uppercase
— Noun
– English
~ one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
uppercase
— Adjective
– English
~ relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"
uppercut
— Noun
– English
~ a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin)
uppermost
— Adverb
– English
~ in or into the highest position; "the blade turned uppermost"
uppermost
— Adverb
– English
~ in or into the most prominent position, as in the mind; "say what comes uppermost"
uppermost
— Adjective
– English
~ at or nearest to the top; "the uppermost book in the pile"; "on the topmost step"
uppish
— Adjective
– English
~ (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
uppishly
— Adverb
– English
~ in a snobbish manner; "they snobbishly excluded their less wealthy friends from the party"
uppishness
— Noun
– English
~ assumption of airs beyond one's station
uppity
— Adjective
– English
~ presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times
uppityness
— Noun
– English
~ assumption of airs beyond one's station
UPPP
— Noun
– English
~ surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)
uppsala
— Noun
– English
~ a city in east central Sweden to the northwest of Stockholm
upraise
— Verb
– English
~ cause to become alive again; "raise from the dead"; "Slavery is already dead, and cannot be resurrected"; "Upraising ghosts"
upraised
— Adjective
– English
~ held up in the air; "stood with arms upraised"; "her upraised flag"
upright
— Noun
– English
~ a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights"
upright
— Noun
– English
~ a piano with a vertical sounding board
upright piano
— Noun
– English
~ a piano with a vertical sounding board
upright
— Adjective
– English
~ upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"
upright
— Adjective
– English
~ in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post"