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UBEROUS :  adj  rich amd plentiful, productive, bountiful

. . . as uberous flow of tea splashed down smoothly. . . .

--Theroux, Three Wogs, p. 131.

UGGR :  noun  fear, dread. See BLAEDSIAN

UMBRA :  noun  shade or shadow. UMBRAGEOUS, adj.. UMBRAE, plural noun. See also PLUMBACEOUS

Walls of tree trunks writhed in arm-thick creepers. Lianas drooping snakily above. Flare of parrot feathers against a monkeyed umbra of twined branches.

--Koster, Mandragon, p. 70.

Tilled fields jostling with deep umbrageous forests. . . .

--Boyle, Water Music, p. 336.

UNCHIES :  noun  a woman's breasts. Compare MAMMETS

The rat plummeted head first into the scoop neck of her dress and lodged between her plump and heaving unchies, hind feet fluttering, tail swishing back and forth like a runaway metronome across her screaming mouth.

--Koster, Mandragon, p. 109.

UNCONSTELLATED :  adj  1) not considered as part of a constellation; 2) not under influence of an astrological sign or house. See CONSTATATION

UNCTION :  noun  the act of anointing, smearing with oil

. . . but when your frantic member casts about for a rubbing-place, and the unction of a little mucous membrane. . . .

--Beckett, Molloy, p. 74.

UNCTUOUS :  adj  oily, greasy. UNCTUOUSLY, adv. See also VELLEITY

Never, not even in the time of Dom Francisco, had Ouidah witness so unctuous a feast.
Pigs' heads were anointed with gumbos and ginger.

--Chatwin, Viceroy of Ouidah, p. 20.

Somewhere out of sight someone was being slowly, unctuously sick.

--Durrell, Justine, p. 56.

UNGULATE :  adj  referring to a hooved animal; hence, bovine. Compare BOANTHROP, VACCINE, VITULINE

But then, from the rear of the crowd, all the long way down the far end of the bar, came the low moan of ungulate distress. "Carrrrry, ohhhh baby, what have I done to you?"

--Boyle, "John Barleycorn,"
The Descent of Man, p. 208.

UNMOBLED :  adj  uncovered, unmuffled

First Player:     But who, Ah, woe! had seen the mobled queen. . . .?

--Shakespeare, Hamlet, II, ii, 525.

It's Reg Prinz's played-out-prize perversely I would prong: the Bea you have become: unmobled quean† of bedroom, bar, B movie.

--Barth, Letters, p. 333.

UNPALTERINGLY :  adv.  without equivocation, without deception. See EXOLETE

UPANISHAD :  noun  Indian philosophical treatises dealing with universal questions; also, see quotation

Upanishad of a worrier. "Upanishad" means "secret session."

--West, Gala, p. 136.

URSINE :  adj.  having to do with bears. See LUPINE.

URTICATION :  noun  flogging, whipping.

"The humility," murmured the janizary, "of a love too great for skivvying and too real to need the tonic of urtication."

--Beckett, "A Wet Night,"
More Pricks than Kicks, p. 57.