Words in english

• follow-up — Noun – English ～ an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
• flare-up — Noun – English ～ a sudden intense happening; "an outburst of heavy rain"; "a burst of lightning"
• change-up — Noun – English ～ a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball
• balls-up — Noun – English ～ something badly botched or muddled
• cut-up — Noun – English ～ someone who plays practical jokes on others
• clouding up — Noun – English ～ the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky
• chin-up — Noun – English ～ an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar
• booze-up — Noun – English ～ revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party
• blowing up — Noun – English ～ a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
• call up — Noun – English ～ an order to report for military duty
• caller-up — Noun – English ～ the person initiating a telephone call; "there were so many callers that he finally disconnected the telephone"
• bringing up — Noun – English ～ helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
• bust-up — Noun – English ～ a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship)
• bust-up takeover — Noun – English ～ a leveraged buyout in which the target company's assets are sold to repay the loan that financed the takeover
• coughing up — Noun – English ～ the act of expelling (food or phlegm) by coughing
• cover-up — Noun – English ～ concealment that attempts to prevent something scandalous from becoming public
• crack-up — Noun – English ～ a mental or physical breakdown
• upanishad — Noun – English ～ a later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions; "the Vedanta philosophy developed from the pantheistic views of the Upanishads"
• upbeat — Noun – English ～ a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous; "the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles"
• upbeat — Noun – English ～ an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)

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