Phrase Hound found 294 phrases and 37 compound words that contain upper. The most common are listed below. Open upper in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 294
- upper caseThe capital letters A, B, C, ... as opposed to the small letters a, b, c, ....
- upper boundA value that is greater than or equal to every element of a given set of values.
- upper classA class of people at the top of a social hierarchy.
- upper handAdvantage or control.
- upper armThe section of an arm from the elbow to the shoulder.
- upper bodyThe upper part of the body, usually upwards of the waist.
- upper limitSynonym of limit superior: The supremum of the set of accumulation points of a given sequence or set.
- Upper AustriaA state of Austria, with its capital in Linz.
- upper deckThe topmost full-length deck of a ship.
- upper houseThe upper legislative house in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower house.
- Upper EgyptThe part of Ancient Egypt south of Memphis, so named because the Nile flows south to north.
- Upper SouthThe northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky …
- upper boundsplural of upper bound: A value that is greater than or equal to every element of a given set of values.
- upper reachesThe highest or most northerly extremes of something.
- Upper VoltaFormer name of Burkina Faso: a country in West Africa, used from 1958-1984.
- Upper CanadaA former British colony located in what is now southern Ontario.
- upper middle classA social and economic class lying above the lower middle class and below the upper class.
- Upper GermanOne of two major dialect groups of the High German language; spoken primarily in southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alsace, and South Tyrol; distinguished from Central German / Middle German (= Mitteldeutsch) by the …
- Upper LakeA census-designated place in Lake County, California, United States.
- Upper respiratory
- upper atmosphereThe mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere
- Upper Sorbiana Slavic language spoken in part of Saxony
- Upper HillA neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya.
- Upper BoatA suburban village in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1087).
- Upper SilesiaA historical region in Central Europe, the southeastern part of Silesia, today mostly within Poland with a small strip located in the Czech Republic.
Compound words 37
- uppermostsuperlative form of upper: most upper.
- uppercutA swinging blow aimed upwards at the opponent's chin.
- upperclassmanA junior or senior student in a school or college.
- upperworldHeaven.
- upperpartAny of the upper parts of a bird, including the mantle, back, rump and upper part of the tail coverts
- upperwingThe upper part of a wing of a bird or butterfly
- upperworkssuperstructure
- nonupperNot upper.
- upperclasswomanA female upperclassman.
- uppererOne who fits the uppers to shoes.