2-Letter Words Starting with U

Uranography

Urbanisation

Urbanization

Urbanologist

A reddish spore that is produced in the uredinium of a rust fungus and that spreads to and infects other host plants.

Ubiquitous

Ultimateness

Law 1. (Law) a principle of inheritance whereby the youngest son succeeds to the estate of his ancestor Compare primogeniture

CIVILIZED civilize

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.

ULTRAMICRO

""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.""

""The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism. Gallicanism.""

""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

Ultrarightist

Ultraroyalist

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

ULTRASONIC

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.""

""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

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

Unassuming

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

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

CHAUVINISTIC fanatically patriotic.

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

CLASSIFIABLE Capable of being classified.

Uncollectible

""COMMUNICABLE Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.""

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

CONTRADICTED contradict

Free in one's ways

Free and easy.

Alternative place for sisters in harmony by a lake

Unconvincing

CREDENTIALED credential

CRYSTALLIZED smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

DECIDABILITY

""DECIPHERABLE Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

Undeniable

Underachiever

ACHIEVING achieve

Undercarriage

Underclothing

""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

""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

Underreport

Understaffing

STANDINGS standing

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.""

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.

ENLIGHTENING enlighten

Not showing initiative

Apathetic flipping nuisance! Shut it!

Cool cuties hit annus horribilis

Showing no interest

Unfaithful

""Persistently calm, whether when facing difficulties or experiencing success; not easily upset or excited.""

Unflattering

Personal hostility

Unfruitful

Ungainliness

Ungenerosity

Ungracious

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.

""Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.""

ILLUMINATING Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

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

""INGRATIATING capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.""

""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

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.""

PALATABILITY Palatableness.

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

Not of the expected standard of work

One is not paid for such conduct

The amateur plainness of our production

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.

Unresponsive

In a non-limiting manner

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

Unseemliness

Unskillful

Unsociable

""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

Unsurprising

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

Impossible to imagine; inconceivable: an unthinkable amount of money.

Untimeliness

Not to be touched.

Unwieldiness

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)

Upstanding

URBANISTIC

Urediniospore

Usufructuary

Usuriousness

Philosophical doctrine

Millian reason

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.""

Like neat freaks

FILTRATION The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

ULTRALIBERAL

""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

Ultramontanism

Plural noun (-sions)

Ultravirility

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Far from obliging

Goad communicant after Reformation, unlike 9 and 22

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Unanticipated

Unappreciation

Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable: unassailable truths.

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

UNCERTAINNESS uncertain

CHANGEABILITY Changeableness.

""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