2-Letter Words Starting with U

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

Not hot, not cool

Not popular

Not chic

Unfeeling

Incapable of being foreseen.

Memorable number (wordplay)

Always remaining in the mind

Striking and elegant, but for pants ...

UNFORGETTABLE Not forgettable; enduring in memory.

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

Alas

1. not completed or achieved unfulfilled ambitions

GENTLEMANLY gentleman

Ungodliness

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.

Uniparental

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

Unlikelihood

Unluckiness

""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

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.""

PUBLISHABLE Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

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

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.

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

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

Not changed

Unusualness

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

Unwholesome

Reluctance

Naivety worsens in dull position

Lack of sophistication

Naivety

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

Certain students.

Uprightness

Uptightness

Uranography

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

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

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

""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.""

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

ULTRAREALIST

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

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