List of Old English Words in the OED/UND

Old English	n	Modern English
Undark	vb	To undark or lighten the shadows of night.
Undark	adj	A light or lightish at night. 2. of complexion: light.
Undarkened	adj	Undarkened by doubt; not darkened, lightened.
Undawned	adj	Not yet dawned. 2. undawned east; the light quickens in the undawned east. 3. gloomly, as in an undawned morning.
Undawning	adj	Not yet dawn; just before the dawn; pre-dawn.
Undead	adj	Not dead; not quite alive, but not fully alive. 2. dead-and-alive, as in vampirism; clinically dead, but not at rest.
Undeadliness	n	Immortality.
Undeadly	adj	Not subject to death; immortal not causing death, not mortal.
Undeaf	vb	To banish deafness: "Medical Science is on the threshold to undeaf those without hearing." 2. able to hear, but refusing to listen.
Undealt	adj	Undivided; not dealt with.
Undear	adj	Of little value or estimation, worthless, cheap. 2. not dear; not regarded with affection.
Undeath-like	adj	Evoking a undeath-like or somewhat life-like image(s) within the mind. 2. a vivid undeathly description. 3. a natural depiction or reprentation of an undeathlike state. 4. a life-like or undeath-like being. 5. resembling death; giving an accurate representation of an undeath.
Undeath-likeness	n	The state giving or showing n accarate description of undeathness or life.
Undeathliness	n	Immortality
Undeathly	adv	Immortal.
Undeed	vb	Unable or unwilling to do.
Undeedy	adj	Helpless, incapable, unable to do, impotent
Undeemed	adj	Not judged or condemned; uncensored. 2. unsuspected; unimagined.
Undeep	adj	Shallow, shoalish, unprofound.
Undelve	vb	To not yet have dug up; unexcavated. 2. to not yet have investigated or researched. 3. exhume; as in "undelve the bodies of dead men."
Undelved	adj	Not yet dug up or harvested. 2. not looked into deeply or thoroughly.
Under	adv	Notion of "subordination" was present in Old English. Also used in Old English as a preposition meaning "between, among," as still in under these circumstances, etc. (though this may be an entirely separate root; see understand). Productive as a prefix in Old English, as in German and Scandinavian. "Under the table" is "very drunk," also sense is "illegal." to get something under (one's) belt is from 1954; to keep something under (one's) hat "secret" is from 1885; to have something under (one's) nose "in plain sight" is from 1540s; to speak under (one's) breath "in a low voice" is attested from 1832. To be under (someone's) thumb "entirely controlled" is recorded from 1754.
Under	n	A state of lowness or inferiority. 2. an undervalue or valuation.
Under	vb	To cast down, depress.
Under	phr	"Come Under" - fall under; be grouped with.
Under	phr	"Go Under" - to fail or collapse, as a business venture.
Under	phr	"Keep Under One's Hat" - keep in confidence, secret.
Under	phr	"Knuckle Under" - to give in completely.
Under	phr	"Take Under One's Wing" - guide, protect somebody.
Under	phr	"Under a Cloud" - to be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor. 2. overshadowed by reproach or distrust.
Under	phr	"Under Arms" - mobilized for active service.
Under	phr	"Under Fire"- exposed to an enemy fire; taking part in a battle or general engagement.
Under	phr	"Under Foot" - on the ground; on the surface where one walks.
Under	phr	"Under Hatches" - below deck.
Under	phr	"Under Night" - during the night; by night.
Under	phr	"Under One's Arms" - between the arms and body.
Under	phr	"Under One's Belt" - of food: eaten. 2. securely acquired.
Under	phr	"Under One's Breath" - in a low voice; very softly spoken.
Under	phr	"Under One"- united, conjointly, together, at one time.
Under	phr	"Under One's Nose" - in plain sight; in full view of somebody, or defiantly in somebody's prescence. 2. very close at hand.
Under	phr	"Under One's Own Name" - using one's own name to claim or accept, identify, ownership, credit, responsibility.
Under	phr	"Under Ones Own Steam" - by efforts or means of one's own; without help from anybody else.
Under	phr	"Under Someone's Thumb" - entirely controlled.
Under	phr	"Under the Hammer" - to be put put for sale under the auctioneer's hammer. 2. to be put pressure to achieve a quick and successful result
Under	phr	"Under them All" - altogether, denoting inclusion in a group, category, class
Under	phr	"Under the Rose" - sub rosa: in secrecy or confidence.
Under	phr	"Under the Sun" - anywhere in the world.
