6-letter words starting with up
- upmake — to make up for (something lacking)
- upmost — uppermost.
- uppile — to pile up
- upping — to, toward, or in a more elevated position: to climb up to the top of a ladder.
- uppish — arrogant; condescending; uppity.
- uppity — affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.
- upprop — to support or prop up
- uprate — to raise in rate, power, size, classification, etc.; upgrade: to uprate a rocket engine.
- uprear — to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied.
- uprest — an uprising
- uprise — to rise up; get up, as from a lying or sitting posture.
- uproar — a state of violent and noisy disturbance, as of a multitude; turmoil.
- uproll — to roll up
- uproot — to pull out by or as if by the roots: The hurricane uprooted many trees and telephone poles.
- uprose — simple past tense of uprise.
- uprush — an upward rush, as of water or air.
- upsala — Uppsala.
- upsend — to send or cast upwards
- upshot — the final issue, the conclusion, or the result: The upshot of the disagreement was a new bylaw.
- upside — the upper side or part.
- upsize — to increase the operating costs of (a company) by increasing the number of people it employs
- upsoar — to soar upwards
- upspin — a sudden, upward, spiraling movement, trend, etc.: another upspin in construction costs.
- upstay — to support or sustain
- upstep — the phenomenon of one tone becoming higher than another in certain words of tonal languages
- upstir — a commotion or disturbance
- upsway — to swing upwards in the air
- uptake — apprehension; understanding or comprehension; mental grasp: quick on the uptake.
- uptalk — a rise in pitch at the end usually of a declarative sentence, especially if habitual: often represented in writing by a question mark as in Hi, I'm here to read the meter?
- uptear — to wrench or tear out by or as if by the roots or foundations; destroy.
- uptick — a rise or improvement in business activity, in mood, etc.
- uptilt — to tilt up.
- uptime — the time during which a machine or piece of equipment, as a computer, is operating or can be operated.
- uptorn — past participle of uptear.
- uptoss — to throw or toss upwards
- uptown — to, toward, or in the upper part of a town or city: He rode uptown on the bus.
- upturn — to turn up or over: The farmer upturned clumps of sod with his spade.
- upvote — such a favorable vote: One of my posts is getting lots of upvotes.
- upwaft — to waft upwards
- upward — toward a higher place or position: The birds flew upward.
- upwarp — a geologic structure, usually of relatively large dimensions, whose flanks slope gradually away from the center.
- upwell — to well up, as water from a spring.
- upwind — toward or against the wind or the direction from which it is blowing: The hunters stalked upwind.
- upwrap — a fold with downward sloping layers; an anticline