of ULEZ
Alternative form of eulachon.
A commune of Harghita County, Romania.
Alternative form of eulachon.
present participle and gerund of ul
plural of Ulin
plural of ULIP
Acronym of ultra-luminous infra-red galaxy.
plural of ULIRG
An atoll in the Caroline Islands of the western Pacific Ocean, about 191 km (103 nmi) east of Yap.
Inflammation of the gums.
To gauge the amount of empty space between the top of a cask and the level of liquid inside it.
A surname.
plural of Ullah
A variety of the Scots language spoken in Northern Ireland (Ulster).
A surname.
The tawny owl, Strix aluco.
plural of ullet
Synonym of the Helmsdale: a river in Highland council area, which flows into the North Sea at Helmsdale.
A locality in the Shire of Hepburn, central western Victoria, Australia.
Synonym of ullage (“the topping-up of a barrel with fresh wine”).
A surname.
A surname from Galician.
plural of Ulloa
A small village in Dean parish, Cumberland district, Cumbria, England, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY0723).
A surname.
plural of Ullom
Ullucus tuberosus, a vegetable of South America with edible roots and leaves.
Alternative form of ulluco.
A surname.
plural of Ulman
Any salt of ulmic acid.
A commune of Buzău County, Romania.
A surname from German.
plural of Ulmer
Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.
A brown amorphous substance found in decaying vegetation.
Alternative form of ulmin.
plural of ulmin
ulmic; relating to ulmin
Toward the ulna.
plural of ulna
Obsolete form of alnage.
Of or pertaining to the ulna, or the elbow
One of the carpal bones, situated at the distal end of the ulna.
plural of ulna
ulna
Alternative form of oolak.
plural of ulock
plural of ULOC
Any beetle of the family Ulodidae.
scar-like
A locality in the Coffs Harbour council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
An Israeli school where the Hebrew language is taught to new immigrants.
plural of ulpan
A large civil parish and small village in Copeland borough, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD1993).
A surname.
plural of Ulrey
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A female given name from the Germanic languages, rare in English.
A surname.
A surname.
A surname.
A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, with a population of 236 as of the 2011 census.
A city in South Korea.
plural of Ulsh
simple past and past participle of ult
The final syllable of a word.
Final; last in a series.
A final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, especially one that expresses a threat of reprisal or war if the terms are not met before some specified date and time.
Ultimate; final.
On the last day (of a specified month).
present participle and gerund of ult
revenge
Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.
Greater than normal quantity or importance, as in ultrasecret.
Extremely low.
plural of ultra
Of electromagnetic radiation beyond (higher in frequency than) light visible to the human eye; radiation with wavelengths from 380 to 10 nanometres.
plural of ULTT
plural of ulua
The fern Dicranopteris linearis.
Alternative form of uluhe (“kind of fern”).
plural of ulu
Alternative form of ullaloo.
An auspicious cry uttered by Indian women on festive occasions.
A locality in the Shire of Moira, northern Victoria, Australia.
A giant free-standing rock in central Australia.
plural of ulus
Any of a class of sulfated polysaccharides found in the cell wall of the green alga Ulva pertusa.
plural of ulvan
plural of ulva
ulvöspinel
Any green alga of the genus Ulva.
A transliteration of the Belarusian female given name Улля́на (Ulljána)
A surname.
Alternative form of mhm.
plural of umdah
A surname.
plural of Umali
Abbreviation of University Mall: a mall in Malate district, Manila, Philippines.
A barangay of Libmanan, Camarines Sur, Philippines.
One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
A surname.
plural of Umana
plural of emir
plural of emir
A member of the al-Omari, a family claiming descent from Umar, the second caliph of the Islamic empire.
A district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
plural of Umari
plural of Umar
plural of emir
Abbreviation of University of Massachusetts.
Synonym of Umayyad.
plural of Umawi
The progenitor of the Umayyad dynasty.
Alternative form of um-.
To go around.
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.
plural of umbel
plural of umber
Of or pertaining to umber; like umber.
Of, or relating to, the navel (umbilicus) or the umbilical cord.
A suburb of Durban, South Africa, named after the river.
