| understaffed |
having too few workers. |
| understand |
to perceive the meaning, nature, or significance of. [9 definitions] |
| understandable |
able to be understood; comprehensible. [2 definitions] |
| understanding |
the intellectual process of getting the meaning of something; comprehension. [9 definitions] |
| understate |
to state or represent incompletely or too conservatively. [2 definitions] |
| understood |
past tense and past participle of understand. [3 definitions] |
| understudy |
to learn the role or function of so as to be able to substitute for (usu. an actor in a play). [3 definitions] |
| undersurface |
an underside. |
| undertake |
to take on (a task, project, challenge or the like); decide or start to do. [2 definitions] |
| undertaker |
one who undertakes something. [2 definitions] |
| undertaking |
the act of one who undertakes. [3 definitions] |
| under the circumstances |
given the facts as they are. |
| under-the-counter |
secret or illegal, as sales or payments; under-the-table. |
| under the counter |
secretively, esp. in order to evade the law. |
| under the hammer |
offered for sale at public auction. |
| under the lee |
the quarter toward which the sea wind is blowing; to leeward. |
| under the sun |
in existence; in the world; on earth. |
| under-the-table |
of a transaction, done secretly and usu. illegally; under-the-counter. |
| under the weather |
(informal) somewhat ill or in low spirits. |
| underthings |
underclothes. |
| undertone |
a low or subdued sound, esp. of the voice. [3 definitions] |