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310 words beginning with u

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unschnoodlenugen - "I don't know (or understand). Please explain."

e.g., Ekat: Do you know why shy rabbits hop? Kandy: Unschnoodlenugen.

submitted by Ekaterini

unsensatock - When someone is talking nonsense she is talking unsensatock.

e.g., Your parents are talking about moving. You walk up and say, "That is unsensatock -- I don't want to leave my school."

submitted by Jess

unshushable - in a movie theatre, when a person will not stop talking, even when asked to stop. a group of such people are known as the unshushables.

e.g., i couldn't enjoy the film at all, due to the unshushables behind us.

submitted by ryan - (www)

unsightful - A term, generally used sarcastically, to indicate that another's comments are ridiculously facile and tedious.

e.g., Your thoughts on the iconography of hair are remarkably unsightful.

submitted by Tom Coates

unsitely - Something of questionable to dubious to poor taste posted on a website.

e.g., Emilou Herbingminger's reply in response to Harvy Smedlap's overture was simply unsitely.

submitted by John Breen

unsketch - The opposite of sketch(y).

e.g., Your Susan Day joke was the ~unsketchiest I've ever seen. Oh, who the fug is Susan Day?

submitted by Philip Meehan

unsult - A well-meaning compliment that sounds like an insult or a passive-aggressive or backhanded compliment.

e.g., Jane unsulted Jim today. She told him that he looked better today than he normally does.

submitted by Joe Booty

unsuperb - Terrible, not in the least bit superb.

e.g., I could not believe how unsuperb the book was, could you, Nicole?

submitted by ali

unteresting - The opposite of interesting.

e.g., Give me more time and maybe I can think of something other than this unteresting example.

submitted by Penny Couch

unthaw - To refreeze thawed meat.

e.g., We decided not to eat the steak after all, so we unthawed it.

submitted by Michael Kivari

untooned - A photorealistic rendering of a cartoon character as if the character lived in the real world.

e.g., Despite its looking like a photo, that is an untooned image of Eeyore (or Jessica Rabbit, or Popeye, or The Pink Panther or. . . .).

submitted by Hap

ununderstand - To unlearn something or to obscure or to recognize that you are being misunderstood or not understood.

e.g., I can see from your vacant stares that I am making myself ununderstood.

submitted by Zeromay Zentroclo

unvendable - The inability to use a vending machine, either from not having enough change or too large a bill.

e.g., I really wanted a soda for lunch, but a $20 makes me completely unvendable.

submitted by Sam Spade

unvent - To negate the invention of something; to do away with technology we're better off without.

e.g., Don't you wish the nuclear bomb could be unvented?

submitted by Rick Smith

unvincibled - When someone thinks she is invincible, but is eventually proven wrong, often in an embarrassing or humiliating way.

e.g., Chris used to think he was invincible in the boxing ring . . . until I unvincibled him.

submitted by Chris Russell - (www)

unvitation - An empty invitation, an invitation given that you are not meant to (or wouldn't want to) accept.

e.g., My ex-girlfriend sent me an unvitation to her birthday party at her fiancee's house.

submitted by Bob

unwin - (n.) a prosaic, often disappointingly banal, explanation for something (process, arrangement, event, etc.) to which one has attached some greater meaning; 2. (v.) to point out or inform someon of the banal and prosaic origin of something to which they had attached some meaning.

e.g., THE TRILOGY UNWIN: Everyone seems to think fantasies just sort of fall into trilogies; in reality, however, the fantasy trilogy was created by the publishing company of Allen & Unwin who worried that JRR Tolkien's six books were each too small to be published alone but that three together would make too big a volume -- so they created the "LotR Trilogy," by selling two books as 'The Fellowship,' two as 'The Two Towers,' and two as 'The Return of the King.' It wasn't magic; it was marketing.

submitted by Scott M. Ellsworth

unwinese - Gobbledegook invented by the late, great Professor Stanley Unwin.

e.g., The album "Ogdens Nutgone Flake" is narrated in Unwinese.

submitted by Adam Leslie

up - To raise, to increase.

e.g., By the end of the week, Sally felt that she should "up" all of her employees wages by two cents.

submitted by Uncle Slam

up for a good sloshing - Going to get drunk.

e.g., "Hey, what're you doing tonight, Lauryn?" "Oh, I'm up for a good sloshing."

submitted by lauryn

up in this piece - Used to mean in this area, or building.

e.g., There's all sorts of people up in this piece.

submitted by Zak

up the ziggurat, lickety-split - Phrase coined by Arnold Rimmer, meaning to get promoted or climb the ranks.

e.g., First I'll pass this exam, then it'll be up the ziggurat, lickety-split.

submitted by Alex

up to new jersey - People in NH and ME say they are going "up to NJ" which makes no sense to people from NJ who say they are going up to NH or ME. By the same token, no one from NJ can understand why ME is called "downeast." However, people from the upper Hudson Bay, or the Arctic Circle, or Northern Alberta understand that ME is "downeast." I am not sure why this helps understand "up to NJ," though.

e.g., John Momo, who was in from New Hampshire, asked George Di Maggio if he was going up to New Jersey for the holidays.

submitted by george kelly

up-against-the-wall-nut - Perhaps a minor fetish of sorts, someone who loves to hear and see "Up against the wall" and the resulting frisking.

e.g., My cousin is a real up-against-the-wall-nut. I think that's why he tries to get arrested so often.

