2-Letter Words Starting with U

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

Uniformness

Stolid, somewhat dull

Lacking any creativity

Lacking in mental creativity

Collected pain? One ends sumo wrestling!

Beyond doubt or reproach

President's favorite ice cream flavor (wordplay)

Beyond reproach

""UNIMPEACHABLE Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony.""

Providing no useful knowledge

Revealing little

Lacking information

Not suitable for living in

Uninhibited

""INSTRUCTIVE Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.""

Lacking wit

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

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

Not done on purpose

Accidental

Not meant

Not arousing curiosity

Various units entering flat

Dull, boring

Continuous

Constant return generated a little money to feed one side of Manchester

Continual

INTIMIDATED made timid or fearful as by threats.

Unionisation

Unionization

Uniparental

Unitarianism

Universalism

Universalist

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

Universalize

The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Can't be defended, having no grounds

Indefensible

JUSTIFIABLY

""Impossible to know, especially being beyond the range of human experience or understanding: the unknowable mysteries of life.""

Unlikelihood

Unluckiness

Unmalicious

""Inflected form of MANIPULATED Inflected form of MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Unmanliness

Forbidden as a topic of conversation

Scandalous, man on tube line flashing

Indecent playing alone in tub embracing blokes

Inflected form of METABOLIZED Inflected form of METABOLIZE To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Unmitigated

Unnatural

Canines surely unleashed for nothing

That gets in the way of the start of 36 across

Unnilpentium

Unnilquadium

So as not to attract attention

Unorthodoxy

Inflected form of PARASITIZED Inflected form of PARASITIZE

Inflected form of PASTEURIZED Inflected form of PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

""PERFORMABLE Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

""PICTURESQUE Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.""

Never known before

Like never before

Never before known or experienced

Not capable of being foretold

Sadly date Republican without a chance

Toss caber. Upend it holding length up in the air

Inflected form of PREDICTABLY Inflected form of PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Inflected form of PRESSURIZED Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

Without airs and graces

Simple routine upset about including new start

Understated

*Not about to raise eyebrows

Straightforward

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Unpromising

PUBLISHABLE Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

""PUNCTUALITY The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.""

Unqualified

Not expressing doubt

Unquietness

Unreadiness

Unreasoning

RECLAIMABLE That may be reclaimed.

""RECOVERABLE Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable. as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.""

Unrelenting

RELIABILITY The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

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

Unremitting

Unrepentant

REPRESENTED represent

""RESPECTABLE Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen. as, a respectable citizen.""

Unrighteous

Inflected form of SALVAGEABLE Inflected form of SALVAGEE done in whose favor salvage has been effected

Unselective

Unselfish

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

Showing no tender emotions

Not given to excessively tender emotions

Eschewing tender emotions

Unserious

Not in working order

Error in cube reveals it to be of no use

The quality or state of being unsettled.

Unsettlement

SIGHTLINESS The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

Unsoundness

""Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism.""

SPECIFIABLE Admitting specification; capable of being specified.

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

SUITABILITY The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Incapable of being defended

Not able to be tolerated

Not able to be bettered

""SUSCEPTIBLE Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.""

""SUSTAINABLE Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable. as, the action is not sustainable.""

Clumsy minaret flawed because it's this

Not having matching parts either side of an axis

Lacking compassion

Without compassion

Not likeable

""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.""

THREATENING threaten

""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.""

Not changed

Not to be relied on

Not to be believed

Not to be relied upon

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

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

Certain students.

Uprightness

Uptightness

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.

Uselessness

Ubiquitous

Ultimateness

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

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

Ultramarathon

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

""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.""

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

""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

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.""

""Inflected form of UNAPPROACHABLE Inflected form of 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.

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

Unchasteness

CHAUVINISTIC fanatically patriotic.

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

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

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

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

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

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