Under	phr	"Under the Table" - drunk, intoxicated, blotto.
Under	phr	"Under the Thumb" - dominated entirely by someone.
Under	phr	"Under the Weather" - unwell, esp. as the result of too much drinking.
Under	phr	"Under the Yoke" - in subjection.
Under	phr	"Under Water" - in and covered by water.
Under	phr	"Under way" - to make a start; in progress, to make progress.
Underarm	n	The armpit.
Underarm	adj	Pertaining to the armpit.
Underbear	vb	To sustain, suffer, endure. 2. to sustain, support, bear or hold up. 3. to introduce. 4. to trim around the lower part.
Underbearer	n	One who assists in the carrying of a coffin at a funeral.
Underbearing	adj	Sustaining, enduring, suffering, supporting, bearing-up.
Underbearing	adj	Unassuming.
Underbeing	n	A human,a mortal, as opposed to or compared with a god or a divine being.
Underbeit	vb	To work
Underbelly	n	The lower region of the belly. 2. any similar unprotected part; the soft underbelly of Europe. 3. to have a soft underbelly: to have a weakness which can be exploited.
Underbelly	phr	"Have a Soft Underbelly" - to have a weakness which can be exploited.
Underbid	vb	Make a lower bid atan auction. 2. an instance of underbidding.
Underbidder	n	The person who makes the bid next below the highest. 2. one who makes the last bid before the final bid is accepted by the auctioneer.
Underbind	vb	To bind by a fastening placed beneath; also to bind down, keep down firmly.
Underbit	n	An earmark to indicate ownership, made on the ear of cattle; fig. to earmark.
Underbit	n	The projection of the lower jaw of the lower incisors beyond the upper jaw.
Underbitten	adj	Earmarked in a special manner. 2. earmarked.
Underboard	adv	Under the table; under-deck. 2. in an underhand or secret manner; clandestinely; secretly, not honestly or openly.
Underbody	n	The lower part of a woman's dress; bodice. 2. undergarment or undershirt. 3. the underside of an aniamal's body. 4. the part of a ship's hull which is below the water line. 5.under part of the body of a vehicle; frequently attributed to rust protection.
Underborn	adj	Born with insufficient development.
Underbright	adj	The strong light which often appears below clouds near the horizon.
Underbough	n	Lower boughs or branches of a tree.
Underbreath	n	Subdued or hidden beneath the breath.
Underbreathe	n	A low subdued tone; a whisper.
Underbreathing	n	Whispering; speech in a low or hushed tone.
Underbred	adj	Of inferior breeding or upbringing; wanting in polish or refinement; in manner vulgar. 2. of animals: not pure bred; of inferior strain; not thorough-bred.
Underbring	adj	To bring in surreptitiously. 2. to bring into subjection or subjugation.
Underbring-ness	n	The act or action of bringing someone or something in surreptitiously. 2. the action of bringing someone into subjection or subjugation.
Underbuild	vb	To build under, as a means of strengthening or supporting; to underpin.
Underbuy	vb	To buy for a price lower than the real value.
Undercart	n	THe under-carriage of an aircraft.
Underclad	adj	Insufficiently clad or clothed
Underclay	n	A layer of clay underlying a coal seam, often containing the roots of of ancient coal-forming plants; also called seat-stone.
Undercliff	n	A terrace or lower cliff formed by a landslip or debris.
Underclothed	adj	Insufficiently clothed.
Underclothing	n	Clothing (underclothes) worn below the upper or outer garment; esp. next to the skin.
Undercook	vb	Insufficiently done. 2. not cooked to the full.
Undercraft	n	Hidden or secret craft or cunning. 2. a sly, underhanded trick belonging to inferior crafts.
Undercreep	vb	To creep in (stealthily). 2. to creep in from underside or beneath. 3. to subvert secretly; to do by craftiness or stealth; to undersell in trade. 4. to evade or escape.
Undercreepings	n	The act of creeping about stealthily. 2. evasion, escape. 3. subversion, craftiness, stealth.
Undercroft	n	A crypt of a church; an underground vault. 2. a subterranean chamber, vault or passage.
Undercumstand	vb	To understand.
Under-dark	adj	Somewhat dark; darkish.
Underdeal	n	Discomfiture.
Under-dealer	n	An underhand or dishonest agent or dealer.
Under-dealings	n	Underhand or secretive action (usu. dishonest).
Underdelve	vb	To dig under, undermine.
Underdelving	n	The act of digging under something; to undermine.
