15-letter words starting with u
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- under-education — to educate too little or poorly.
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- under-secretary — UK ministerial position
- under-the-table — transacted in secret or in an underhanded manner.
- undercapitalize — to provide an insufficient amount of capital for (a business enterprise).
- undercompensate — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
- underemployment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- underestimation — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- underhandedness — underhand.
- underinvestment — insufficient investment or laying out of money with the expectation of profit
- underpopulation — having a population lower than is normal or desirable.
- underprivileged — denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- underproduction — production that is less than normal or than is required by the demand.
- underpublicized — lacking publicity
- underresearched — diligent and systematic inquiry or investigation into a subject in order to discover or revise facts, theories, applications, etc.: recent research in medicine.
- understandingly — mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
- undersubscribed — having more places available than the demand for them
- undeservingness — qualified for or having a claim to reward, assistance, etc., because of one's actions, qualities, or situation: the deserving poor; a deserving applicant.
- undisappointing — not disappointing
- undisciplinable — unable to be disciplined or controlled
- undistinguished — having no distinguishing marks or features.
- undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
- unearned income — income received from property, as interest, dividends, or the like.
- unendurableness — the quality or state of being unendurable
- unexceptionable — not offering any basis for exception or objection; beyond criticism: an unexceptionable record of achievement.
- unextraordinary — beyond what is usual, ordinary, regular, or established: extraordinary costs.
- unfair practice — unfair competition.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- ungentlemanlike — unlike a gentleman
- ungrammatically — in an ungrammatical manner
- unidiomatically — in a way that is not idiomatic
- unindoctrinated — to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- uninhibitedness — the state or quality of being uninhibited
- uninstitutional — of, relating to, or established by institution.
- unintentionally — not intentional or deliberate: an unintentional omission from the list.
- uninterestingly — in a way that is not interesting
- unintermittedly — in an unintermitted manner
- uninterpretable — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
- uninterruptedly — in a manner that is not broken, discontinued, or hindered
- union catalogue — a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries
- union territory — one of the 6 administrative territories that, with 28 states, make up the Republic of India
- unit of account — the function of money that enables the user to keep accounts, value transactions, etc
- united brethren — a Protestant denomination, of Wesleyan beliefs and practices, founded in 1800.
- universal chuck — a chuck, as on a lathe headstock, having three stepped jaws moving simultaneously for precise centering of a workpiece of any of a wide range of sizes.
- universal class — (in the theory of classes) the class that includes all other classes and is composed of all individuals composing these classes.