12-Letter Words Starting with U

DISTANT far off or apart

RADICAL a group of atoms that act as a unit in chemical compounds

REFINED refine

Inflected form of ACCLIMATED Inflected form of ACCLIMATE To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.

Not officially recognised

Not given official recognition

Not certified

Not customary to make a dunce cover sacred cow

Not acquainted.

Taking place without being made public

Unaffected

Not attached to an organisation

The French bear the expense of clever type it's too expensive for most people

ALLEVIATED made less severe or intense.

ASSOCIATED Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.

ATTENUATED Made thin or slender.

Of unknown provenance

A foreign element reaching bad end came from God knows where

""AUTHORIZED Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

""Inflected form of BARRICADED Inflected form of BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

UNBIASED unbias

BRIDGEABLE capable of being connected by a bridge or as if by a bridge.

""CALCULATED Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.""

""Inflected form of CALIBRATED Inflected form of CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

Little-known

Not rivalled

Lines European put in not edited and not disputed

Sans supervision (hidden celeb 3)

* Sans supervision

""Not christened; as, an unchristened child. as, an unchristened child.""

Not recorded children travelling, with count incomplete

""Inflected form of CIRCULATED Inflected form of CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Not given category

COMPOUNDED compound

Not confounded.

""CONJUGATED formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.as, a conjugated protein.""

Don, seducer in trouble, may be ignored

Mac's remarkable northern team - looking hot but ignored

CONTRACTED contract

Out of hand

Without restraint or regulation

Wild organisation ruled the roost

CORRELATED mutually related.

""Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract.""

Not highly educated

Fallow deer's head after upset in Tuvalu etc

Poorly educated and not prepared to grow crops

Undecillion

DECIPHERED decipher

DECOMPOSED Separated or broken up; said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

""DEFOLIATED Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.""

Power failure without show of hands

Organisation is not despotic or totalitarian

Curt comedian abandoned without popular support

Fickle, as hangers-on are not

Do less well than expected

Underbelly

Underbidder

Underbid

Underbrush

Underbud

CHARGED charge

Undercharge

Underclass

Boxer's briefs (wordplay)

Briefs a number of boxers

Garments worn next to the skin

Undercoat

Undercool

Undercount

Flounder currently holding tidal flow

Hidden significance of words or actions

Flow hidden beneath surface

Offering goods at lower prices than (competitors)

DRAWERS drawer

Given too little light

Underexpose

Underfeed

Underfund

Pants perhaps turned German off

What exactly is a brief?

What exactly is a brief (wordplay)

Undergird

Units of resistance, often charged up?

Units of resistance, often charged up (wordplay)

Undergrowth

INSURED one who is insured

Underlap

See underlay 1 .

Underlet

Underlying

Manner deputy arranged partial settlement

Underpin

Underplay

Lacking sufficient oomph

PRICING an act of pricing

Underreact

Underreport

Coming in too short

Emphasising what a consistently poor batsman is doing (wordplay)

Putting emphasis on not getting enough runs (wordplay)

Undersell

Undershirt

Lacking sufficient employees

STATING state

Understeer

Understory

Wasn't a diligent pupil prepared to take part if necessary (wordplay)

Waiters in the wings

They don't start

They take part in emergencies

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Teasing drunk about responsibilities

Short of cash receipts for tasks

Enterprises giving less profits (wordplay)

Undertenant

Underthrust

""UTILIZE to make use of, also UTILISE""

VALUING value

Underweight

Less than impressed

Far from pleased or stirred

Not impressed

Underwriter

""The business of an underwriter,""

Criminal went with ID, return guaranteed

Subscribed and accepted financial responsibility

Accepted financial responsibility for being subscribed (wordplay)

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Objectionable people

Not able to be identified

Up in the air

Indigestible.

Relentless action leads to a foreign policeman finding car by outhouse

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Not relieved of bankruptcy

Yet to be found

Indisputable.

DISTRACTED distract

DOCUMENTED document

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Inflected form of DUPLICATED Inflected form of DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

EMBITTERED embitter

Free of liability

Free, one Parisian figured, to be injected with drug

How Housman's years came

Without warning

Out of the blue, organisation looked for central characters involved in analysis

Not censored (of books)

Without deletions

Unabridged

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

""Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. as, an unfrequented place or forest.""

GENTRIFIED gentrify

""Inflected form of GERMINATED Inflected form of GERMINATE To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.""

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Unhandsome

Inflected form of HYDROLYZED Inflected form of HYDROLYZE

""HYPHENATED United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word. as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.""

Not recognised

Mysterious affair seen briefly coming over in profundity (wordplay)

ILLUSIONED under an illusion

Not affected (by)

""Inflected form of INOCULATED Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

INSTRUCTED instruct

INTEGRATED Formed or united into a whole.

Bored teen isn't rude, surprisingly

Having no care in knowing

Apathetic rude teen isn't misbehaving

Inflected form of IRRADIATED Inflected form of IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Unkindness.

Unkindness

Absence of likelihood.

Unmannered

Not mechanized.

Inflected form of MODERNIZED Inflected form of MODERNIZE To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

""Inflected form of MYELINATED Inflected form of MYELINE a fatty substance that covers certain nerve fibres, also MYELIN""

See rutherfordium .

OBSTRUCTED obstruct

Simple switch turned on to receive call

Unorthodox

""Inflected form of OXYGENATED Inflected form of OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

Tops by a considerable margin

Unique, unlike bar used by gymnast

Not equalled

That cannot be forgiven

Impossible to forgive

Free from bias

Not biased

Unbiased

PRETENDING pretend

Having no morals

Lacking moral scruples

Lacking integrity

""PRIVILEGED Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.""

Sterile

PROGRAMMED program

PRONOUNCED Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

""Inflected form of PUNCTUATED Inflected form of PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

Fully accepted.

Beyond doubt

Not challenged

RECOGNIZED

Not brought together

""REDEEMABLE Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.""

Off the record, international body had an impact

Buckled under, skirting main point, before being off the record

REINFORCED

Unrelieved

REMEMBERED remember

Every sled run is different? Absolutely

Without hesitation

Without qualification

Rampant disorder was rampant, say

Dreariest nun can be wild!

Not tied up

Accessible to all

Not limited

Accessible to all reproducing red tinctures

Not approved

Star loses the head, is supported and isn't punished

Not set apart

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Shakiness; lack of regularity

Shaky state

Shakiness

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

""Not stratified; applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.""

Loose, in today's world

""Inflected form of SUBSIDIZED Inflected form of SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Not overseen

Untidiness

TOWARDNESS Quality or state of being toward.

TRANSLATED

""Inflected form of VACCINATED Inflected form of VACCINATE To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.""

""Inflected form of VENTILATED Inflected form of VENTILATE To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine. as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.""

Inflected form of VERBALIZED Inflected form of VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

UNWASHED an ignorant or underprivileged group

WIELDINESS

WONTEDNESS The quality or state of being accustomed.

Unyielding

UPROOTED uproot

Upwardness

Urediospore

Plural or third person singular

Urochordate