2-Letter Words Starting with U

Guard sauntered around with students

Students sauntered around having swallowed a drug naughtily

GROUNDERS grounder

""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

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

Ministry high-up

Office junior for leading civil servant

Government official needing to sort out nerdy creatures

Understaffing

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.""

STANDINGS standing

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

Understrapper

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

Uneventful

Unexpected

Unfaithful

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

Unflattering

Personal hostility

Unfruitful

Ungainliness

Ungenerosity

Ungracious

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.

""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

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

""OSTENTATIOUS Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.""

PALATABILITY Palatableness.

Unpleasant

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

Unprepared

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.""

Inflected form of REFRIGERATED Inflected form of REFRIGERATE To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

Unregenerate

Unreserved

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

How chiselers behave

How double-dealers deal

Unseemliness

Unskillful

Unsociable

Unstableness

""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

Unsuccessful

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.

Untowardness

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

Untruthful

Unwashedness

Unwieldiness

Unwontedness

Unworthiness

Very funny behaviour

High jinks

Is our pub's reason for disorder showing no end of hubbub this (wordplay)

Uprootedness

Upstanding

URBANISTIC

Urediniospore

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.""

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

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

Ultramarathon

Ultramodernist

Ultramontanism

Plural noun (-sions)

Inflected form of SONOGRAPHY Inflected form of SONOGRAPH

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Far from obliging

Goad communicant after Reformation, unlike 9 and 22

Unadulterated

Unalterable

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Unanticipated

Unappreciation

Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable: unassailable truths.

BOUNDEDNESSES boundedness

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

UNCERTAINNESS uncertain

CHALLENGEABLE That may be challenged.

CHANGEABILITY Changeableness.

CHOREOGRAPHED choreograph

""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

Demeaning five vowels in reverse order (nonverbal)

Disparaging

Derogatory lie countryman concocted about politician

Showing no understanding

Unable to grasp or understand (something)

That cannot be compromised: uncompromisable honesty.

CONCERNEDNESS concerned

State of the possibilities (wordplay)

In a categorical way

With no restrictions

State after being coldcocked (and a clue to this puzzle's theme)

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

Cool liquid in tremendous vat

Cold stew in tremendous vat

Restrained by veto, Iran must end badly

Underactivity

EMPHASIZED Having stress or emphasis.

Underemphasize

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

Not sufficiently concerned about

Wrongly mistreated union valuation that falls short

Double-dealer's trait

Deception

Underinflation

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

Undernutrition

Characteristic of slum children

Poor driver - I need plug changing

Like many slum children

Below full capacity

Quota-shy output

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.""

Minimizers of a sort

Some inferior representations

Some expressions of false humility

Assigned prices that are too low

Undesirable

Thing in use is dud, awfully mediocre

Ordinary, unexceptional

So-so

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.""

""EXTRAORDINARY Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.""

Unfamiliarity

Unfavorable

FEELINGNESSES feelingness

Unforgiving

FOSSILIFEROUS Containing or composed of fossils.

GUARDEDNESSES guardedness

Unhealthiness

Uniformitarian

Showing lack of creative thought

Uninformative

Uninhibited

Unintelligent

Aimlessly; without purpose

How beans are usually spilled

Without premeditation.

Uninterrupted

UNIVERSALNESS The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Unknowability

""KNOWLEDGEABLE thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience; as, knowledgeable in classical languages. Opposite of unversed, unacquainted, and unfamiliar.as, knowledgeable in classical languages. Opposite of unversed, unacquainted, and unfamiliar.""

Unmelodious

Unmitigated

NATURALNESSES naturalness