Underdo	vb	To refrain from all action. 2. to do less than is requisite or necessary. 3. to do or deal with insufficiently or imperfectly. 4. to cook insufficiently.
Undoer	n	One who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly.
Underdog	n	The dog that's losing, has lost, or is at a disadvantage in a dogfight. 2. the weaker or worst person. 3. anyone in a position of inferiority. 4. object of sympathy (the antonym of underdog effect is 'bandwagon effect')
Underdone	vb	Of meat: under-cooked; left slightly raw after cooking.
Underdrain	vb	To dig a deep ditch for drainage purpose.
Underdraw	vb	To mark by lines drawn underneath. 2. to represent or depict inadequately or with ineffective detail. 3. to withdraw from a bank account so as to leave a reserve.
Under-earth	n	Earth, soil beneath the surface.
Underearth	adj	Subteranean, underground.
Under-eaten	adj	Eroded, consumed or eaten away from beneath or below.
Underer	n	An inferior, minion; one of lower rank.
Underfall	n	A foot-hill slope.
Underfed	adj	Insufficiently fed or ill-nourished.
Underfeed	vb	To feed insufficiently; to stint in food. 2. to feed in fuel from below.
Underfeel	vb	To examine, pry into quietly or secretly.
Underfeeling	n	Feeling subdued, repressed or hidden.
Underfelt	n	Felt laid under the carpet to minimise wear and tear.
Underfiend	n	One of the fiends from under the earth or hell. 2. devilish or evil being; Satan, Lucifer, Old Sooty.
Underfind	vb	To perceive, understand.
Underfill	vb	To fill below the required level.
Underfind	vb	To perceive, understand.
Underfired	adj	Insufficiently baked, (as pottery or cakes).
Under-fives	n	Children under five years of age collectively.
Underfloor	n	Situated or operating under the floor.
Underflow	n	Undercurrent (also fig.) 2. a flow beneath.
Underflow	vb	To flow beneath the surface or underground. 2. an undercurrent.
Underfo	vb	To receive a thing; to have something given to one; to come to have or possess. 2. to receive willingly; to accept. 3. to take in hand; to undertake. 4. to admit into a receptacle; to conceive. 5. to receive a person; to admit to one's presence, society or friendship; to accept. 6. to receive at baptism. 7. to receive by way of hurt or harm; to undergo, suffer. 8. to reprove, rebuke.
Underfold	vb	To wrap up, hide, conceal.
Underfong	vb	To seduce, entrap. 2. to surround, enclose. 3. to comprehend, conceive.
Underfonging	n	The act of seducing, entrapping. 2. surrounding, enclosing. 3. comprehension, conception.
Underfoot	n	The surface of the ground at the foot of a tree.
Underfoot	vb	To strengthen the foundations of a wall.
Underfoot	adv	Beneath the feet; lying under the foot down on the ground, immediately below; in the way. 2. by virtue of one's great power to treat a person's rights with contempt and not to give them proper consideration.
Underfoot	adj	Interior, abject, low, downtrodden. 2. below the real or rent value. 3. quietly, secretly. 4. of persons: about one's foot (irritatingly) 5. present.
Underfooting	n	Ground underfoot; esp, with regard to its condition.
Underframe	n	Substructure, eso. of vehicles
Underfurrow	vb	To plough in, as manure.
Undergang	vb	To commence a journey or an undertaking. See "Undergo & "Undergoing"
Under-get	vb	To catch up with; overtake.
Undergird	vb	To secure or fasten from the underside. 2. to bind underneath; to gird around the bottom, as a ship.
Underglow	n	A glow beneath the surface of .
Undergo	vb	To work under, so as to impair or destroy; to undermine. 2. to deceive, get the better of. 3. to get under; search below. 4. to submit to (to do something.) 5. accept, admit, allow. 6. to be subject to, serve, 7. to go or pass under. 8. to sink below one's sight. 9. to occupy oneself with; to investigate; to get knowledge of. 10. to bear up, endure, sustain; suffer through (pain, danger, suffering) 11. to bear, sustain a burden. 12. to subject or submit oneself to examination, inspection. 13 to go under experiences; to have imposed on or to experience; pass through a change or alteration. 14. to partake or enjoy. 15. to expose oneself to (risk). 16. to take in hand, to undertake.
Under-god	n	Demi-god, minor deity.
Undergoing	n	An ordeal, enduration, suffering. 2. an undertaking, experience, burden.
Undergore	n	Blood shed and clotted under a wound.
