2-Letter Words Starting with U

""COURAGEOUS Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.""

""Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract.""

UNCTUOUS {greasy=adj}

Undecillion

DECOMPOSED Separated or broken up; said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

""DEFOLIATED Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.""

Power failure without show of hands

Organisation is not despotic or totalitarian

Curt comedian abandoned without popular support

Boxer's briefs (wordplay)

Briefs a number of boxers

Garments worn next to the skin

Undercoat

Undercool

Undercount

Given too little light

Underexpose

Units of resistance, often charged up?

Units of resistance, often charged up (wordplay)

Undergrowth

Lacking sufficient oomph

Underreport

Emphasising what a consistently poor batsman is doing (wordplay)

Putting emphasis on not getting enough runs (wordplay)

Understory

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Yet to be found

DOCUMENTED document

""ECOLOGICAL of or pertaining to ecology; as, an ecological disaster.as, an ecological disaster.""

Wasteful of money

Lossmaking

Blame puny Leo, perhaps, for not being able to find work

Work out clue to depression (wordplay)

A symptom of depression (wordplay)

State of being out of work

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

Too profound to grasp

Incapable of being fully understood

A humble fan to be moved, too deep for words

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

Big foul raven could be allowed no excuses

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Unfortunate

GENEROSITY Noble birth.

In an ungenerous manner.

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Impossible to control

Ungracious

Unhandsome

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

Unholiness

Inflected form of HYDROLYZED Inflected form of HYDROLYZE

Unification

UNIFOLIOLATE

Uniformity

ILLUSIONED under an illusion

""Inflected form of INOCULATED Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

False insinuation containing zero evidence of workplace activism

""IONIZATION the process of converting neutral atoms or molecules into ions. The process may occur by dissolving an ionic substance in a dissociating solvent, such as water, or by adding or subtracting an electron to or from an atom or molecule. The latter process occurs, for example, in an electron beam in a mass spectrometer and by interaction of substances with ionizing radiation.ionizing radiation.""

""Inflected form of IRONICALLY Inflected form of IRONICAL pertaining to irony, also IRONIC""

Unitization

Absence of likelihood.

LOVELINESS The state or quality of being lovely.

Inflected form of MODERNIZED Inflected form of MODERNIZE To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.

Unmorality

""NEGOTIABLE Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.""

""NEWSWORTHY Sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper; as, a dog biting a man is not a newsworthy item.as, a dog biting a man is not a newsworthy item.""

Not easily observed

NOURISHING nourish

OBSERVABLE Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable.

OBSTRUCTED obstruct

OBTAINABLE Capable of being obtained.

Not in an authorised manner

Simple switch turned on to receive call

Unorthodox

""Inflected form of OXYGENATED Inflected form of OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

That cannot be forgiven

Impossible to forgive

Lack of mass appeal

A low approval rating indicates it

Great lack of appeal

Sterile

Not beneficial

A French master's story about sex is useless

Inflected form of PROFITABLY Inflected form of PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

PROGRAMMED program

PRONOUNCED Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.

Boding ill

PROSPEROUS Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.

Fully accepted.

Beyond doubt

Not challenged

That's irrational, dear

Beyond acceptable limits

Beano's unreal, mad, far-fetched

REASONABLY In a reasonable manner.

RECOGNIZED

Not brought together

REINFORCED

""RESOLVABLE Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties. as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.""

Not reacting to stimuli

Cool prison venues to be redesigned

Not answering

""RHETORICAL Of or pertaining to rhetoric; according to, or exhibiting, rhetoric; oratorical; as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish. as, the rhetorical art; a rhetorical treatise; a rhetorical flourish.""

Not approved

Star loses the head, is supported and isn't punished

Lacking moral principles.

Devoid of moral principles

Corrupt organisation can be ethical

Odd for the time of year

*Like Indian summer weather

Unusual for the time of year

Inflected form of SEASONABLY Inflected form of SEASON to improve flavour

Unstopper

SUSPICIOUS Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof.

Part of an important global problem

Korn's current album

TOWARDNESS Quality or state of being toward.

