2-Letter Words Starting with U

Lacking a renter

Without a tenant

Like a vacant rental apartment

Like failed Kickstarters

Yet to be fulfilled

Like some lofty expectations

Not yet mounted, as a gem

Not mounted as stones

Loose, as a diamond.

Loss by say

Bracket buster, perhaps

In tears perhaps

Start to take off one's pants, say

Remove one's holster

Remove the cincture.

Not crooked, as a bar

Straightened up and relaxed

Became less formal.

Like a mild earthquake, maybe

Like quakes of magnitude 2.0 or less

Like a magnitude 1.0 quake

""Not known or recognized, also UNKENNED, UNKEND""

Broken, as promises

Forgotten, as a promise

Neglected, as a lawn

Not fitting

Not seemly

Not becoming

No longer cooped up

Not torn

Fidgety Disrupt album (wordplay)

Prelude to riots, perhaps

What revolting behaviour!

Beat in November, perhaps

Remove from horse (or house?)

Take to the floor (wordplay)

Not mailed, say

In a Mail Recovery Center, say

Like mail in a draft folder

Not vexed

Not mourned (for)

Broken up, went unlamented

Favourable pub cooking - tuck in!

Gung-ho in favour of Garda route

Optimistic (colloq.)

Upsend

Pressing Foreigner smash (wordplay)

Deserving a "stat"

Earnest old city man

Root work (wordplay)

Composition's original form

Composition's original libretto

Most unfair (wordplay)

Most sin-like (wordplay)

Like a prize-winning witch's costume

Wretched bun cooked in case

Wretched (archaic)

Undress

Salve or ointment

A gun with a tune put on outside

Lubricant to tune gun

(Of hair) needing a comb (wordplay)

Shabby trunk emptied contents

Blowing in the wind, as hair

Accidental in tune man orchestrated

Not deliberate

Not intentional

Characterized by disorder

Disturbed and restless

Not peaceful

Still in the bank

Not used up

Left over, as money

In need of a broom

In need of cleaning

Like dirty floors

Upleap

Not resting on the shoulders, say

Like a height-enhancing hairdo

Like some hairdos

A small {umbel=n}

To uncover the head

Opposite of ham it up (wordplay)

Just walk through a role, say

Perform with subtlety

Offer a better price than (a competitor)

Charge less than (a competitor)

Sell for less than (rival)

Crash diet, maybe

Not get enough

Consume too little

Genus of perennials comprising the avens

Lacking adequate light

Put beneath for support

Insufficiently filled, as a printed page

Prop or support.

Not devout

Not thought of in bed (wordplay)

Never even in fancy.

Beyond the imagination (of).

Lacking specific skills

Most special

Like forgotten knowledge

Like discarded habits

Not yet acquired, as knowledge

Unripe

Not silent

Untrue

To reduce the weight of

Most imprudent

Least sagacious

Superior tram (wordplay)

Quality, prestige (commodities)

High-end not down for sale

Jaw breaker (wordplay)

Part of the shoe damaged? Blow!

Drug reduced, might that hurt (wordplay)

Most refined and sophisticated

Most refined

Most suave

HEAT to make {hot=adj}

LEFT the left side or hand

""Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes. as, uncurrent notes.""

The first layer of paint

Such P ain't on top

If it's put there's no finish ot it

Downtrodden like Old Labour (wordplay)

Butcher often dour and in the way

In the way

GIRT to {gird=v}

""Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.""

Belly there but no bellow from it

Subordinate role.

Where secondary characters are ?buried

Sign lost from pound sterling - nasty trick!

Too much jaw coming out like this

Came in short of runway.

Not fired enough in the jaw

Experienced a Parisian river

Did not go enough and suffered for it

Didn't go enough to have endured this

Most in malaise

Least comfortable

Most restless.

Uneven

Unfair

Most impious.

Like Na+ or Cl-, in NaCl

Unpaired, as a chromosome

Some drunk in destitution is most cruel

Least nicest

To mar or destroy the perfection of.

Most disorderly

Most cantankerous.

It's United playing in the most chaos

In order to be the least

Unwarie

Support me, perhaps, to get to top

Support me being on top

Superlatively at the top

Get a head to trap rep, perhaps

Paramount, say the majority

No-one can have more to say, absolutely

Very talkative? Absolutely!

QUIET to {silence=v}

AFFLUENT a stream that flows into another

APPARENT an heir-apparent

Nice suntan all over? Most weird!

Most unsettling and eerie

Most astonishing

Unclean

Unclear

DECADENT one in a state or moral decay

COUNT to {number=v}

Crypt of a church

Crypt

REACT to respond to a stimulus

Where part of this is

What Brits call a "singlet"

What often lies beneath a jumper

Aim too short

Junior to avoid such a slip

Petticoat, of a sort

It's where the lady puts her slip

""The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded.""

Ungodly

Unhandy

Most down

Uniform

Drab condition

Least happy, in Vegas

Nasty claims lodged by a French worker

Hostile sun a planet goes round

Like surprises you'd rather not get

PREGNANT carrying a developing fetus in the uterus

Unquiet

Unready

Unsound

Unstable

Cloaked item for C. I. A.

Like some military installations

Type of radiation

Beyond the visible spectrum

Kind of radiation or light

ABSORBENT Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Not recognised

New bunks not damaged? Not to anyone's knowledge

Uncommon

Underbuy

REPORT to give an account of

Lessee's lessee

THRUST to push forcibly

Prepared to drug the wine - it's thin!

Too thin (wordplay)

Relatively light

Ungain

Most unsympathetic

Least probable

Unlovely

RELUCTANT Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.

Showing no regret for one's sins

Hardly remorseful

RESISTANT Making resistance; resisting.

Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.

Unseemly

Unsteady

Untimely

Unwieldy

Least deserving

LEFTIST an advocate of {leftism=n}

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

VIOLENT to {force=v}

AMBIVALENT undecided as to whether or not to take a proposed course of action; having feelings both for and against the proposed action.

""COMPLACENT Selfsatisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.""

Flounder currently holding tidal flow

Hidden significance of words or actions

Flow hidden beneath surface

Pants perhaps turned German off

What exactly is a brief?

What exactly is a brief (wordplay)

See underlay 1 .

Manner deputy arranged partial settlement

Work out clue to depression (wordplay)

A symptom of depression (wordplay)

State of being out of work

A foreign fitness centre? Radical and best starting off for the most unfit!

One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.

""The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance.""

SIGHTLIEST sightly

BELLIGERENT Waging war; carrying on war.

Lacking wit

Loveless marriage, say, with one bloke? That's foolish

Stupid group of workers, none the less, report information in it

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

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

""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.""

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

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

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

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

""INVESTMENT The act of investing, or the state of being invested.""

Failure to achieve full potential

Lack of full growth

Malnutrition