An inosilicate mineral of potassium, zirconium and titanium
Animal entrails, especially of a deer.
plural of umbo
Synonym of umbo.
plural of umbo
Agency.
The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
plural of umbra
Of or relating to an umbra.
plural of umbra
Obsolete form of umber.
An umbrere; the visor of a helmet
plural of umbre
An Italic tribe of ancient Italy.
An administrative region in central Italy.
Essentially mollic but with a lower base saturation.
Any member of the family Umbridae of mudminnows and close relatives.
Alternative form of umbrel.
Pertaining to Umbria or Umbrian.
plural of umbra
To bind or wrap around.
A village headman in Egypt.
plural of umdah
A Papuan language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
A female given name from Japanese.
A Japanese liqueur made by steeping unripe ume fruits in alcohol (or saké) and sugar.
A young boy hired to look after cattle or to perform errands, etc.
A round about; a way around; detour.
Alternative spelling of umiak.
Dated form of umiak.
plural of umiac
A large, open boat made of skins stretched over a wooden frame that is propelled by paddles; used by the Eskimos for transportation.
plural of umiak
Alternative spelling of umiak.
plural of umiaq
plural of umiak
Acronym of University of Michigan.
A female given name from Japanese.
Synonym of Umiri balsam.
Initialism of University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
The environs of a city, town, or village that are part of the main community through common economic and cultural activities.
A surname from German.
A gewog of Sarpang District, Bhutan.
The worldwide Muslim community.
plural of ummah
plural of umma
simple past and past participle of um
present participle and gerund of um
A Buddhist monk and philosopher, Yunmen Wenyan.
One of the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands.
Synonym of pink ivory (“an African hardwood”).
plural of UMOC
To unmount.
Initialism of uridine monophosphate.
A cloud-shaped gong rung in a Zen monastery to announce mealtimes, etc.
simple past and past participle of ump
plural of umpy
present participle and gerund of ump
plural of UMPP
An umbrella group of several distinct tribal entities of Native Americans of the Umpqua Basin in present-day south central Oregon, United States.
An Aleut burial practice involving burial mounds typically located on the edge of bluffs.
Alternative form of 'umra.
plural of umrah
plural of umra
Former name of Mutare, Zimbabwe.
Alternative form of Mthatha.
A river in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Former name of Mvuma, Zimbabwe.
One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
A Zulu person.
plural of UN*X
simple past of un-eat
Alternative form of uneat.
Politically incorrect.
In an unable way; without skill or ability.
Abbreviation of unabridged.
The property of being unacceptable.
Unsatisfactory; not acceptable.
travelling without companions
Not accomplished; Not having occurred or been successfully carried out.
Inexplicable; unable to be accounted for or explained.
Not accounted
Not used to an event or thing, not accustomed.
To relieve from pain; soothe
That cannot be achieved (or only with great difficulty).
Not acquainted, unfamiliar (with someone or something).
To undo the acting of; to reverse (an action).
third-person singular simple present indicative of unact
To remove something after it has been added.
third-person singular simple present indicative of unadd
A Japanese dish of grilled glazed eel fillets served on steamed white rice.
Not having received advice.
Not affected or changed.
Too expensive to be afforded.
Not afraid.
Not having been aged.
A type of sushi made from freshwater eel.
Without the help, aid or assistance of someone or something.
Abbreviation of Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
plural of unai
A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, the Unakas.
A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina; since 1932 defined as the northern segment (north of the Little Tennessee River) of a range the southern segment of which is known as the Unicois (historically the two names sometimes interchangeably designated the whole range).
Not akin; not allied by nature; dissimilar.
of an unlike kind; different
Incapable of being altered, or of changing.
Remaining in its initial state; not changed.
A Native American people, one of the three main divisions of the Lenape Nation.
Acronym of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
The palm tree Oenocarpus bataua.
Alternative form of unamo.
simple past and past participle of unanchor
A form of traditional medicine practiced in the Middle East and South Asian countries, based on the concept of the four humours: phlegm, blood, yellow bile, and black bile.
Based on unanimity, assent or agreement.