2-Letter Words Starting with U

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.""

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

Unassuming

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

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

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

""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

""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

Free in one's ways

Free and easy.

Alternative place for sisters in harmony by a lake

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.""

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

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

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.

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.""

If this is it you won't get it

Impossible to understand

""INTELLIGIBLY In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly. as, to write or speak intelligibly.""

Unisexuality

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

Universality

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

Unkindliness

Unlawfulness

Unlikeliness

Unloveliness

MANNERLINESS The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.

Lingerie nobleman unties perhaps

Underwear shot not seen in album

Riddle's answer

""OSTENTATIOUS Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.""

Unpleasant

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

Unprepared

Not of the expected standard of work

One is not paid for such conduct

The amateur plainness of our production

""Inflected form of PROGRAMMABLE Inflected form of PROGRAMME That which is written or printed as a public notice or advertisement; a scheme; a prospectus; especially, a brief outline or explanation of the order to be pursued, or the subjects embraced, in any public exercise, performance, or entertainment; a preliminary sketch.""

QUANTIFIABLE

""Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. as, an unquestionable title.""

Surely search in combination with skill

Start of a quote by H.L. Mencken

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.""

Inflected form of REFRIGERATED Inflected form of REFRIGERATE To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

Unregenerate

Unreserved

Unresponsive

In a non-limiting manner

Inflected form of ROMANTICIZED Inflected form of ROMANTICIZE

Unseemliness

Unskillful

Unsociable

Unstableness

""Inflected form of STANDARDIZED Inflected form of STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Unsteadiness

Unsuccessful

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

""Inflected form of SYSTEMATIZED Inflected form of SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

Untenability

Untimeliness

Untowardness

""TRANSLATABLE Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.""

Untruthful

Unwashedness

Unwieldiness

Unwontedness

Unworthiness

The act or an instance of upgrading.

Very funny behaviour

High jinks

Is our pub's reason for disorder showing no end of hubbub this (wordplay)

Uprootedness

Upstanding

Urediniospore

Usufructuary

Usuriousness

Uxoriousness

Ultimogeniture

""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.""

ULTRALIBERAL

Ultramarathon

""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

Ultramodernist

Plural noun (-sions)

Ultrastructure

Ultravirility

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Unadulterated

Unalterable

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Unanticipated

Unappreciation

BOUNDEDNESSES boundedness

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

UNCERTAINNESS uncertain

CHALLENGEABLE That may be challenged.

CHANGEABILITY Changeableness.

CHOREOGRAPHED choreograph

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.

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 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

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