Underground	n	That which is beneath the surface of the ground, as a passage or space. 2. a railway operated in a system of tunnels beneath the ground. 3. a group secretly organised to resist or oppose those in control of a government or country. 4. an avant-garde movement in art, cinema, journalism; etc. generally considered to be in opposition to conventional culture or society and whose works are usually experimental, erotic or radical in style, content or purpose, used with the underground.
Underground	adj	Situated, done or operated beneath the surface of the ground. 2. clandestinely, done in secret.
Underground	adv	Beneath or below the surface of the ground or earth, as in: to work underground
Underground	phr	"Go Underground" - go into hiding.
Undergrowing	adj	Arising, occurring, growing up from underneath; growing beneath trees.
Undergrown	adj	Insufficiently developed. 2. not fully grown; undersized.
Undergrowth	n	A growth of smaller plants, shrubs among larger plants; specifically, a thicket or coppice in or as in a forest. 2. condition of being undergrown. 3. a close growth of hair beneath and finer than the outer growth of a pelt.
Underhand	adj	Done or acting in a treacherously secret way; unfair, sly.
Under-handed	adj	Clandestinely carried on; secretly. 2. underhanded or short of staff.
Under-handedily	adv	Slily, slying; clandestinely
Under-handed-ness	n	The quality or characteristic of acting in a treacherously secret way; unfairness, slyness.
Underhead	n	Subordinate official, a person of inferior intellect.
Under-heaven	n	A place or places beneath heaven, such as Earth.
Underhew	vb	To undercut in various senses; to undermine. 2. to hew a log of timber so that it appears of greater cubic content than it really is.
Underhill	n	A low hill, as opposed to 'high-hill: a mountain".
Underhole	vb	To undermine; to undercut.
Underhung	n	Projecting from beneath, as a lower jaw; said of persons. dogs etc. with a jaw protruding beyond the upper jaw. 2. underslung; protrusion.
Underkeep	vb	To keep under or in subjection; to subjugate.
Underkeeper	n	A subordinate custodian or keeper.
Underkind	n	A subspecies; an inferior or lower kind.
Underking	n	A substitute king or regent.
Underkingdom	n	The realm of a underking or regent.
Underlaid	vb	To be laid or placed below or beneath.
Underlay	n	A prop, support, an insertion to make one part or the surface level.
Underlet	vb	To let at an amount or rental below the true or full value. 2. sub-let.
Underlid	n	The lower lid of the eye.
Underlie	vb	To lie below or under. 2. to be the ground or support of: the principle that underlies a scheme. 3.to constitute a first or prior claim or lien over. 4. to be answerable, subject, liable to.
Under-life	n	Life existing beneath the surface or at a lower level.
Under-line	n	A line drawn underneath (esp. under written matter) underscore.
Underline	vb	To give extra weight to (a communication); underscore, emphasize.2. draw a line or lines underneath to call attention to. 3. to mark a line below, as words; to underscore. 4. to influence secretly. [Obs.] 5. to emphasize or call attention to; highlight.
Underlinen	n	Underclothing.
Underling	n	A subordinate.
Underlip	n	The lower lip of of a person, animal or insect.
Underlive	vb	To live in a manner unworthy of oneself.
Underlook	n	A covert look or glance.
Underlooker	n	An inspector of underground workings, as of a mine.
Underlord	adj	Subservient, subject, submissive.
Underlout	vb	To be subject to; to submit, to make subject.
Underly	adj	Subordinate, inferior, low; in a low state of health at a lower level.
Underlying	adj	Lying under; hence, fig. fundamental, as in underlying thought.
Underlyingly	adv	In a manner fundamental; unlyingly good and honest.
Underman	n	An inferior or subordinate. 2. a person with sub-human attributes.
Undermanned	adj	Short-handed; under-staffed; not furnished with insufficient number of man.
Under-manning	n	The state or condition of be short in the number of staff or workers provided to carry out the reqired or requisite duties.
Undermatch	n	One who is no match for another; an inferior rival or opponent.
Undermatch	vb	To undervalue by comparison. 2. to unite or bestow in marriage below the proper rank or condition.
Undermatched	adj	Not equal to another; inferior.
Undermath	n	An undermath of grass.
Undermeal	n	The time of undern; in later use the early part of afternoon. 2. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. an afternoon meal.
Undermeaning	n	"Have you considered the deep undermeaning that there lies. 2. connotation; ramification; esoterica.
