Word origins

• unwisdomLack of wisdom; unwise action or conduct; folly, foolishness.
• unwittyWithout wit; foolish; silly.
• unworshipLack of worship or respect; dishonour; failure or refusal to worship; irreverence.
• unworthUnworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
• unyokeTo release something from a yoke or harness.
• up-Used to indicate increase.
• upbearTo hold up; raise aloft; hold or sustain high
• upbearerOne who upbears or upholds.
• upbearingA bearing up; support
• upbendto bend upwards
• upblowTo inflate.
• upbringTo bring up.
• upcastCast up; thrown upward.
• upcomeTo ascend, rise; grow up; come up.
• updrawTo draw up
• upfillTo fill up.
• upfloorAn upper storey, especially a gallery or arcade above the arches of the nave, choir, and transepts of a church.
• upgangThe act of ascending a slope; ascent.
• upgrowingThe process of growth or maturation; growing up
• uphangTo hang up.
• uphaulTo haul upwards.
• upheapTo pile or heap up; accumulate.
• upheapingAscension; addition to full measure, accumulation.
• upheaveTo heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
• uplandishOf or pertaining to uplands; pertaining to or situated in country districts.
• upleapTo leap up; spring up.
• uplookTo look upward.
• uppluckTo pluck up; pull up; deracinate.
• up-pulledPulled up.
• upreachTo reach upward.
• uprearTo raise something up; to rise up; to erect
• uprideto ride up (all senses)
• upristUprising.
• upsendTo send, cast, or throw up; deliver; submit.
• upside downInverted, so that the top is now at the bottom.
• upspringTo spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
• upstandTo stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
• upthrowTo throw or cast upwards.
• up toUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see up, to.
• upturningA turning upward.
• -ureA process; a condition; a result of an action.
• usanceThe length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
• usselfSynonym of ourselves.
• uswardToward us.
• utchyI
• valancedFurnished or ornamented with a valance.
• valianceThe quality of being valiant; heroism, bravery or valour.
• valiantiseThe quality of being valiant; bravery, heroism.
• valiantnessThe property of being valiant.
• valureValue.
• vambraceThe piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
• VangeA suburb in Basildon borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ7287).
• varioleA spherule of a variolite.
• varixA varicose, i.e. swollen and knotted, vein.
• vavasoura subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
• vawardThe vanguard.
• venenosityQuality of being venomous or poisonous.
• venenousVenomous; poisonous.
• VenerianVenusian
• veneryThe hunting of wild animals.
• vengeTo avenge; to punish; to revenge.
• venomositySynonym of venomousness.
• venomouslyIn a venomous manner; with venom.
• ventailSynonym of aventail (“mail curtain or flap, on a helmet or a mail coif, that protects the lower face and neck”).
• ventouseA cupping glass.
• verdourVerdure.
• vergescuThe white shield that was the mark of novice knights, especially in Arthurian legend.
• verjuiceA very acidic juice made by pressing unripe grapes, crab-apples, or other sour fruit.
• versetA very short organ interlude or prelude.
• versicleOne of a series of lines that are shorter than a standard line of verse, particularly in a hymn.
• versifyto make or compose verses
• victriceA female victor; a victress.
• vigilyA vigil.
• vilelyIn a vile manner, evilly, despicably.
• vilipendTo treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.
• villainlyCharacteristic of a villain.
• villeinageThe state of being a villein.
• vinetreeA grapevine.
• vinewMoldiness, mould.
• vinnewedMouldy; (by extension) having some other unwanted or spoiling growth like mould.
• vinneyA traditional blue cheese made in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk.
• vinolentfond of drinking wine, especially to excess
• vintryA place where wine is sold.
• viridGreen, verdant.
• virtuelessLacking virtue or goodness.
• virtuousnessThe state of being virtuous.
• viscountyThe territory administered by a viscount as (notably royal) official
• visgyA pick and hatchet in one tool for tearing down hedges.
• vocableA word or utterance, especially with reference to its form rather than its meaning.
• voiderOne who, or that which, voids, empties, vacates, or annuls.
• voluptuosityvoluptuousness
• volvelleA type of slide chart, a paper construction with rotating parts, formerly used for organization and calculation in astronomy and other subjects.
• wadmalThick coarse heavily napped wool mostly (formerly) used in Scandinavia and parts of Britain in winter clothing for the poor, similar to melton.
• wadsetThe conveyance of land in pledge for a debt; a mortgage.
• wafererA maker of wafers.
• waferyA kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers.
• wafterArmed convoy or escort ship
• waileressA female professional mourner
• walleyedHaving eyes with a pale-coloured iris.
• wallowishTasteless or having an unpleasant taste; nauseous, sickly-sweet.