2-Letter Words Starting with U

Cease to exist

Cease to exist, old-style

Cause to cease to exist, in olden times

""A little further on, also UPBY""

Everywhere

Sunspots' centers

Celestial shadows

Shadows

Not trained, say

Lacking power (to do something)

Lacking power (to do)

Prepare to shower, say

Prepare for a massage, perhaps

Get ready for the shower, say

Upbear

Courteous and affable.

Elegant, like Cary Grant

Debonair and witty

Not expired, perhaps

Worth saving, maybe

Fit to be tried (wordplay)

Take a fence, perhaps, with fury at last

Offence (usually taken)

R Mugabe gives offence

Free from tension

Remove a support from

Remove shoring

To release a brake

Not broken

Raised on high

Supported

In service (var.)

In functioning condition (var.)

That can be put to some purpose

Of the nature of an umbo

A wading-bird

'Remove restraint, of a horse, say (8)'

Loosen mixed bundle containing work of 12

Set loose

Prepare to deplane, perhaps

Undo (a shoe?)

Prepare to exit, perhaps

To price separately

Impossible to achieve

Only theoretical

Impossible

To {unfold=v}

Not suitable for eating

Ban lutes (anagram)

Not steady, maybe irrational

A home for a horse (wordplay)

Blunt Sue may be lacking in tact

Poor blues tune almost without nuance

Obvious or clumsy

Not able to perform its usual function

Out of whack

Not fit for purpose

Not workable

Impractical

By the sound of it, how to make them see the city sights

Angeleno, for example

Londoner or Liverpudlian

Unbear it for city dweller

Make citified

Make metropolitan

Build up.

""Whiskey, also USQUEBAE, USQUE""

""Whiskey, also USQUABAE, USQUE""

Like plants of the carrot family

Can't get around a cat that's not playful

The girl has a hundred on the table so that one can't play it

Girl on the road can be unfriendly

Can I follow a French one? Not likely, it seems

Rock, as a boat

Lack of equilibrium

One in Paris has remainder of disequilibrium

BANDAGE to cover a wound with a strip of cloth

Gone off in a neat blue convertible

Descriptive of badly cooked food.

Foxes dapper sailor with rubber clothing

FLYABLE suitable for flying

""-fies , -fying , -fied to make or become one; unite [from Medieval Latin ūnificāre, from Latin ūnus one + facere to make]""

LIKABLE able to be liked

""LIVABLE suitable for living in, also LIVEABLE""

Not engaging half of volunteers, poorly skilled

Translation of a blue novel, not English, does not inspire affection

MIXABLE able to be mixed

Not to be persuaded

Fixed

""RIDABLE capable of being ridden, also RIDEABLE""

Not fit for market

Like too-damaged merchandise

Not to be shifted, one in Paris rejected English pound, unfortunately

Taboo, as pronouncements

Not able to be controlled

Incapable of being controlled

Never can have beheld this, perhaps

That cannot be defended

Incapable of being defended or justified

Unlike sign language

Vocal

A quinone compound that serves as an electron carrier between flavoproteins and in cellular respiration.

Like all men.

AMENABLE capable of being persuaded

Weave rug inside? Woman up to it, without doubt

Incontrovertible

Too much to take

Sweltering, perhaps

Worse than awful

Impossible to defeat

Invincible

BENDABLE able to be bent

BURNABLE something that can be burnt

CHEWABLE able to be chewed

Certain difference in Danube and Nile

Drunkenly dine with bun and ale? Sure

Organisation at last in a position to study island? Can't say it isn't so!

EDUCABLE a mildly retarded person

Embarrassing - Vienna blue (anagram)

Not to be wished for

Unpleasant, difficult

Lacking practicality

Impractical

FINDABLE able to be found

Incapable of being recognised

In upper-class English rendering now blank and sure to remain so

Too sacred to be uttered

Dread, thus considered, that can't be handled (wordplay)

OPENABLE able to be opened

Impassable.

(Of a golf ball) cannot be hit

Like a piece with an eight-octave range, on a piano

Like certain math propositions

Awfully blue about star admitting spin canet be justified

Smudged, say

Such books cannot be got

Not legible

James memoirs said not to be trustworthy

Fly-by-night

Not to be trusted

SCALABLE able to be scaled

Restore to a readable state

Restore to readability

Rearrange, as mixed-up letters

SELLABLE able to be sold

Far from flimsy

Like the evidence given by the firm (wordplay)

Resolute

Always remaining afloat

Tragically inaccurate adjective of 1912

Like Molly Brown

SLAKABLE able to be quenched

Describing the stay-at-homes.

A club is one place out of order for this type

Withdrawn

Like the equation 'x = x + 1'

Like the equation "x = x + 1"

Like a confirmed nudist?

Like a confirmed nudist (wordplay)

Not appropriate

TESTABLE able to be tested

TILLABLE able to be tilled

WEARABLE a garment

'Professor' Stanley backing Italian islander that one is bound to lose

Nancy's article about Blake contains argument rejected as impractical

UPGRADE to raise to a higher standard

""Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works. as, the utilizable products of the gas works.""

ADAPTABLE Capable of being adapted.

ADOPTABLE Capable of being adopted.

