2-Letter Words Starting with U

Platoon, for one

Hawkeye's MASH, for one

Single item, maybe part of a set

Not likely (to)

Not likely to

Not fitting for a purpose

As a rough diamond (wordplay)

Rough as a diamond (wordplay)

Not censored say

All wrong (for)

Not working out (wordplay)

One claiming strong is weak (wordplay)

{ungotten=adj}

Lose the derby (wordplay)

Flip one's lid (wordplay)

Take it from the top (wordplay)

Lacking a renter

Without a tenant

Like a vacant rental apartment

Snuffed out, perhaps

Far from brilliant (wordplay)

Like some pilots in summer (wordplay)

Like failed Kickstarters

Yet to be fulfilled

Like some lofty expectations

Not yet mounted, as a gem

Not mounted as stones

Loose, as a diamond.

Derange, once

Drive crazy

Start to take off one's pants, say

Remove one's holster

Remove the cincture.

Not crooked, as a bar

Straightened up and relaxed

Became less formal.

Withdraw a lock

Open, as a barn door

Remove a fastener

Like a mild earthquake, maybe

Like quakes of magnitude 2.0 or less

Like a magnitude 1.0 quake

Unfix

With belt removed

Dam aged, no (wordplay)

O.K. to play, in a way

No harm done by Hun caught up in rut

Not fair or equitable

Barely a French one that's not right

Marked by partiality or deception

""Not known or recognized, also UNKENNED, UNKEND""

Broken, as promises

Forgotten, as a promise

Neglected, as a lawn

Smooth out (eyebrows)

Smooth out, as one's brow

Smooth out wrinkled brow

Loosen a French tie (wordplay)

Get loose (wordplay)

Remove a tangle

Not fitting

Not seemly

Not becoming

Pure: clipt form

No longer cooped up

Not torn

Fidgety Disrupt album (wordplay)

Prelude to riots, perhaps

What revolting behaviour!

Pull up

Eradicate

Beat in November, perhaps

Remove from horse (or house?)

Take to the floor (wordplay)

Not mailed, say

In a Mail Recovery Center, say

Like mail in a draft folder

Not closed, say door

Open local one's shed

Left open, as a door

Not vexed

Not mourned (for)

Broken up, went unlamented

Upsend

Pressing Foreigner smash (wordplay)

Deserving a "stat"

Earnest old city man

Howling like a dog or wolf

Wailing

Howling

Childish

Wretched bun cooked in case

Wretched (archaic)

Still not made

Not yet constructed

Still "well," but not beyond

Not damaged by the fire

Still 'well,' but not beyond

Undress

Salve or ointment

A gun with a tune put on outside

Lubricant to tune gun

Dislocate

(Of hair) needing a comb (wordplay)

Shabby trunk emptied contents

Blowing in the wind, as hair

Accidental in tune man orchestrated

Not deliberate

Not intentional

Straighten, as braided hair

Undo a braid.

Pull out, as braids

Characterized by disorder

Disturbed and restless

Not peaceful

To release the shift key on a typewriter

To prevent from seeing

Not smart

Still in the bank

Not used up

Left over, as money

Still in the glass, perhaps

Still in the glass

(Of fluid) not dropped

Not divided

Not hewn

In need of a broom

In need of cleaning

Like dirty floors

Tackle a cap

Open a loaf

Loosen, as a bottle cap

Frank prepared for punt (2-5)

Bold, frank (colloq.)

*"U" clue (wordplay)

To uncover the head

Not purchased

Not bright

Fugitive's status

Free tuition's ending in University College - anything to follow (wordplay)

Opposite of ham it up (wordplay)

Just walk through a role, say

Perform with subtlety

Offer a better price than (a competitor)

Charge less than (a competitor)

Sell for less than (rival)

Crash diet, maybe

Not get enough

Consume too little

Genus of perennials comprising the avens

Lacking adequate light

Put beneath for support

Insufficiently filled, as a printed page

Prop or support.

Not devout

Not thought of in bed (wordplay)

Never even in fancy.

Beyond the imagination (of).

