Ut.

Saxon out, as Utoxeter, in Staffordshire; Utrecht, in Holland; “outer camp town”; the “out passage,” so called by Clotaire because it was the grand passage over or out of the Rhine before that river changed its bed. Utmost is out or outer-most. (See Utgard.)

Strain at [ut. “out”] a gnat, and swallow a camel.”—Matt. xxiii. 24.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Urgel
Uriah
Uriel
Urim
Urim and Thummim
Ursa Major
Ursa Minor
Used Up
Usher means a porter
Usquebaugh
Ut
Ut Queat Laxis, etc
Uta
Uter
Uterine
Utgard (Old Norse, outer ward)
Utgard-Lok
Uti Possidetis (Latin, as you at present possess them)
Uticensis
Utilitarians
Utopia