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

up-dump - To drop, flip, or lose grip on a container in which things are organized in a particular way, causing everything inside of it to fall out of place.

e.g., When Erin Marie got home from cake decorating, her dog jumped on her, causing her to up-dump her box of decorating tips.

submitted by Erin Marie

up-talk - Up-talk is just a language. Here's how to speak it. My name is Jeri, so in up-talk it is Jop~e~Rop~i. A bop scop dop e fop gop hop o jop kop lop mop nop o pop qop rop sop top u vop wop xop yop zop-- your abc's in up-talk.

e.g., I know how to speak up-talk. Here's my name: Jop~e~rop~i.

submitted by jeri

upair - Upair is Southern for up there.

e.g., Q: Where's the dust jacket for my book? A: Upair on da sheff.

submitted by Sharr

upazooty - A sickness or illness.

e.g., Kevin couldn't make it to the game since he came down with the upazooty.

submitted by Sue Wortman

upcrease - Increasing, especially in frequency of occurrence, but with a more correct directional grammar prefix.

e.g., The use of "upcrease" is on the upcrease.

submitted by Ben - (www)

updatable - The ability of something to be updated. The spelling follows the syntax of other forms of the word such as updating and updated. Could also be spelled "updateable."

e.g., This database is updatable, but I have nothing more to add.

submitted by Clint Morgan

updateulate - To update or populate a database. Used in code comments when you do not know what exactly you will be doing.

e.g., Need to updateulate the items table with incoming data.

submitted by atomicfroman

updation - The process of updating documents, traffic reports, statistics, etc.

e.g., This traffic updation was brought to you by kaybay94.5.

submitted by Smita Rao

updog - A word to describe something spilled on an article of clothing.

e.g., Oooh, you got updog all over your self.

submitted by ben moore

upectomy - Removing the UPC from a product package, generally for rebate submission.

e.g., Although the surgeon lost his license to perform traditional surgery, he was still able to perform an upectomy when necessary.

submitted by Robert Boudrie - (www)

upgurgitate - Blend of "upchuck" and "regurgitate." When you're feeling down, the only way to go is up.

e.g., If you must upgurgitate, please go do it on the lawn.

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

upha - Unimaginative, pointless, humourless, acronymizing.

e.g., The EU just cannot stop upharing its way through FP and JHA.

submitted by William

uphangable - Able to be hung.

e.g., The showerhead is not uphangable.

submitted by Heike

upindicular - Perpindicular to a horizontal normal. Coherently exhibiting the properties of perpindicularity and verticality.

e.g., The flagpole was inserted in an upindicular orientation to assure proper presentation of our nation's symbol.

submitted by Robert Boudrie - (www)

upngonepoofta - Suddenly disappeared.

e.g., I turned around and she'd upngonepoofta, to whence I had no clue.

submitted by ZenRhino - (www)

upper topper flopper stopper - A device worn by women to prevent their breasts from sagging.

e.g., Mary spent all day at Victoria's Secret trying to pick out a decent upper topper flopper stopper.

submitted by Wycco's Dad

uppher - A person who deserts his partner when she reaches a high, usually in money, so he can make off with as much as possible.

e.g., She will die rich, because she always is an uppher.

submitted by Adrian R. Lawler

uppivozlu - Uppity, contentious, quarrelsome, pushy.

e.g., He was an uppivizlu man.

submitted by Cerveau Radioactif

uproo - Opening a crisp packet upside down.

e.g., Uhoh, Walter just pulled an uproo.

submitted by Jonathan Bull

upscalator, downscalator - Up escalator, down escalator.

e.g., Take the upscalator to get to the top floor, the downscalator to get back to the first floor.

submitted by Capucine

upsell - To promote a company's newest or featured product while taking a customer's order.

e.g., When you take a customer's order, be sure to upsell fried oreos.

submitted by Zarthus

upshot-knothole - (interjection) an oath (as in swearing and cursing) which is satisfyingly nasty sounding (from the Upshot-Knothole nuclear-test series between March 17th and June 4th of 1953. Upshot-Knothole Grable is the best-known, although Upshot-Knothole Harry caused the worst fallout of the tests to fall upon those downwind)...maybe it really is a curse.

e.g., "What was that?!" "Some jerk just threw a brick through the window!" "Upshot-knothole!" "Yeah, with fries."

submitted by Scott M. Ellsworth

upside - Slang. On. As in "upside your head."

e.g., I'm gonna hit you upside your head if you say your sister looks ugly again.

submitted by dust

upspeak - A speech pattern common to many Californians and young women in which a declarative statement is made with a "rising intonation" at the end making it sound like a question.

e.g., Andrea certainly has the skills to be a middle manager, but her constant upspeak makes her seem immature and unsure of herself.

submitted by david hanson

upstidian - An upstanding citizen. It was created and used by my friend Patricia 25 years ago in Banff.

e.g., Delicia grew up to be an upstidian, with three daughters, a husband, a house, and her name on the voter's list.

submitted by Cathy Echlin

upstoors - Directly above you. Combination of next-door and upstairs.

e.g., The guy that lives upstoors dances with Dr. Martens on.

submitted by Adam

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