English words starting with ur

Meanings of Ur:

combining form

Primitive, original, or earliest.

Usage examples:

Urtext

abbreviation

You are or your.

Usage examples:

Thank you for ur lovely review!

proper noun

An ancient sumerian city formerly on the river euphrates, in southern iraq. it was one of the oldest cities of mesopotamia, dating from the 4th millennium bc, and reached its zenith in the late 3rd millennium bc.

Meanings of Uracil:

noun

A compound found in living tissue as a constituent base of rna. in dna it is replaced by thymine.

Usage examples:

Thymine, present in dna, and uracil, present in rna, also contribute to this band.

Meanings of Uracils:

noun

A compound found in living tissue as a constituent base of rna. in dna it is replaced by thymine.

Usage examples:

Thymine, present in dna, and uracil, present in rna, also contribute to this band.

Meanings of Uraei:

noun

A representation of a sacred serpent as an emblem of supreme power, worn on the headdresses of ancient egyptian deities and sovereigns.

Usage examples:

On the forehead of the mask are a royal uraeus and a vulture's head, symbols of the two tutelary de…

Meanings of Uraemia:

noun

A raised level in the blood of urea and other nitrogenous waste compounds that are normally eliminated by the kidneys.

Usage examples:

Did he have diabetes, ascites, uraemia, anasarca, or heart failure?

Meanings of Uralic:

adjective

Relating to or denoting a family of languages spoken from northern scandinavia to western siberia, comprising the finno-ugric and samoyedic groups.

Usage examples:

In contrast, the saami, finns, and estonians speak languages belonging to the uralic family, otherw…

noun

The uralic languages collectively.

Usage examples:

The evidence for indo-european, uralic, austronesian and so on is overwhelming, and there is no rea…

Meanings of Uramil:

noun

A crystalline compound obtained by hydrolysing alloxantin, murexide, and some related compounds.

Meanings of Uranalyses:

noun

Urinalysis.

Meanings of Uranalysis:

noun

Urinalysis.

Meanings of Uranate:

noun

A salt containing oxyanions of uranium.

Meanings of Urania:

proper noun

The muse of astronomy.

Meanings of Uranian:

adjective

Relating to the planet uranus.

Usage examples:

Uranian moons are traditionally given shakespearean names

noun

(in science fiction) an imagined inhabitant of uranus.

Meanings of Uranicentric:

adjective

Having the planet uranus as the centre; determined with reference to the centre of uranus.

Meanings of Uraniid:

adjective

Of or relating to the family uraniidae of tropical moths, many of which are large, brightly coloured, and diurnal.

noun

A moth of the family uraniidae.

Meanings of Uraninite:

noun

A black, grey, or brown mineral which consists mainly of uranium dioxide and is the chief ore of uranium.

Usage examples:

Arsenopyrite, cassiterite, molybdenite, wolframite, uraninite, and several of the common sulfides h…

Meanings of Uranism:

noun

(male) homosexuality.

Meanings of Uranisms:

noun

(male) homosexuality.

Meanings of Uranist:

noun

A person who advocated the literary merits of the sonnet à uranie by v. de voiture (1597–1648) over those of a sonnet on job by i. de benserade (1613–91), in a dispute which divided the french literary world in the mid 17th century.

Meanings of Uranite:

noun

Any of various minerals or ores containing uranium; (in later use) specifically any of a group of minerals which are phosphates and arsenates of uranium (in the form of the cation uranyl) and another metal.

Meanings of Uranites:

noun

Any of various minerals or ores containing uranium; (in later use) specifically any of a group of minerals which are phosphates and arsenates of uranium (in the form of the cation uranyl) and another metal.

Meanings of Uranium:

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 92, a dense grey radioactive metal used as a fuel in nuclear reactors.

Usage examples:

It is not possible, however, to construct weapons directly out of uranium or slightly enriched uran…

Meanings of Uranocircite:

noun

A bright yellow-green mineral typically occurring as thin, tabular crystals.

Meanings of Uranographical:

adjective

Uranographic.

Meanings of Uranography:

noun

The branch of astronomy concerned with describing and mapping the stars.

Usage examples:

Their works covered the range of cosmography, uranography, hydrography, chorogreaphy and topography.

Meanings of Uranolite:

noun

A meteorite.