14-Letter Words Starting with U

Law 1. (Law) a principle of inheritance whereby the youngest son succeeds to the estate of his ancestor Compare primogeniture

CIVILIZED civilize

COMPETENT Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

Plural or third person singular

""EFFICIENT Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. as, an efficient officer, power.""

ENERGETIC

""EXCLUSIVE Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.""

Ultrafiltrate

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Ultramarathon

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

MICROTOME An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.

ULTRAMICRO

""MINIATURE Originally, a painting in colors such as those in medi\'91val manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.""

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

""The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism. Gallicanism.""

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

ULTRAREALIST

Ultrarightist

Ultraroyalist

""SENSITIVE Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. as, a sensitive soul.""

ULTRASONIC

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Ultraviolence

Umbrageous

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

ALTERABILITY The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

""APPRECIATION A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.""

Not recognising the merits of something

""APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

""Inflected form of UNAPPROACHABLE Inflected form of APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

Inflected form of BUREAUCRATIC Inflected form of BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

COMPREHENDED comprehend

Not willing to make concessions

Not likely to bend

Obstinate bunch come both unprotected and hopeful

""COMPUTERIZED stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Unconformity

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

""CONTEMPORARY Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.""

CONTRADICTED contradict

Not open to regulation

Inflected form of CONTROLLABLY Inflected form of CONTROLE registered

Not confirmed by evidence

CREDENTIALED credential

CRYSTALLIZED smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

""DECIPHERABLE Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

Underachiever

ACHIEVING achieve

Undercarriage

Underclothing

(Of a country) not economically advanced

Like dark pictures of the Third World

Like a picture that comes out badly scrawny

""EMPHASIZE To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase. as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.""

Judged badly, but not excessively

Made approximation that wasn't highly inaccurate

Two continental articles calculated at less than current price

Underestimate

Underexposure

Guard sauntered around with students

Students sauntered around having swallowed a drug naughtily

GROUNDERS grounder

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

Hungry? Rescheduled dinner hour's due

""NUTRITION In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.""

Underpainting

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

Ministry high-up

Office junior for leading civil servant

Government official needing to sort out nerdy creatures

Understaffing

Able to be got (wordplay)

Able to be comprehended

Can be appreciated that it is reasonable

""UNDERSTAND To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.""

STANDINGS standing

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

Understrapper

Underthrust

UTILIZING utilize

Run a novel audit producing assessment that's too low

DESIRABILITY The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

Not determinable; indeterminable.

""DISCOVERABLE Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

DRAMATICALLY In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

Not showing initiative

Unflattering

Personal hostility

Unfruitful

Ungenerosity

Ungracious

Ungrateful

Unhysterical

Moving or operating in one direction only: a unidirectional microphone.

""Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.""

INCORPORATED United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.

""INGRATIATING capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.""

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

Universality

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

MANNERLINESS The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

Unprepared

Not of the expected standard of work

One is not paid for such conduct

The amateur plainness of our production

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMABLE Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

Not possible to acknowledge unusually big nuclear zone

RECOGNIZABLY

""RECONCILABLE Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.""

Inflected form of REFRIGERATED Inflected form of REFRIGERATE To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

Unregenerate

Unreserved

Unresponsive

In a non-limiting manner

Unromantical

Inflected form of ROMANTICIZED Inflected form of ROMANTICIZE

Lousy and ill-fitting caftan? It's yours

Not good enough

Works holding up faulty units as not good enough

How chiselers behave

How double-dealers deal

""Inflected form of STANDARDIZED Inflected form of STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Unsurprising

Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZED Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Untowardness

""TRANSLATABLE Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.""

Untruthful

Unworthiness

The act or an instance of upgrading.

Very funny behaviour

High jinks

Is our pub's reason for disorder showing no end of hubbub this (wordplay)

Uprootedness

URBANISTIC

Urediniospore

Usufructuary

Usuriousness

Philosophical doctrine

Millian reason

Uxoriousness