Words |
Parts of Speech |
Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
ultratropical |
adjective |
Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics. |
ultrazodiacal |
adjective |
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. |
umbelliferone |
noun |
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 Umbelliferae, as galbanum, asafetida, etc. It is analogous to coumarin. Called also hydroxy-coumarin. |
umbelliferous |
adjective |
Producing umbels., Of or pertaining to a natural order (Umbelliferae) of plants, of which the parsley, carrot, parsnip, and fennel are well-known examples. |
umbraculiform |
adjective |
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; umbrella-shaped. |
unaccountable |
adjective |
Not accountable or responsible; free from control., Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. |
unadulterated |
adjective |
Not adulterated; pure. |
unappropriate |
adjective |
Inappropriate; unsuitable., Not appropriated., To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. |
unbarricadoed |
adjective |
Not obstructed by barricades; open; as, unbarricadoed streets. |
unbenevolence |
noun |
Absence or want of benevolence; ill will. |
uncertainties |
plural |
of Uncertainty |
unchristianly |
adjective |
Unchristian., In an unchristian manner. |
uncircumcised |
noun |
Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites. |
uncomfortable |
adjective |
Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one’s position., Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. |
unconceivable |
adjective |
Inconceivable. |
unconcernment |
noun |
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. |
unconditional |
adjective |
Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. |
unconditioned |
adjective |
Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional., Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. |
unconformable |
adjective |
Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming., Not conformable; not lying in a parallel position; as, unconformable strata. |
unconquerable |
adjective |
Not conquerable; indomitable. |
unconsiderate |
adjective |
Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. |
unconspicuous |
adjective |
Inconspicuous. |
uncontestable |
adjective |
Incontestable. |
uncorruptible |
adjective |
Incorruptible. |
uncourtliness |
noun |
Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. |
uncreatedness |
noun |
The quality or state of being uncreated. |
uncunningness |
noun |
Ignorance. |
undefatigable |
adjective |
Indefatigable. |
underbuilding |
noun |
Same as Substruction. |
underclothing |
noun |
Same as Underclothes. |
underestimate |
verb t. |
To set to/ low a value on; to estimate below the truth., The act of underestimating; too low an estimate. |
under-garment |
noun |
A garment worn below another. |
undergraduate |
noun |
A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course., Of or pertaining to an undergraduate, or the body of undergraduates. |
underhandedly |
adverb |
In an underhand manner. |
underminister |
verb t. |
To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation. |
underministry |
noun |
A subordinate or inferior ministry. |
underniceness |
noun |
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. |
understanding |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Understand, Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man., The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation., An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another., The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends., Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason. |
understrapper |
noun |
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. |
understratums |
plural |
of Understratum |
undestroyable |
adjective |
Indestructible. |
undeterminate |
adjective |
Nor determinate; not settled or certain; indeterminate. |
undispensable |
adjective |
Indispensable., Unavoidable; inevitable., Not to be freed by dispensation. |
undistinctive |
adjective |
Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial. |
undomesticate |
verb t. |
To make wild or roving. |
undulationist |
noun |
One who advocates the undulatory theory of light. |
unembarrassed |
adjective |
Not embarrassed., Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed., Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed., Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter. |
unempirically |
adverb |
Not empirically; without experiment or experience. |
unessentially |
adverb |
In an unessential manner. |
unexhaustible |
adjective |
Inexhaustible. |
unexpectation |
noun |
Absence of expectation; want of foresight. |
unexperienced |
adjective |
Not experienced; being without experience; inexperienced., Untried; — applied to things. |
unexpressible |
adjective |
Inexpressible. |
unforeseeable |
adjective |
Incapable of being foreseen. |
unforeskinned |
adjective |
Deprived of the foreskin; circumcised. |
unforgettable |
adjective |
Not forgettable; enduring in memory. |
unibranchiate |
adjective |
Having but one gill, as certain molluscs. |
uniflagellate |
adjective |
Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms. |
unimpeachable |
adjective |
Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. |
uninfringible |
adjective |
That may not be infringed; as, an uninfringible monopoly. |
unitarianized |
imp. & past participle |
of Unitarianize |
universalties |
plural |
of Universality |
universalized |
imp. & past participle |
of Universalize |
universalness |
noun |
The quality or state of being universal; universality. |
unoperculated |
adjective |
Destitute of an operculum, or cover. |
unoriginately |
adverb |
Without origin. |
unpossibility |
noun |
Impossibility. |
unpracticable |
adjective |
Impracticable; not feasible. |
unprecedented |
adjective |
Having no precedent or example; not preceded by a like case; not having the authority of prior example; novel; new; unexampled. |
unproficiency |
noun |
Want of proficiency or improvement. |
unreformation |
noun |
Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. |
unregenerated |
adjective |
Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God. |
unremembrance |
noun |
Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. |
unremorseless |
adjective |
Utterly remorseless. |
unreprievable |
adjective |
Not capable of being reprieved. |
unresponsible |
adjective |
Irresponsible. |
unsatiability |
noun |
Quality of being unsatiable; insatiability. |
unsoutcheoned |
adjective |
Destitute of an escutcheon. |
unsettledness |
noun |
The quality or state of being unsettled. |
unsignificant |
adjective |
Insignificant. |
unsociability |
noun |
The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness. |
unspecialized |
adjective |
Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. |
unspiritalize |
verb t. |
To deprive of spiritually. |
unsubstantial |
adjective |
Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical. |
unsucceedable |
adjective |
Not able or likely to succeed. |
unsufficience |
noun |
Alt. of Unsufficiency |
unsufficiency |
noun |
Insufficiency. |
unsupportable |
adjective |
Insupportable; unendurable. |
unsymmetrical |
adjective |
Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion pf parts., Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry., Being without symmetry of chemical structure or relation; as, an unsymmetrical carbon atom. |
untangibility |
noun |
Intangibility. |
untemperately |
adverb |
Intemperately. |
unthriftfully |
adverb |
Not thriftily. |
unthriftihead |
noun |
Alt. of Unthriftihood |
unthriftihood |
noun |
Untriftiness. |
unthriftiness |
noun |
The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness. |
unwarrantable |
adjective |
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. |
uprighteously |
adverb |
In an upright or just manner. |
uralitization |
noun |
The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism. |
uraniscoraphy |
noun |
Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy |
uranographist |
noun |
One practiced in uranography. |
urethroplasty |
noun |
An operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra. |