Moving as in waves, sinuously

Rising and falling

Moving as in waves

Lacking specific skills

Not forgotten

Not fought

Teamster, for one

Norma Rae, for one

Lincoln, for one

Most special

A type of annuity trust

Like forgotten knowledge

Like discarded habits

Not yet acquired, as knowledge

Not pliant

Unripe

Not silent

Not looked for or desired

Not looked for

Not asked, you said nothing about son

Natural, not ruined

A Parisian ruined what was natural

Not impaired or ruined

Not in form, Ed (wordplay)

Not tutored or instructed

Not acquired by education

Untrue

To reduce the weight of

Most imprudent

Least sagacious

Most refined and sophisticated

Most refined

Most suave

Franciscan nun

Stinging

Incorrupt.

""Not current. Specifically: Not passing in common payment; not receivable at par or full value; as, uncurrent notes. as, uncurrent notes.""

The first layer of paint

Such P ain't on top

If it's put there's no finish ot it

Downtrodden like Old Labour (wordplay)

Butcher often dour and in the way

In the way

GIRT to {gird=v}

""Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition.""

Belly there but no bellow from it

Subordinate role.

Where secondary characters are ?buried

Sign lost from pound sterling - nasty trick!

Too much jaw coming out like this

Came in short of runway.

Not fired enough in the jaw

Experienced a Parisian river

Did not go enough and suffered for it

Didn't go enough to have endured this

Most in malaise

Least comfortable

Most restless.

Uneven

Unfair

Not chivalrous

Discourteous

Not very brave UN soldier, maybe, harbouring ill-will

Most impious.

Like Na+ or Cl-, in NaCl

Unpaired, as a chromosome

Some drunk in destitution is most cruel

Least nicest

To mar or destroy the perfection of.

Most disorderly

Most cantankerous.

Unthink

It's United playing in the most chaos

In order to be the least

Unwarie

AFFLUENT a stream that flows into another

APPARENT an heir-apparent

ARROGANT overbearing

Nice suntan all over? Most weird!

Most unsettling and eerie

Most astonishing

Unclean

Unclear

DECADENT one in a state or moral decay

COUNT to {number=v}

Crypt of a church

Crypt

REACT to respond to a stimulus

Where part of this is

What Brits call a "singlet"

What often lies beneath a jumper

Aim too short

Junior to avoid such a slip

Petticoat, of a sort

It's where the lady puts her slip

""The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded.""

Ungodly

Unhandy

Most down

One going round on his bike (wordplay)

Acrobat's lacy tunic is lacking a bust

Circus clown, sometimes

Uniform

Drab condition

Least happy, in Vegas

Nasty claims lodged by a French worker

Hostile sun a planet goes round

Like surprises you'd rather not get

PREGNANT carrying a developing fetus in the uterus

Unquiet

Unready

Unsound

Unstable

ABSORBENT Absorbing; swallowing; absorptive.

Not recognised

New bunks not damaged? Not to anyone's knowledge

""BRILLIANT Sparkling with luster; glittering; very bright; as, a brilliant star. as, a brilliant star.""

Uncommon

Underbuy

REPORT to give an account of

Lessee's lessee

THRUST to push forcibly

Prepared to drug the wine - it's thin!

Too thin (wordplay)

Relatively light

Ungain

Of little value or significance

Of little significance

Trivial printout man processed

Most unsympathetic

Least probable

Unlovely

RELUCTANT Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.

Showing no regret for one's sins

Hardly remorseful

RESISTANT Making resistance; resisting.

Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.

Unseemly

Unsteady

Untimely

Unwieldy

Least deserving

DISTANT far off or apart

VIOLENT to {force=v}

AMBIVALENT undecided as to whether or not to take a proposed course of action; having feelings both for and against the proposed action.

""COMPLACENT Selfsatisfied; contented; kindly; as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile. as, a complacent temper; a complacent smile.""

Freedom from constraint; ease.

Flounder currently holding tidal flow

Hidden significance of words or actions

Flow hidden beneath surface

Pants perhaps turned German off

What exactly is a brief?

What exactly is a brief (wordplay)

See underlay 1 .

Manner deputy arranged partial settlement

Work out clue to depression (wordplay)

A symptom of depression (wordplay)

State of being out of work

""FLAMBOYANT Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.""

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

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

""The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance.""

SIGHTLIEST sightly

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

MILITANT a person who takes active part in a struggle

BELLIGERENT Waging war; carrying on war.

Lacking wit

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

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

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

COMPETENT Answering to all requirements; adeqouate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.

""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.""

""MODERNIST One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.""

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

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

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

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

Failure to achieve full potential

Lack of full growth

Malnutrition