2-Letter Words Starting with U

""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.""

""TRADITIONAL Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures.""

Unusualness

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

""Inflected form of WARRANTABLY Inflected form of WARRANT to justify, also WARRAN, WARRAND""

Unwholesome

Reluctance

WORKABILITY

Naivety worsens in dull position

Lack of sophistication

Naivety

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Certain students.

Urbanologist

Uselessness

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

""Inflected form of GLAMOROUS Inflected form of GLAMOR to bewitch, also GLAMOUR""

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Ultramarathon

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

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

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.""

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

Unaccustomed

ACKNOWLEDGED Generally accepted or recognized as correct or reasonable. Opposite of unacknowledged.unacknowledged.

ALTERABILITY The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Unambivalent

Unappetizing

""APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

""Inflected form of UNAPPROACHABLE Inflected form of APPROACHABLE Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. as, approachable virtue.""

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

Unavailing

BUSINESSLIKE In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.

Unchivalrous

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.""

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.""

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.

Not open to regulation

Inflected form of CONTROLLABLY Inflected form of CONTROLE registered

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

Underclothing

(Of a country) not economically advanced

Like dark pictures of the Third World

Like a picture that comes out badly scrawny

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

With too few inhabitants

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.""

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.

DRAMATICALLY In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

EMPHATICALLY With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; pre\'89minently.

ENLIGHTENING enlighten

Uneventful

Unfaithful

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

Unflattering

Personal hostility

Unfruitful

Ungainliness

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.

ILLUMINATING Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

""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

PALATABILITY Palatableness.

Unpleasant

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

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.""

Unregenerate

Unresponsive

In a non-limiting manner

Unromantical

How chiselers behave

How double-dealers deal

Unseemliness

Unskillful

Unsociable

Unstableness

Unsuccessful

Unsurprising

Untenability

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

Untimeliness

Not to be touched.

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

Untruthful

Unwieldiness

The act or an instance of upgrading.

URBANISTIC

Philosophical doctrine

Millian reason

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

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

Ultramontanism

Plural noun (-sions)

Inflected form of SONOGRAPHY Inflected form of SONOGRAPH

ULTRASTRUCTURE

Ultrastructure

Ultravirility

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Unadulterated

Unalterable

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Unanticipated

Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable: unassailable truths.

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

CHALLENGEABLE That may be challenged.

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.""

Uncleanliness

Unclimbable

Uncomplaining

Demeaning five vowels in reverse order (nonverbal)

Disparaging

Derogatory lie countryman concocted about politician

That cannot be compromised: uncompromisable honesty.

State of the possibilities (wordplay)

In a categorical way

With no restrictions

Acceptable for the masses, say

Not subject to dispute.

Commonly accepted

... that has no repeated letters

In the public domain

Like book titles and ingredient lists

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

Underinflation

Characteristic of slum children

Poor driver - I need plug changing

Like many slum children

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

""In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.""

Assigned prices that are too low

Undesirable

DUTIFULNESSES dutifulness

Unearthliness

EMPLOYABILITY

Unendurable

Beyond reproach

Cannot include offence that is ordinary enough

Inoffensive, lacking power to contain odd one out

""Inflected form of EXCEPTIONABLY Inflected form of EXCEPTION The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.""