2-Letter Words Starting with U

Waiters in the wings

They don't start

They take part in emergencies

Teasing drunk about responsibilities

Short of cash receipts for tasks

Enterprises giving less profits (wordplay)

""UTILIZE to make use of, also UTILISE""

VALUING value

Underweight

Underwriter

""The business of an underwriter,""

Criminal went with ID, return guaranteed

Subscribed and accepted financial responsibility

Accepted financial responsibility for being subscribed (wordplay)

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Objectionable people

Up in the air

Indigestible.

Relentless action leads to a foreign policeman finding car by outhouse

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Not relieved of bankruptcy

Yet to be found

Indisputable.

DISTRACTED distract

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

Inflected form of DUPLICATED Inflected form of DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

Uneasiness

""ECOLOGICAL of or pertaining to ecology; as, an ecological disaster.as, an ecological disaster.""

Wasteful of money

Lossmaking

EMBITTERED embitter

Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive.

Unfairness

In a betraying way

Unfamiliar

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

Unflagging

FLATTERING flatter

Big foul raven could be allowed no excuses

Unfruitful

The state or quality of being ungainly; awkwardness.

GENEROSITY Noble birth.

GENTRIFIED gentrify

""Inflected form of GERMINATED Inflected form of GERMINATE To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.""

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Ungracious

Unharness

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

Showing no doubt

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

Unholiness

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Unicameral

Not recognised

Mysterious affair seen briefly coming over in profundity (wordplay)

Unification

UNIFOLIOLATE

Uniformity

In a one sided way

University making delayed recovery on its own

50 per cent of unions delayed protest, not acting with others

ILLUSIONED under an illusion

Impossible to comprehend

Impossible to conceive

Staggering university graduate with two drinks, hugging bachelor

Inflected form of IMAGINABLY Inflected form of IMAGINE to form a mental picture of

""IMPRESSIVE Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.""

Not affected (by)

""Inflected form of INOCULATED Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

INSTRUCTED instruct

INTEGRATED Formed or united into a whole.

Bored teen isn't rude, surprisingly

Having no care in knowing

Apathetic rude teen isn't misbehaving

False insinuation containing zero evidence of workplace activism

""IONIZATION the process of converting neutral atoms or molecules into ions. The process may occur by dissolving an ionic substance in a dissociating solvent, such as water, or by adding or subtracting an electron to or from an atom or molecule. The latter process occurs, for example, in an electron beam in a mass spectrometer and by interaction of substances with ionizing radiation.ionizing radiation.""

Uniqueness

""Inflected form of IRONICALLY Inflected form of IRONICAL pertaining to irony, also IRONIC""

Inflected form of IRRADIATED Inflected form of IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

""UNISEXUAL Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di&oe;cious; distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di&oe;cious. bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di&oe;cious.""

Religious doctrine

Narnia? Um, is it about Christian doctrine (wordplay)

A single heretical principle? (Defended by Priestley)

Unitization

""The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.""

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

Applicability to all cases

Film studio finds it with unknown quantity existing everywhere

To make universal; to generalize.

Harvard and MIT, for example

Gorky claimed these seats of learning

Clemson and others

Unkennel

Unkindness.

Unkindness

Absence of likelihood.

The quality or state of being unlikely.

Unlikeness

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

LOVELINESS The state or quality of being lovely.

Not mechanized.

Without letup

Not confusable with anything else

Make Istanbul out to be distinctive

Clear - obvious

Inflected form of MISTAKABLY Inflected form of MISTAKE to interpret wrongly

Inflected form of MODERNIZED Inflected form of MODERNIZE To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Unmorality

""Inflected form of MYELINATED Inflected form of MYELINE a fatty substance that covers certain nerve fibres, also MYELIN""

""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.""

Unnilhexium

See dubnium .

See rutherfordium .

Not easily observed

NOURISHING nourish

OBTAINABLE Capable of being obtained.

Not in an authorised manner

PERCEPTIVE Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

Not convincing

Lack of mass appeal

A low approval rating indicates it

Great lack of appeal

Free from bias

Not biased

Unbiased

PRETENDING pretend

Having no morals

Lacking moral scruples

Lacking integrity

""PRIVILEGED Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.""

Sterile

Not beneficial

A French master's story about sex is useless

Inflected form of PROFITABLY Inflected form of PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Boding ill

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

Fully accepted.

Beyond doubt

Not challenged

REALIZABLE Capable of being realized.

RECOGNIZED

Not brought together

Not like the Mirror? I don't think so

Off the record, international body had an impact

Buckled under, skirting main point, before being off the record

REINFORCED

Unrelieved

Not reacting to stimuli

Cool prison venues to be redesigned

Not answering

Rampant disorder was rampant, say

Dreariest nun can be wild!

Not tied up

Unrestraint

Accessible to all

Not limited

Accessible to all reproducing red tinctures

REVIEWABLE Capable of being reviewed.

""RHETORICAL Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.""

Unripeness

Unruliness

Not approved

Star loses the head, is supported and isn't punished

Not rigorously investigated

Not systematic or methodical in thought

Lacking a satisfactory analytical process

Man rings club members - that's the procedure with clues like this

""SCRIPTURAL Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine. as, a scriptural doctrine.""

The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness.

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Unsettling

SIGHTLIEST sightly

Unskillful

Shakiness; lack of regularity

Shaky state

Shakiness

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

In a very generous manner

Unstopper

""Not stratified; applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.""

""Inflected form of SUBSIDIZED Inflected form of SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

Not overseen

SURPRISING surprise

Not aware of danger

Not aware of present danger

Off guard, trustful

SUSPICIOUS Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Not methodical

Lacking method

Not ordered

TENABILITY The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

By implication, fat royal without consideration

Untidiness

Unseasonableness.

""Inflected form of VACCINATED Inflected form of VACCINATE To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.""

""Inflected form of VENTILATED Inflected form of VENTILATE To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine. as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.""

Inflected form of VERBALIZED Inflected form of VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

VERIFIABLE Capable of being verified; confirmable.

Unwariness

Unwavering

WIELDINESS

WORTHINESS The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

Unyielding

Upholstery

Covering furniture

Uppercut

Uppishness

Uppitiness

Uppityness

Uproarious

Process of becoming more built-up

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

Urbanology

A sociologist who specializes in the problems of cities and urban life.

Urediospore

Plural or third person singular

Urethritis

Uricotelism

""Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal. as, the urinogenital canal.""

Plural or third person singular

A diseased condition resulting from the formation of calculi in the urinary tract.

USURIOUS practicing usury

Utilitarian

Utilization

UXORIOUS excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife

Uglification

CAUTIOUS exercising prudence

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DISTANCE to move far from a particular point

FAMILIAR a close friend or associate

FEMININE the female sex or nature

FILTRATE to {filter=v}

Ultraleftism

Ultraleftist

Ultraliberal

MILITANT a person who takes active part in a struggle

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Ultraradical

ULTRARARE

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

Ultrarealism

Ultrarealist

RELIABLE one that can be relied on

RIGHTIST an advocate of {rightism=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person