2-Letter Words Starting with U

""Inflected form of BOWDLERIZED Inflected form of BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

CALCULATING Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

Uncanniness

""Inflected form of CAPITALIZED Inflected form of CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Without due formalities

Forgoing formality

Informal

Uncertain

Uncertainty

""CHALLENGING requiring full use of one's abilities or resources; as, challenging task.as, challenging task.""

CHARISMATIC Of or pertaining to a charism.

""Inflected form of CHLORINATED Inflected form of CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

""Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites.""

My dad's brother's slob state (wordplay)

Lack of hygiene

Dirty state

Uncleanness

COLLECTIBLE Capable of being collected.

Awkward - not conducive to relaxing

Not at ease

Ill at ease

Inflected form of COMFORTABLY Inflected form of COMFORT to {console=v}

Not reimbursed

Disinclined to go up against others

(Of prices) higher than others

Not marketable enough

Stoical

Clear a Parisian complex

Straightforward

Simple

Inconceivable.

CONCERNEDLY In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

Without any ifs or buts

Under all circumstances

With no strings attached

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming.

Inflected form of CONFORMABLY Inflected form of CONFORM to {comply=v}

Invincible

UNCONQUERABLE Not conquerable; indomitable.

Unconscious

Not no wing, by the sound of it

Not hallowed

Not limited

At liberty

A French prisoner's disciplined, but not locked up

Unconstraint

CONSTRICTED Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

CONSTRUCTED construct

Inflected form of CONSUMMATED Inflected form of CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

CONTAINABLE Capable of being contained or comprised.

CONTENTIOUS Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

Unwilling to get involved

Not willing to help

Not willing to help others

Badly organised

CORRECTABLE Capable of being corrected.

Uncouthness

Uncustomary

Like returned post

Like returned mail

Powerless to accept reviled revolutionary with incorrect address (wordplay)

ACHIEVED achieve

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

Hear I've tangled with dunce? Right, he could do better

Underachieve

ACTIVITY the state of being active

Underbudget

Landing gear below coach

Changed gear, ruined car, or part of one

(Aircraft) landing gear

CHARGING charge

They're not yet seniors

CLASSMEN classman

Where to look for vest (wordplay)

Invest in this

Old chuntering about lingerie

COATINGS coating

Undercount

Nora Roberts book

Hidden feelings

Suggestions

Short on schooling

EMPHASES emphasis

EMPHASIS stress imparted to something to indicate significance

Not used enough

Having too little work

Not fully made use of

Set too low

Evaluation that is too low

Rate as too low

EXPOSING expose

Fault of a dark picture

A giving of insufficient light to a photograph

FINANCED finance

Bras and briefs

Clothes that should not be worn out

Eg, bra, pants, vest, etc

One studying for a first degree

Student's strangely guarded nature

Student's oddly guarded nature

Underground

In a dishonest manner

INFLATED inflate

Underlayment

PAINTING a painted picture

Underpayment

Underpinning

Not ready enough for action

Insufficiently readied

Not ready

Underreact

Underreport

Undershoot

STAFFING staff

Getting sympathetic (wordplay)

Digging beneath footing (wordplay)

Gathering the soles there (wordplay)

Understated

Understeer

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

A French-German article on power of missing players

Preparing to substitute for player, not learning enough

Undersupply

Undersurface

UTILIZED utilize

Underutilize

Surprisingly wild men hunger for routine

Subservient to western leadership? Not very impressive

DESCRIBABLE That can be described; capable of description.

Undeviating

Inflected form of DIAGNOSABLE Inflected form of DIAGNOSE to identify a disease by symptoms

DIALECTICAL Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

Without self-control

Lacking in self-control

Uncontrolled in behaviour

""Inflected form of DISCOURAGED Inflected form of DISCOURAGE To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.""

Openly issued gin: duly chastised

Openly

DISSOCIATED not connected or associated.

DISTRIBUTED spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of concentrated.concentrated.

""DOCTRINAIRE One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. as, doctrinaire notions.""

Undutiful

Unnatural or mysterious quality

Mysterious quality

ELECTRIFIED

Not ashamed

Plain - humble lid seen (anagram)

Sans ornamentation

Unemotional

Unemployable

Unemployment

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

(Of law) impossible to police

Not given spiritual insight

Without spiritual insight

Not uplifted by knowledge or religion

Adverb

With no ambiguity

Not permanently set up

Commonplace.

Usual

EXPLAINABLE Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

""FALSIFIABLE Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted.""

Unfaltering

Quality of strangeness

Not hot, not cool

Not popular

Not chic

FASHIONABLY In a fashionable manner.

Unfeeling

Unflinching

Incapable of being foreseen.

Memorable number (wordplay)

Always remaining in the mind

Striking and elegant, but for pants ...

UNFORGETTABLE Not forgettable; enduring in memory.

Not giving information

Not willing to divulge information

Aloof

Your aunt felt badly about cousin's final letter, alas

Alas

1. not completed or achieved unfulfilled ambitions

GENTLEMANLY gentleman

Ungodliness

Not conforming to the rules of syntax

(Of a sentence) not correct

Linguistically flawed

Unguarded

Unhandiness

Unhappiness

A state of constitutional disorder

""HOMOGENIZED formed by blending unlike elements, especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance.""

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

Uniformness

Stolid, somewhat dull

Lacking any creativity

Lacking in mental creativity

Collected pain? One ends sumo wrestling!

Beyond doubt or reproach

President's favorite ice cream flavor (wordplay)

Beyond reproach

""UNIMPEACHABLE Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony.""

Providing no useful knowledge

Revealing little

Lacking information

Not suitable for living in

Uninhibited

""INSTRUCTIVE Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.""

Lacking wit

Loveless marriage, say, with one bloke? That's foolish

Stupid group of workers, none the less, report information in it

Not done on purpose

Accidental

Not meant

Not arousing curiosity

Various units entering flat

Dull, boring

Continuous

Constant return generated a little money to feed one side of Manchester

Continual

INTIMIDATED made timid or fearful as by threats.

Unionisation

Unionization

Uniparental

Unitarianism

Universalism

Universalist

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

Universalize

The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Can't be defended, having no grounds

Indefensible

JUSTIFIABLY

""Impossible to know, especially being beyond the range of human experience or understanding: the unknowable mysteries of life.""

Unlikelihood

Unluckiness

Unmalicious

""Inflected form of MANIPULATED Inflected form of MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Unmanliness

Forbidden as a topic of conversation

Scandalous, man on tube line flashing

Indecent playing alone in tub embracing blokes

Inflected form of METABOLIZED Inflected form of METABOLIZE To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Unmitigated

Unnatural

Canines surely unleashed for nothing

That gets in the way of the start of 36 across

Unnilpentium

Unnilquadium

So as not to attract attention

Unorthodoxy

Inflected form of PARASITIZED Inflected form of PARASITIZE

Inflected form of PASTEURIZED Inflected form of PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

""PERFORMABLE Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

""PICTURESQUE Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.""

Never known before

Like never before

Never before known or experienced

Not capable of being foretold

Sadly date Republican without a chance

Toss caber. Upend it holding length up in the air

Inflected form of PREDICTABLY Inflected form of PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Inflected form of PRESSURIZED Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Without airs and graces

Simple routine upset about including new start

Understated

*Not about to raise eyebrows

Straightforward

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Unpromising

PUBLISHABLE Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

""PUNCTUALITY The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.""

Unqualified

Not expressing doubt

Unquietness

Unreadiness

Unreasoning

RECLAIMABLE That may be reclaimed.

""RECOVERABLE Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.""

Unrelenting