2-Letter Words Starting with U

Nora Roberts book

Hidden feelings

Suggestions

Short on schooling

FINANCED finance

Underreact

Undersurface

DESCRIBABLE That can be described; capable of description.

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.""

DISSOCIATED not connected or associated.

""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.""

ELECTRIFIED

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

(Of law) impossible to police

Adverb

With no ambiguity

Commonplace.

Usual

Unflinching

Not giving information

Not willing to divulge information

Aloof

Not conforming to the rules of syntax

(Of a sentence) not correct

Linguistically flawed

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

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.""

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

Unluckiness

Unmalicious

Canines surely unleashed for nothing

That gets in the way of the start of 36 across

""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}

*Not about to raise eyebrows

Straightforward

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

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.""

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

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

Unselective

Not in working order

Error in cube reveals it to be of no use

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

""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

""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.""

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.""

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

Certain students.

Urethroscope

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.""

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

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

ULTRAMICRO

""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

ULTRASONIC

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

Ultraviolence

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.""

""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.""

Unattractive

Unbecoming

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

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.""

Underachiever

ACHIEVING achieve

Undercarriage

Underclothing

Ministry high-up

Office junior for leading civil servant

Government official needing to sort out nerdy creatures

""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.

Apathetic flipping nuisance! Shut it!

Cool cuties hit annus horribilis

Showing no interest

Unexpected

Ungracious

Unhysterical

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

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

""INTELLECTUAL Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.""

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

Unpredictable

Not possible to acknowledge unusually big nuclear zone

RECOGNIZABLY

""RECONCILABLE Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts.""

Unromantical

Inflected form of ROMANTICIZED Inflected form of ROMANTICIZE

Lousy and ill-fitting caftan? It's yours

Not good enough

Works holding up faulty units as not good enough

How chiselers behave

How double-dealers deal

Unsociable

Unsuccessful

Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZED Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Not to be touched.

URBANISTIC

Usufructuary

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

""COMMERCIAL Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. as, commercial advantages; commercial relations.""

CONVENIENT Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.

""DEMOCRATIC Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.""

""MICROSCOPE An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.""

Ultramicrotome

Plural noun (-sions)

ULTRASTRUCTURE

Ultrastructure

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Far from obliging

Goad communicant after Reformation, unlike 9 and 22

Unanticipated

Unappreciation

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

UNCERTAINNESS uncertain

CHALLENGEABLE That may be challenged.

CHANGEABILITY Changeableness.

CHOREOGRAPHED choreograph

""CHRONOLOGICAL Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables.as, chronological tables.""

Uncircumcision

Uncleanliness

Unclimbable

Unwilling to talk

Reserved; taciturn

Lacking transparency, like a so-called public inquiry (wordplay)

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Uncomplaining

Demeaning five vowels in reverse order (nonverbal)

Disparaging

Derogatory lie countryman concocted about politician

Showing no understanding

Unable to grasp or understand (something)

That cannot be compromised: uncompromisable honesty.

CONCERNEDNESS concerned

State of the possibilities (wordplay)

In a categorical way

With no restrictions

State after being coldcocked (and a clue to this puzzle's theme)

Acceptable for the masses, say

Not subject to dispute.

Commonly accepted

... that has no repeated letters

In the public domain

Like book titles and ingredient lists

Underactivity

Below full capacity

Quota-shy output

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

Beyond reproach

Cannot include offence that is ordinary enough

Inoffensive, lacking power to contain odd one out

""Inflected form of EXCEPTIONABLY Inflected form of EXCEPTION The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.""

""OBJECTIONABLE Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. as, objectionable words.""

Unprecedented

Impossible to say properly

Hard to say

Non-European club reformed? It's impossible to say

Unpunctuality

REALISTICALLY In the realistic manner.

RECONSTRUCTED reconstruct

Unsociability

Rough seduction is path to clash

Less than urbane

Homespun Ian, Scottish dupe led astray

Not symmetrically.