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Uckenfays
225; familial expression of Temperance, following the Icosadyad scheme, and perhaps not the author's favorite Quality, judging from the embedded pig Latin.

ukulele
27;

Uncompahgre
172; The Uncompahgre National Forest lies in the heart of American alpine country, in Colorado. It's a land of 14,000-foot peaks, fast-flowing creeks, alpine lakes, deep spruce forests, red rock gorges, and lots of black bears. It's also a land of gold. Abandoned mine shafts and ghost towns dot the landscape, emblems of the Uncompahgre's Gold Rush past.

uniforms
18; Bindlestiffs' uniforms: "indigo mohair brilliantine with scarlet pinstripes, and headgear which had failed to achieve the simpler geometry of the well-known Shriner fez" (the Shriners are a Masonic offshoot); Foley Walker's and Scarsdale Vibe's, 74;

Union With the All
77; Skip's, 74;

Utahan
485; a person from Utah;

Uyghur
440; a Turkic language spoken by the Uyghur people in Xinjiang (also called East Turkestan or Uyghuristan), formerly also “Sinkiang” and “Chinese Turkestan,” a Central Asian region administered by China; this is a language spoken where the subterranean Shambhala is supposedly located, beneath the Gobi desert; Wikipedia entry