Undermine	vb	To excavate beneath, dig a mine or passage under, 2. to weaken by wearing away at the base. 3. to weaken or impair secretly or by degrees, as in to weaken and undermine the health or reputation of someone. 4. to enfeeble, impair, sap, unnerve. 5. to injure another person's reputation and influence by unfair and secret tactics. 6. to sabotage something.
Undermining	n	The action or act of weakening or impairing the efforts, plans, projects or physical health of someone.
Undermost	adj	Holding in or having the lowest place, rank or position. 2. the bottom
Undern	n	Midday; noon. 2. afternoon; esp. a light meal taken in the afternoon. 3. an afternoon nap or siesta. 3. undern-tide or undertime.
Undern	adj	Not hidden; secret; open; not concealed; unesoteric. 2. undark, undrear, undire.
Underneath	adv	On the lower or downward side; on the underside of. 2. under or below an object or a surface; at a lower place or level; directly beneath; as "a house with a good foundation underneath" 3. beneath; below; in a lower place; under; as, a channel underneath the soil.
Underneath	prep	Under; beneath; below.
Underneath	n	Bed, bedrock, belly, bottom, bottom side, buttocks, downside, fundament, lower side, lowest layer, neath, nether side, nethermost level, sole, substratum, underbelly, undercover, underlayer, underside
Underness	n	The state or condition of being below a given mark or line.
Undernim	vb	To make in mind or sense. 2. to understand, comprehend, perceive, feel. 3. to receive by instruction; to learn. 4. to take upon oneself; undertake; to travel; take a journey. 5. to reprove, rebuke; to convict oneself. 6. to catch unawares; or take secretly by surprise. 7. to take away by stealth. 8. to receive into one's hands or charge.
Undernimmer	n	A supporter or one who takes up something; one who reproves or rebukes.
Undernimmy	adj	The action of reproving or rebuking; a reproof or rebuke.
Underorn	vb	Subborn. 2. to procure by underhand or unlawful means.
Underpin	vb	Support from below with masonry. 2. support; strengthen, prop up with timber, stone, etc.
Underplay	vb	To act (a role) with great restraint; underact; to hold something in reserve. 2. play a card lower than (a held high card) in the hope of a future advantage. 3. to play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
Underplay	n	The act of underplaying.
Underput	n	A mistress.
Underput	vb	To put one thing under another; to place or set beneath. 2. to furnish with something placed under, esp. as a support. 3. to put under the power or control of ; to place in subjection; to subject. 4. to lower the voice. 5. to put or take fraudently. 5. to substitute.
Underputting	n	The act or action of putting one thing under another; to place under as a support. 2.action of the putting under the control of. 3. substituting.
Underputter	n	A pimp; a pander.
Under-read	vb	To stretch below. 2. to trap or defraud by stealth. 3. show a reading lower than the true one. 4. of the reading public reading with less frequency.
Underreckon	n	To reckon too low; to underestimate.
Under-ripe	adj	Immature; not quite ripe.
Under-run	n	An undercurrent.
Under-run	vb	To run flow, or pass beneath. 2. to overhaul or examine. 3. of a broadcast, item, program etc; that runs for less than the allotted time. 4. to examine, as a rope, by passing it through the hands.
Under-runner	n	A subterranean stream, river, waterway.
Under-running	n	The extent to which a project or program runs behind its scheduled completion date. 2. a delay; a fall behind. 3.
Unders	n	Underwear, underclothing, undies.
Undersay	vb	To say by way of answer.
Underscore	n	A line drawn below a word in order to emphasis. 2. to underline for emphasis.
Underscore	vb	To draw a line below or underline, as to indicate emphasis; to emphasize something.
Underscoring	n	The act of drawing a line below or beneath a word or words for emphasising.
Undersea	adj	Existing, carried on, or adapted for use beneath the surface of the sea; as an undersea oil well.
Underseek	vb	To search into, examine, investigate; seek out.
Undersell	vb	To sell acoomodity at a lower price than an other. 2. to cut by selling goods or services at a lower price.
Underselling	n	The practice of selling (or undercutting) cheaper than one's competitors.
Underset	vb	To support and strengthen by means of something, such as a post or prop, placed beneath; to prop up. 2. to serve as a support. 3. to act upon, furnish, fasten with something placed beneath. 4. to support, sustain or strengthen. 5. to set or place a thing under something else. 6. to place in subject. 7. to beset, besiege, surround.
Undersetting	n	Something set or built as a support; a pedestal.
Undersettle	vb	To occupy a house (or part of one)held by another; to sub-tenant; to undersit.
Undershaped	adj	Insufficiently or imperfectly formed.