Like certain rights, in the Declaration of Independence

Set in stone

Impossible to change

Not able to be changed

Not free (to do something)

Not free to do something

Like some accidents

Inevitable

Inescapable

2000 Bruce Willis film

Samuel L. Jackson film

Not capable of being budged; inflexible or unyielding.

Inflected form of BUILDABLE Inflected form of BUILD to construct

CATCHABLE Capable of being caught.

Not capable of being checked or stopped.

CLIMBABLE Capable of being climbed.

CLUBBABLE Suitable for membership in a club; sociable.

""COMBATIVE (<?/), a. Disposed to engage in combat; pugnacious.""

COUNTABLE Capable of being numbered.

Inflected form of CROSSABLE Inflected form of CROSSE a lacrosse stick

Inflected form of CRUSHABLE Inflected form of CRUSH to press out of shape

Inflected form of DANCEABLE Inflected form of DANCE to move rhythmically to music

Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable.

""DEBATABLE Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. as, a debatable question.""

DECIDABLE Capable of being decided; determinable.

Not possible to describe accurately

Not to be wished for

Not much wanted*

Rubens' ideal strangely not appealing

Indubitable.

Not potable

""ELABORATE Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.""

Inflected form of ELECTABLE Inflected form of ELECT to select by vote

ENDURABLE Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.

ESCAPABLE Avoidable.

""EXCITABLE Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.""

NEGATIVE

Like Batman when batting (wordplay)

Cool under pressure

Calm Scandinavian featured in a French story

GRASPABLE Capable of being grasped.

GUESSABLE Capable of being guessed.

Inflected form of IGNORABLE Inflected form of IGNORE to intentionally disregard

Like drivers with records, maybe

Like some big risks

LEARNABLE Such as can be learned.

MATCHABLE Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.

Easily forgotten

Boring

Upper-class toff with refined virtues escaping attention (wordplay)

Not pleasant to taste

PLAUSIBLE Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

Too sensitive to publicize, maybe

Too shocking to be published

Like obscenities in family newspapers

REACHABLE Being within reach.

REMOVABLE Admitting of being removed.

Impossible to offend

Awful, as unpronounceable (wordplay)

Too awful to express in words

Too bad for words

Like a juggernaut

Upcoming Denzel Washington film

Having irresistible momentum

Mired in ignorance

Incapable of being considered

Out of the question

Too unlikely to consider

Caste recently abolished

Not able to be affected

International organisation's chart about ethnic grouping's vanished

An out-and-out I can't say it!

Dire (beyond words?)

Beyond words

Inflected form of WATCHABLE Inflected form of WATCH to keep in view

UPGRADE to raise to a higher standard

Unable to agree sandwich is distasteful

Not satisfactory

Not allowable

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

ANALYZABLE That may be analyzed.

Irrefutable

""Not appealable; that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal; as, an unappealable suit or action. as, an unappealable suit or action.""

APPEASABLE Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.

Cant get over this cant be attacked

Unable to be attacked

Allies ban USA's renegotiation as being out of reach

Not able to be reached

Out of reach

Not to be reached

Impossible to credit

Far-fetched

Incredible

Adjective (-able)

BREATHABLE Such as can be breathed.

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

Adjective (-able)

Immutable

Each tribunal prepared to be cruel

Unethical bar cocktail is mean

Lacking generosity

CULTIVABLE Capable of being cultivated or tilled.

Fickle, as hangers-on are not

Not able to be identified

Indigestible.

Indisputable.

Blame puny Leo, perhaps, for not being able to find work

Too profound to grasp

Incapable of being fully understood

A humble fan to be moved, too deep for words

Big foul raven could be allowed no excuses

Impossible to control

Impossible to comprehend

Impossible to conceive

Staggering university graduate with two drinks, hugging bachelor

Inflected form of LISTENABLE Inflected form of LISTEN to try to hear

Hard to control

Impossible to control

Recalcitrant

Not sellable

Immeasurable.

Not confusable with anything else

Make Istanbul out to be distinctive

Clear - obvious

""NEGOTIABLE Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.""

Not easily observed

OBSERVABLE Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable.

OBTAINABLE Capable of being obtained.

That cannot be forgiven

Impossible to forgive

PATENTABLE Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

Not beneficial

A French master's story about sex is useless

Inextinguishable; unsatisfiable

REALIZABLE Capable of being realized.

That's irrational, dear

Beyond acceptable limits

Beano's unreal, mad, far-fetched

Inflected form of RECYCLABLE Inflected form of RECYCLE to process waste materials

""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.""

Not particularly surprising

Real number around about a thousand, back as standard

Too shocking to be said again

No encore for such a performance? That's gross!

""RESOLVABLE Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties. as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.""

Not to be taken back

REVIEWABLE Capable of being reviewed.

Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.

Odd for the time of year

*Like Indian summer weather

Unusual for the time of year

VERIFIABLE Capable of being verified; confirmable.

RELIABLE one that can be relied on

Unable to be explained

That cannot be explained

One can't have the knowhow

""ASSIMILABLE That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.""

Adjective (-able)

COLLECTIBLE Capable of being collected.

Awkward - not conducive to relaxing

Not at ease

Ill at ease