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5-letter words starting with u

  • urawa — a city in E Honshu, in Japan.
  • urban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
  • urbia — cities collectively
  • ureal — Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
  • uredo — a skin irritation; hives; urticaria.
  • ureic — Biochemistry. a compound, CO(NH 2) 2 , occurring in urine and other body fluids as a product of protein metabolism.
  • urena — any tropical plant or shrub belonging to the genus Urena, of the mallow family, having clusters of small, yellow flowers, especially U. lobata, which yields a useful bast fiber.
  • urent — burning
  • urewe — of or relating to an early Iron Age pottery tradition of central Africa beginning in the second half of the first millennium b.c. and associated with the spread of ironworking and possibly cattle raising and the Bantu language.
  • urged — to push or force along; impel with force or vigor: to urge the cause along.
  • urgel — a town in NE Spain, SSW of Andorra: cathedral.
  • urger — a person or thing that urges.
  • uriah — Also, Douay Bible, Urias [yoo-rahy-uh s] /yʊˈraɪ əs/ (Show IPA). Also called Uriah the Hittite. the husband of Bathsheba, and an officer in David's army. II Sam. 11.
  • urial — a wild, bearded sheep, Ovis vignei, of southern Asia, having a reddish coat.
  • uriel — one of the archangels. II Esdras 4.
  • urin- — urino-
  • urine — the liquid-to-semisolid waste matter excreted by the kidneys, in humans being a yellowish, slightly acid, watery fluid.
  • urite — a segment or part of the abdomen in insects
  • urman — a geographical or climatic area of conifer forest
  • urmia — Lake, a salt lake in NW Iran. About 2000 sq. mi. (5180 sq. km).
  • urnal — of or relating to urns
  • ursid — any plantigrade carnivore of the family Ursidae, comprising the spectacled bear, the black, brown, and sun bears, and various extinct species that also gave rise to the giant panda of the family Ailuropodidae.
  • urson — an arboreal New World porcupine, Erethizon dorsatum
  • urubu — a black vulture of S America, Catharista urubu
  • usage — a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice: the usages of the last 50 years.
  • usbeg — Uzbek.
  • usbek — Uzbek.
  • usdaw — (in Britain) Union of Shop, Distributive, and Allied Workers
  • ushas — Dawn, a Vedic deity, daughter of Sky and sister of Night.
  • usher — James, 1581–1656, Irish prelate and scholar.
  • ushki — an archaeological site at Kamchatka, U.S.S.R., revealing a late Pleistocene culture producing bifacial points with affinities to those of western North America.
  • using — to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities.
  • uskub — Turkish name of Skoplje.
  • uskup — Turkish name of Skoplje.
  • usnea — any pale-green or gray, mosslike lichen of the genus Usnea, common on rocks and trees.
  • usphs — United States Public Health Service
  • usque — a friend to the last degree.
  • ustar — Union Student Technical Assistance Resources
  • usual — habitual or customary: her usual skill.
  • usure — to charge interest at a high or illegal rate
  • usurp — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
  • usury — the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest.
  • uteri — the enlarged, muscular, expandable portion of the oviduct in which the fertilized ovum implants and develops or rests during prenatal development; the womb of certain mammals.
  • utf-8 — (character)   (UCS transformation format 8) An ASCII-compatible multibyte Unicode and UCS encoding, used by Java and Plan 9. The Unicode character set occupies a 16-bit code space. The most obvious Unicode encoding (known as UCS-2) consists of a sequence of 16-bit words. Such strings can contain bytes like '\0' or '/' which have a special meaning in filenames and other C library function parameters. In addition, the majority of Unix tools expects ASCII files and can't read 16-bit words as characters without major modifications. For these reasons, UCS-2 is not a suitable external encoding of Unicode in filenames, text files, environment variables, etc. The ISO 10646 Universal Character Set (UCS), a superset of Unicode, occupies a 31-bit code space and the obvious UCS-4 encoding for it (a sequence of 32-bit words) has the same problems. The UTF-8 encoding of Unicode and UCS avoids the problems of fixed-length Unicode encodings because an ASCII file encoded in UTF is exactly same as the original ASCII file and all non-ASCII characters are guaranteed to have the most significant bit set (bit 0x80). This means that normal tools for text searching etc. work as expected. UTF-8 is defined in RFC 2279.
  • uther — king of Britain and father of Arthur.
  • utica — an ancient city on the N coast of Africa, NW of Carthage.
  • utile — useful.
  • utter — to give audible expression to; speak or pronounce: unable to utter her feelings; Words were uttered in my hearing.
  • utzon — Jørn, 1918–2008, Danish architect.
  • uvula — the small, fleshy, conical body projecting downward from the middle of the soft palate.
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