WONTEDNESS The quality or state of being accustomed.

WORTHINESS The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

They restore plush to order

Upholstery

Covering furniture

Uproarious

UPROOTED uproot

Process of becoming more built-up

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

Urbanology

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

Urediospore

An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.

Uricotelism

""Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal. as, the urinogenital canal.""

Urochordate

Plural or third person singular

A diseased condition resulting from the formation of calculi in the urinary tract.

USURIOUS practicing usury

Utilization

UXORIOUS excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife

Uglification

CAUTIOUS exercising prudence

A helluva Netflix binge (wordplay)

Ultramontane

ORTHODOX one who holds traditional beliefs

POWERFUL full of power

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

ROYALIST a supporter of a monarch or monarchy

VIOLENCE a violent action

Producing umbels.

Umbilication

Without escort

University professor's first to enter non-academic building alone

Alone

Unable to be explained

That cannot be explained

One can't have the knowhow

ACCOUNTABLY In an accountable manner.

More the stay-at-home type

1-0 Man U, ugly sub after change leaving no doubt

Inflected form of APOLOGIZING Inflected form of APOLOGIZE To make an apology or defense.

Unbounded

""Inflected form of BOWDLERIZED Inflected form of BOWDLERIZE To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.""

Without due formalities

Forgoing formality

Informal

""Inflected form of CHLORINATED Inflected form of CHLORINATE To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.""

COLLECTIBLE Capable of being collected.

Awkward - not conducive to relaxing

Not at ease

Ill at ease

Inflected form of COMFORTABLY Inflected form of COMFORT to {console=v}

Not reimbursed

Disinclined to go up against others

(Of prices) higher than others

Not marketable enough

Stoical

Clear a Parisian complex

Straightforward

Simple

Inconceivable.

CONCERNEDLY In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

Without any ifs or buts

Under all circumstances

With no strings attached

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming.

Inflected form of CONFORMABLY Inflected form of CONFORM to {comply=v}

Invincible

UNCONQUERABLE Not conquerable; indomitable.

Unconscious

Not no wing, by the sound of it

Not hallowed

Not limited

At liberty

A French prisoner's disciplined, but not locked up

Unconstraint

CONSTRICTED Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

CONSTRUCTED construct

Inflected form of CONSUMMATED Inflected form of CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

CONTAINABLE Capable of being contained or comprised.

CONTENTIOUS Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

Unwilling to get involved

Not willing to help

Not willing to help others

Badly organised

CORRECTABLE Capable of being corrected.

Uncouthness

Uncustomary

Where to look for vest (wordplay)

Invest in this

Old chuntering about lingerie

COATINGS coating

Undercount

Not used enough

Having too little work

Not fully made use of

EXPOSING expose

Fault of a dark picture

A giving of insufficient light to a photograph

Underground

Underreport

Undershoot

Inflected form of DIAGNOSABLE Inflected form of DIAGNOSE to identify a disease by symptoms

""Inflected form of DISCOURAGED Inflected form of DISCOURAGE To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.""

DISSOCIATED not connected or associated.

""DOCTRINAIRE One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. as, doctrinaire notions.""

Unemotional

Unemployable

Unemployment

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

(Of law) impossible to police

Adverb

With no ambiguity

Commonplace.

Usual

Not hot, not cool

Not popular

Not chic

FASHIONABLY In a fashionable manner.

Incapable of being foreseen.

Memorable number (wordplay)

Always remaining in the mind

Striking and elegant, but for pants ...

UNFORGETTABLE Not forgettable; enduring in memory.

Not giving information

Not willing to divulge information

Aloof

Your aunt felt badly about cousin's final letter, alas

Alas

Ungodliness

""HOMOGENIZED formed by blending unlike elements, especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance.""

IDEOLOGICAL Of or pertaining to ideology.

Uniformness

Collected pain? One ends sumo wrestling!

Providing no useful knowledge

Revealing little

Lacking information

Not done on purpose

Accidental

Not meant

Unionisation