Undershapen	vb	Undersized. 2. embryonic; inchoate; imperfectly formed.
Under-sheriff	n	A deputy sheriff.
Undershining	adj	Of an quality inferior in brightness.
Undershirt	n	Undergarment worn under a shirt, vest.
Undershot	adj	Propelled by water flowing underneath; said of a water wheel. 2. projecting; having a lower projecting lower jaw or teeth; said esp. of a bulldog.
Undershoot	n	Of an aircraft landing short of a runway. 2. the act or instance of undershooting.
Undershoot	vb	To shoot short of below.
Undershot	adj	Underhung. 2. of a waterwheel, turned by water flowing under it.
Undershorts	n	Trunks, underpants.
Undershrub	n	A small plant with a shrubby base.
Undershut	adj	Imperfectedly shut or closed; said of a door etc.
Underside	n	The lower or underside or surface.
Undersight	n	To overlook a small detail; to forget to do something very small; to miss a nominal item.
Undersitter	n	One who occupies part of another's house or property; a sub-tenant or lodger.
Undersleeve	n	A sleeve worn beneath another, especially when of contrasting color and shown through slashes or openings.
Undersong	n	A subordinate or subdued song or strain; esp. one serving as an accompaniment or chorus, burden, refrain, to another; frequently transfig. of natural sound. 2. fig. of a hidden meaning.
Undersow	vb	Sow (a later-growing crop) on land already seeded with another crop. 2. sow land already seeded (with a crop) with a later growing crop.
Underspeak	vb	To fall short or come short in speaking of another person or some thing.
Underspend	vb	Spend less than usual for a specified (monthly) amount.
Underspread	vb	to spread under or beneath.
Underspring	n	A subterranean water source.
Understairs	n	In a space below the staircase.
Understand	vb	To know and comprehend the nature or meaning of. 2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; realize, realise, see. 3. make sense of a language; read, interpret, translate. 4. believe to be the case; experience; infer. 5. be understanding of; sympathize, empathize, empathise. 6. to have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem. 7. to be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Parliament has passed the bill. 8. to recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. 9. to mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. 10. to stand under; to support. 11. to give one to understand, to cause one to know. 12. to make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. 13. to have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being. 14. to be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
Understand	phr	"Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement.
Understand	phr	"Give somebody to Understand" - lead somebody to believe.
Understand	phr	"On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that.
Understand	phr	"Understand All is to Forgive All" - when all facts are known and understood it is possible to forgive a person for anything.
Understand	phr	"Understand Each Other" - know each others views or feelings.
Understander	n	One whose has knowledge or comprehension of something. 2. a leg or foot. 3. a boot or shore. 4. a apectator standing on the ground or floor; a spectator standing in a theatre or sports ground. 5. a supporter, upholder.
Understanding	n	Power or ability to understand, intellect, intelligence. 2. capability of judging with knowledge. 3. the faculty of comprehending; reasoning; the intellect, mind, purpose, comprehension, intent. 4. intellectual facility, as manifested in a particular person or persons. 5. signification, meaning, sense. 6. information, knowledge. 7. good, amicable friendly relation between persons.
Understanding	phr	"Come to an Understanding" - make an agreement.
Understanding	phr	"On the Understanding that" - on the agreed condition that.
Understanding	phr	"With the Understanding" - on (the agreed) condition that.
Understandingly	adv	In a comprehending or intelligent manner. 2. with understanding; also so as to be understood.
Under-standish-ness	n	An attitude ready and willing to undertake a project, business.
Understandness	n	State or condition of being understanding. 2. the faculty of understanding.
Understay	n	Support, foundation, props, as in the props and understay of health.
Understeer	n	Tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended.
Understeer	vb	To have a tendency of a motor vehicle to turn less sharply than was intended.
Under-steward	n	A senior official serving an important dignatory.
Understock	vb	To fail to provide sufficient stock or stores. 2. in farming: fail to keep the herds to an adequate number.
Understood	ppl	Being made known or patent; comprehended; thoroughly known; agreed upon; assured as known or fixed. 2. implied though not expressed.
Understream	n	An underground river or waterway.
Under-strength	adj	With a depleted number of troops or players; with less than the usual or required personnel, equipment, or resources. 2. a mixture, compound, or preparation: under the usual, appropriate, or expected potency or degree of concentration.
Under-strength	adv	Having less than the usual, appropriate, or expected potency or degree of concentration. 2. having less than the usual or required personnel, equipment, or resources.
