2-Letter Words Starting with U

RELIABILITY The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

""REMINISCENT Recalling to mind, or capable of recalling to mind; having remembrance; reminding one of something.""

Unremitting

Unrepentant

REPRESENTED represent

""RESPECTABLE Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen. as, a respectable citizen.""

Unrighteous

Inflected form of SALVAGEABLE Inflected form of SALVAGEE done in whose favor salvage has been effected

Unselective

Unselfish

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

Showing no tender emotions

Not given to excessively tender emotions

Eschewing tender emotions

Unserious

Not in working order

Error in cube reveals it to be of no use

The quality or state of being unsettled.

Unsettlement

SIGHTLINESS The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

Unsoundness

""Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism.""

SPECIFIABLE Admitting specification; capable of being specified.

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

SUITABILITY The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Incapable of being defended

Not able to be tolerated

Not able to be bettered

""SUSCEPTIBLE Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.""

""SUSTAINABLE Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable. as, the action is not sustainable.""

Clumsy minaret flawed because it's this

Not having matching parts either side of an axis

Lacking compassion

Without compassion

Not likeable

""THEORETICAL Pertaining to theory; depending on, or confined to, theory or speculation; speculative; terminating in theory or speculation: not practical; as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.as, theoretical learning; theoretic sciences.""

THREATENING threaten

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

Not changed

Not to be relied on

Not to be believed

Not to be relied upon

Unusualness

Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper.

""Inflected form of WARRANTABLY Inflected form of WARRANT to justify, also WARRAN, WARRAND""

Unwholesome

Reluctance

WORKABILITY

Naivety worsens in dull position

Lack of sophistication

Naivety

Abstract noun (-ity)

A student in the junior or senior class of a secondary school or college.

Certain students.

Uprightness

Uptightness

Uranography

Urbanisation

Urbanization

Urbanologist

A reddish spore that is produced in the uredinium of a rust fungus and that spreads to and infects other host plants.

Urethroscope

Uselessness

Ubiquitous

Ultimateness

Law 1. (Law) a principle of inheritance whereby the youngest son succeeds to the estate of his ancestor Compare primogeniture

CIVILIZED civilize

COMPETENT Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

Plural or third person singular

""EFFICIENT Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. as, an efficient officer, power.""

ENERGETIC

""EXCLUSIVE Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.""

Ultrafiltrate

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Ultramarathon

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

MICROTOME An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.

ULTRAMICRO

""MINIATURE Originally, a painting in colors such as those in medi\'91val manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.""

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

""The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism. Gallicanism.""

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

ULTRAREALIST

Ultrarightist

Ultraroyalist

""SENSITIVE Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. as, a sensitive soul.""

ULTRASONIC

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Ultraviolence

Umbrageous

ACADEMICALLY In an academical manner.

""Inflected form of ACCLIMATIZED Inflected form of ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""Inflected form of ACCOMMODATED Inflected form of ACCOMMODATE To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances. as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.""

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

Unaccustomed

ACKNOWLEDGED Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged.unacknowledged.

Unaffected

""AFFECTIONATE Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. as, an affectionate brother.""

ALTERABILITY The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Unambivalent

ANESTHETIZED rendered insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.

Unappetizing

""APPRECIATION A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.""

Not recognising the merits of something

""APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

""Inflected form of UNAPPROACHABLE Inflected form of APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

Unassuming

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

Unavailing

Unbecoming

Unbiasedness

Inflected form of BUREAUCRATIC Inflected form of BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

BUSINESSLIKE In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Unchanging

Unchasteness

CHAUVINISTIC fanatically patriotic.

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

CLASSIFIABLE Capable of being classified.

Uncollectible

Uncommonness

""COMMUNICABLE Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.""

COMPREHENDED comprehend

Not willing to make concessions

Not likely to bend

Obstinate bunch come both unprotected and hopeful

""COMPUTERIZED stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

Unconformity

CONGENIALITY The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

Relative carrying on with family member, a brother primarily amoral

CONSCIONABLY Reasonably; justly.

""CONSOLIDATED Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.""

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

Pure tuna mixed with a condiment

Not polluted

Without impurities

Inflected form of CONTEMPLATED Inflected form of CONTEMPLATE To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study.

""CONTEMPORARY Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous.""

CONTRADICTED contradict

Not open to regulation

Inflected form of CONTROLLABLY Inflected form of CONTROLE registered

Free in one's ways

Free and easy.

Alternative place for sisters in harmony by a lake

Unconvincing

Not confirmed by evidence

CREDENTIALED credential

CRYSTALLIZED smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

Unctuousness

DECIDABILITY

""DECIPHERABLE Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

Undeniable

Underachiever

ACHIEVING achieve

Undercarriage

Underclothing

(Of a country) not economically advanced

Like dark pictures of the Third World

Like a picture that comes out badly scrawny

""EMPHASIZE To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase. as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.""

Judged badly, but not excessively

Made approximation that wasn't highly inaccurate

Two continental articles calculated at less than current price

Underestimate

Underexposure

Guard sauntered around with students

Students sauntered around having swallowed a drug naughtily

GROUNDERS grounder

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

Hungry? Rescheduled dinner hour's due

""NUTRITION In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.""

Underpainting

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

Ministry high-up

Office junior for leading civil servant

Government official needing to sort out nerdy creatures

Understaffing

Able to be got (wordplay)

Able to be comprehended

Can be appreciated that it is reasonable

""UNDERSTAND To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.""

STANDINGS standing

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

Understrapper

Underthrust

UTILIZING utilize

Run a novel audit producing assessment that's too low

DESIRABILITY The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

Not determinable; indeterminable.

""DISCOVERABLE Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.""

DOGMATICALLY In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

Release many exotic species initially tethered, including feline that's wild

DRAMATICALLY In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

EMPHATICALLY With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; pre\'89minently.

ENLIGHTENING enlighten

Not showing initiative

Apathetic flipping nuisance! Shut it!

Cool cuties hit annus horribilis

Showing no interest

Uneventful

Unexpected

Unfaithful

""Persistently calm, whether when facing difficulties or experiencing success; not easily upset or excited.""

Unflattering

Personal hostility

Unfruitful

Ungainliness

Ungenerosity

Ungracious

Ungrateful

Like a shot from dreadful gun, hit in a style

Unhysterical

IDENTIFIABLE Capable of being identified.

Having but one dimension. See Dimension. Dimension.

Moving or operating in one direction only: a unidirectional microphone.

""Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.""

ILLUMINATING Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

INCORPORATED United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.