English words from German
- Twilight of the GodsRagnarok.
- twilight sleepAn amnesic condition characterized by an insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine, especially to relieve the pain of childbirth.
- UbbenA surname from German.
- uber-Super; really; mega-.
- übermanA man of exceptional power over his natural abilities.
- U-boatAny German submarine of the First or Second World War, or any Austro-Hungarian submarine of the First World War.
- UmbaughA surname from German.
- umbworldThe surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.
- UmholtzA surname from German.
- umklappPertaining to the transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
- umpolungThe chemical modification of a functional group with the aim of the reversal of polarity of that group.
- unberufenTouch wood; knock on wood; an injunction to fate that nothing will go wrong.
- UncapherA surname from German.
- underthresholdPositioned below a threshold.
- unheimlichWeird, uncanny.
- unionalPertaining to a union.
- unitary psychosisAccording to 19th-century German psychiatry, a single underlying disease process of which all psychoses were surface variations.
- unkeThe European fire-bellied toad (Bombina bombina).
- unkenTo not know, fail to recognise, be ignorant of.
- unkenreflexA defensive posture adopted by several branches of the amphibian class, including, but not exclusive to, salamanders, toads, and certain species of frogs.
- unsteckeredunprocessed by a plugboard.
- UntergrainauA village in Grainau municipality, Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, Bavaria, Germany.
- unterhefeThe yeast that forms at the bottom of the vat.
- UntermannA surname from German.
- unthingSomething irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.
- UplingerA surname from German.
- Upper BavariaAn administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Munich.
- Upper FranconiaAn administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Bayreuth.
- Upper Franconianone of four main subgroups of the Upper German dialects; spoken in the region of Franconia in northern Bavaria as well as some adjacent parts of Germany
- Upper GermanOne of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the shifts of Proto-Germanic *-pp-, *-mp- to -pf-, -mpf-.
- Upper PalatinateAn administrative region of Bavaria. Seat: Regensburg.
- ur-Forming words with the sense of “proto-, primitive, original”.
- uranismHomosexuality.
- Uranium ClubA German project during World War II to research nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors.
- urbariumA medieval register of the land ownership of an area.
- ur-continentAn original or primordial continent or landmass.
- urdoxaA pre-reflective, original belief; a foundational doxic attitude prior to doubt or affirmation.
- UrfirnisAn ancient style of Greek pottery with a glaze-like paint.
- urgrundbasis, foundation, primary principle, cause, or factor; a primal cause or ultimate cosmic principle
- urheimatThe original homeland of an ethnic group, particularly the speakers of a proto-language; the cradleland.
- urningA homosexual person, especially a man.
- ur-oceanA primordial ocean.
- UrschleimPrimordial soup; the protoplasm from which all life originated, according to a theory of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel.
- ursodeoxycholic acidA bile acid, C₂₄H₄₀O₄, present in human bile at low concentrations and used as a medication for the treatment of various biliary and liver diseases.
- UrspracheA proto-language.
- urstromtalA broad glacial valley formed during an ice age by meltwater flowing roughly parallel to the ice margin.
- useless eaterIn the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring assistance from society but offering nothing in return.
- use valueThe ability of an object (not necessarily a commodity) to satisfy a human need; a utility.
- V-1An early cruise missile, powered by a pulsejet, used by Germany in the Second World War.
- V-2An early long-range liquid-fuel ballistic missile used by Germany during the Second World War.
- VaethA surname from German.
- vagileFree to move about.
- VatterA surname from German.
- verfremdungseffektBrecht's distancing effect.
- VertzA surname from German.
- vesuvinThe pigment Bismark brown when used as a biological stain.
- VettelA surname from German.
- vicariantOf, relating to, or as a result of vicariance
- victor's justiceUnfair judgement in which an entity gives preferential treatment to its own forces over those of a defeated enemy.
- vielbeinA polyad (generalization of vierbein)
- Vienna sausageA kind of smoked link sausage.
- Viennese sausageSynonym of Vienna sausage.
- vierbeinSynonym of tetrad.
- VillwockA surname from German.
- VoeltzA surname from German.
- VoelzA surname from German.
- VogeA surname from German.
- VogelerA surname from German.
- VogelgesangA surname from German.
- VogelpohlA surname from German.
- VogtlandkreisA district of Saxony, Germany.
- VölkerwanderungMigration Period
- völkischPertaining to a German populist, identity-nationalist or ethnonationalist ideology found since the late 19th century.
- volksliedA German folk song.
- volksmarchingA form of non-competitive fitness walking that developed in Europe. Participants typically walk 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) on an outdoor path.
- VolkspolizeiThe national police force of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
- VonbargenA surname from German.
- VonbehrenA surname from German.
- vonceMarijuana; cannabis, especially used as a drug.
- von DanikenA surname from German.
- Von RudenA surname from German.
- Von SeggernA surname from German.
- Von SpreckelsenA surname from German.
- VopoA member of the Volkspolizei.
- vorbeiredenThe condition where a patient answers questions in a way that demonstrates understanding of the question, despite giving a markedly incorrect answer.
- vorlagesA particular style of tight-fitting ski pants.
- vorlauferforerunner, especially a skier who skis a course before competitors in order to establish a standard time
- VorndranA surname from German.
- VorpahlA surname from German.
- VosbergA surname from German.
- wackeA soft, earthy, dark-coloured rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
- Waffen-SSThe combat branch of the Schutzstaffel.
- Waidhofen an der ThayaAn administrative district of Lower Austria, Austria.
- waldfluteA kind of large flue pipe for an organ.
- waldgraveThe head forestkeeper, or nobleman who held some power in forested areas, in the Holy Roman Empire, now Germany.
- waldhornA French horn.
- waldmeisterA herb used (particularly in Germany and central Europe) for flavouring wines and liqueurs, Galium odoratum.
- waldrappAn endangered species of ibis, the northern bald ibis, Geronticus eremita.
- waldzitherA type of stringed instrument, a cittern of German origin, with nine strings in five courses.
- WalkenhorstA surname from German.