Understrew	vb	To spread or strew beneath; fig. to cast under foot, to trod upon.
Understrike	vb	To strike below; underline, understroke or underscore.
Undersward	n	Stiff, wiry knot grass forming a rugged area.
Underswearer	n	One who swears under oath.
Undersweep	vb	To sweep beneath or under.
Underswell	n	A swell below the surface of water. 2. a building of support or emotional for a cause or for change.
Undertake	vb	To trap by raft; entrap. 2. to sieze upon. 3. to chide, rebuke, reprove. 4. to accept, receive willingly. 5. to receive; to have given. 6. to receive into the mind; to be understood.
Undertaken	ppl	Attended to; made safe; taken in hand; enterprised.
Undertaker	n	One who acts or assists; a helper, an assister. 2. a rebuker, reprover. 3. one who undertakes a task or enterprise; one who undertakes to carry out work or business for another; a contractor, a collector of taxes. 4. one who takes aup a challenge. 5. one who attempts to colonise land. 6. one who makes a business of carrying out the arrangements for funerals. 7. one who engages in the serious study of a subject or science. 8. one who undertakes the preparation of litery works. 9. a book publisher. 10 a producer of opera or plays; an entrepreneur; manager, impresario. 11. one who acts as security or surety for another. 12. a a baptismal sponsor.
Undertaking	adj	Ready to undertake an enterprise , task, etc. esp., one involving some danger or risk; enterprising, bold. 3. engaged in literary work. 4. prepared to act as publishers. 5. pledged, bound by promise.
Undertakingly	adv	Responsibly.
Undertalked	adj	Down playing of one own capacity and abilities.
Underthew	vb	To subject, subdue, subjugate.
Underthing	n	A lower or inferior thing or person.
Underthings	n	Underclothes; underwear.
Underthink	vb	To think too little of. 2. to underestimate; to think insufficiently of. 3. to penetrate by thinking; to think deeply.
Underthrown	adj	Subjected, made subjected; thrown under or down; subjugated.
Undertide	n	Evening, undertime, not undern.
Undertimed	adj	Under-exposed (of a photographic negative).
Undertow	n	A current below the surface of the water; moving in a contrary direction to that of the surface current.
Undertread	vb	To thread under foot; subdue or subjugate. 2. to reinforce a tread on a rubber tyre.
Underwater	n	The region or environment below the surface of the water.
Underwater	adj	Placed, situated, carried on, etc. underwater. 2. in ships situated below the waterline.
Underwater	adv	Under the water. 2. situated or done under the water.
Underway	adv	Currently in progress, afoot.
Underweapon	n	Primitive, simple weapons, such as stones and sling-shots.
Underwear	n	Unclothing, unclothes.
Under-weening	n	Underestimation of oneself or something.
Underweight	adj	Of insufficient weight; not sufficiently heavy. 2. deficient in weight.
Underweight	n	A condition of being lighter than average for one height and build.
Underwent	pp	Past particle of "undergo.'
Underwhelm	vb	To leave unimpressed to arouse little or no interest. 2. to interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person.
Underwhelmed	adj	To be of interest less than anticipated. 3. to be dull to a person.
Underwhelming	ppl	Of less interst than.
Underwing	n	The hindwing of an insect. 2. the underside of a bird's wing.
Underwired	adj	Having a thin semi-circular support of wire under of wire inset under each cup.
Underwit	n	A poor or inferior kind of wit. 2. a person of defective understanding; a half-wit.
Unwitted	adj	Having not wit or understanding.
Underwood	n	Small trees or shrubs; coppice-wood or brush-wood growing beneath higher timber or trees. 2. a stump of a tree that regularly throws out new shoots. 3. quantity or stretch of woody undergrowth.
Underwork	n	Work done at a lower rate. 2. subordinate or inferior work. 3. underhand or secret work.
Underwork	vb	To work secretly; to take clandestine measures. 2. to work against secretly; to seek to undermine or overthrow. 3. to spend to little work on; to leave unfinished; to impose too little work on. 4. to work for less wages than another.
Underworking	n	The action of a secret or unapproved nature of underworking of government.
Underworld	n	The sublunary or terrestrial world. 2. the abode of the deaparted imagined as being under the earth; the nether world. 3. the region below the surface of the earth; subterranean or underlying area. 4. The Antipodes; also the part of the earth beyond the horizon. 5. a sphere or region lying or consider to lie below the ordinary one. Hence also (fig) a lower; or the lowest stratum of society. 6. the world of criminals or of organised crime (usu. with "the"); hence those of this world. 7. the slang of the criminal underworld: "he got the chop" - he was murdered.
