The results reported in this paper aim to increase the presence of the Uzbek language in the Internet and its usability within IT applications.We describe the initial development of a "word-net" for the Uzbek language compatible to Princeton Word-Net.We called it UZWORDNET.In the current version, UZWORDNET contains 28140 synsets, 64389 sense and 20683 words; its estimated accuracy is 75.98%.To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest wordnet for Uzbek existing to date, and the second wordnet developed overall. *The acronym "LDKR" means Language, Data, Knowledge, and Reasoning.The LDKR Group aims to discovering (learning), modeling, reducing and computing the "semantic gap" between users and the Universe of Language(s), Data, Information and Knowledge their ICT systems are based on. 1 For instance, see https://medium.com/@robert.munro/bias- in-ai-3ea569f79d6a (accessed