2-Letter Words Starting with U

Unionization

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

Unlikelihood

Unmalicious

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.

So as not to attract attention

Unorthodoxy

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

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

Not expressing doubt

Unreasoning

""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.""

Unrighteous

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

Unserious

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

Unsoundness

Incapable of being defended

Not able to be tolerated

""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.""

Not changed

Not to be relied on

Not to be believed

Not to be relied upon

Unwholesome

WORKABILITY

Naivety worsens in dull position

Lack of sophistication

Naivety

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.

Urethroscope

Ubiquitous

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.

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

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Ultramarathon

MICROTOME An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.

ULTRAMICRO

""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.""

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

Ultraroyalist

ULTRASONIC

Ultraviolence

Umbrageous

""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.""

Unaccustomed

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

""AFFECTIONATE Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. as, an affectionate brother.""

""APPRECIATION A just valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.""

""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.

Unbecoming

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

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

Unctuousness

Underclothing

(Of a country) not economically advanced

Like dark pictures of the Third World

Like a picture that comes out badly scrawny

Underexposure

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.""

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Run a novel audit producing assessment that's too low

""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

Ungenerosity

Ungracious

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.""

INCORPORATED United in one body; formed into a corporation; made a legal entity.

Unloveliness

Lingerie nobleman unties perhaps

Underwear shot not seen in album

Riddle's answer

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

Unpopularity

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.""

""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.""

Unresponsive

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

Unsociable

Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZED Inflected form of SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

Not to be touched.

Untowardness

Unwontedness

Unworthiness

Very funny behaviour

High jinks

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

Uprootedness

Urediniospore

Usuriousness

Uxoriousness

Ultimogeniture

""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.

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

Far from obliging

Goad communicant after Reformation, unlike 9 and 22

Unappreciation

BOUNDEDNESSES boundedness

Adjective (-able)

With abruptness

Without formalities

Abruptly

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

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

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

Wrongly mistreated union valuation that falls short

Underinflation

Undernutrition

Below full capacity

Quota-shy output

Assigned prices that are too low

EMPLOYABILITY

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.""

Unfavorable

Unforgiving

FOSSILIFEROUS Containing or composed of fossils.

Uniformitarian

Uninformative

Aimlessly; without purpose

How beans are usually spilled

Without premeditation.

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

""OBJECTIONABLE Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. as, objectionable words.""

With doubly posh fellow other virtues point to modesty

Modesty.

Not appealing to the eye

Nondescript

Modest

Unpretentious

Unprofessional

Impossible to say properly

Hard to say

Non-European club reformed? It's impossible to say

United Nations quiz in long yard unconditionally

RECONSTRUCTED reconstruct

""REVOLUTIONARY Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators.""

Failure to adhere to moral principles

SERIOUSNESSES seriousness

Unsociability

Rough seduction is path to clash

Less than urbane

Homespun Ian, Scottish dupe led astray

Kind of conduct penalized in football

"Conduct" penalized in football

Conduct penalized in football

Untraditional

Unworkability

Unworldliness