Underwordly	adj	of the underworld.
Underwrite	vb	Guarantee financial support of; subvent. 2. protect by insurance; cover, insure. 3. to practice the business of insuring; to take a risk of insurance on a vessel or the like. 4. to write under something else; to subscribe. 5. to subscribe one's name to for insurance, especially for marine insurance.
Underwriter	n	One underwrites an insurance policy; spec. one who carries on an insurance business; esp. of shipping. 2. one who underwrites company shares.
Under-written law	n	A long established custom that is difficult to break or disobey.
Underwrought	vb	Underwork; unworked, undermined.
Undew	vb	To remove or make ground or grass free of dew.
Undewy	adj	"Field parched with unusual heat through undewy ground". 2. not having dew; devoid of dew.
Undight	vb	To divest of clothing, armour etc; to disarray, strip. 2. to unfasten; undo, unclench or open.
Undight	adj	Not adorned, decked or put in order.
Undighted	adj	Undressed, stripped.
Undim	vb	To lighten, brighten up. 2. to clarify.
Undigged	adj	Not dug up or ploughed.
Undimmed	vb	Not lessening in light or perception, as in "undimmed eyes." 2. "cloudness moon, undimmed and unarrayed."
Undinned	adj	Not affected by a specific noise or noise, such as a noisy drummer drowning out a singer's song.
Undo	vb	Cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect; 2. deprive of certain characteristics, unmake. 3. cause the ruin or downfall of. 4. cause to become loose; untie the knot. 5. remove the outer cover or wrapping of; unwrap. 5. to reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught. "What's done can not be undone." 6. to loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve. 7. to bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as reputation, morals, hopes, or the like.
Undoer	n	One who doesn't act or perform. 2. an expounder, interpreter, one who opens or expounds or unfastens. 3. a destroyer, wrecker, ruiner. 4. one who destroys a woman, a seducer, profligate, rake. 5 . one who does less than is requisite or neccesary. one who deals with matters insufficiently or imperfectedly.
Undoing	n	Ruin or cause of ruin. 2. the process of reversing what has been done.3. the action of opening or unfastening. 3. the omission or neglect of doing; non-performance .
Undoing	phr	"That Was his Undoing." ruin, downfall.
Undoingness	n	The act of not caring for or about, not pertaining to; hence duties. 2. the state of inaction or doing little. 3. uncaringness.
Undone	adj	Brought to decay or ruin; destroyed. 2. unfastened, untied. 3. not done, unaccomplished, unaffected.
Undoneness	n	Under a sense of undone.
Undoomed	adj	"Unfit for earth; undoomed for heaven": not condemned or judged.
Undought	n	A weak puny person or creature; a silly, incapable person. 2. an ineffective, worthless person.
Undoughty	adj	Weak, puny, silly, incapable, worthless, feeble, contempt. 2. lacking in good qualities, ineffective, bad, vile.
Undrained	adj	Not drained, wet, marshy, boggy, as in fens or wetlands.
Undraw	vb	To draw out; withdraw. 2. to draw back (esp. a curtain). 2. to unfasten by pulling. 3. to move back on being pulled.
Undrawn	adj	Never drawn or pulled along by a plough, vehicle or cart. 2. unmilked. 3. of a lottery not yet drawn. 4. not delineated or depicted.
Undreaded	adj	Not dreaded or feared.
Undreadful	adj	Having no dread; unapprehensile. 2. not causing dread, fear, terror, undreading. 3. without dread or fear.
Undried	adj	Not dried.
Undriven	adj	Not compelled forcibly by an outside agency. 2. not urged or forced to action or act through moral persuasion. 3. not impelled; not strongly motivated for success; not compulsive, not determined.
Undrowned	adj	Of pasture, field, town, etc., - not flooded. 2. of persons, animals: not dead by drowning. 3. of sound, music etc : not drowned out by a noiser or louder sound, noise and the like.
Undug	vb	Not yet dug for, as oil lying deep under the earth surface or in a sea or ocean.
Undull	adj	Of conversation: not dull or boring, but no necessarily interesting or living.
Undullness	n	"His admirable sense, and undullness of conversation." - state or quality of being neither dull or boring.
Undusted	adj	Not sprinkled with dust. 2. not freed from dust; left dusty.
Undwelt	adj	Not dwelt in, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpopulated.
Undweltness	n	State of being uninhabited, unoccupied, unlived in, unpopulated.