2-Letter Words Starting with U

Uredospore

Work up to Russian power grabs

Utopianism

COMPACT to pack closely together

PRECISE sharply and clearly defined or stated

Unable to agree sandwich is distasteful

Not satisfactory

Not allowable

ACCEPTABLY In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.

Far from contrite

Not expressing regret

Not sorry

""Not appealable; that can not be carried to a higher tribunal by appeal; as, an unappealable suit or action. as, an unappealable suit or action.""

APPEASABLE Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.

Inflected form of UNAPPEASABLE Inflected form of APPEASABLE Capable of being appeased or pacified; placable.

APPETIZING appetize

Adjective (-able)

Sans supervision (hidden celeb 3)

* Sans supervision

COMPELLING compel

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

COMPOUNDED compound

DECIPHERED decipher

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

Fickle, as hangers-on are not

Given too little light

Underexpose

Underlap

Manner deputy arranged partial settlement

Underpin

Underplay

Lacking sufficient oomph

PRICING an act of pricing

Underreport

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Indisputable.

Inflected form of DUPLICATED Inflected form of DUPLICATE Double; twofold.

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

How Housman's years came

Without warning

Out of the blue, organisation looked for central characters involved in analysis

Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive.

Not censored (of books)

Without deletions

Unabridged

""HYPHENATED United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word. as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.""

""IMPRESSIVE Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.""

See dubnium .

Tops by a considerable margin

Unique, unlike bar used by gymnast

Not equalled

That cannot be forgiven

Impossible to forgive

PATENTABLE Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

PERCEPTIVE Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

Not convincing

Unpleasant

Lack of mass appeal

A low approval rating indicates it

Great lack of appeal

Free from bias

Not biased

Unbiased

PRETENDING pretend

Having no morals

Lacking moral scruples

Lacking integrity

""PRIVILEGED Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity.""

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.

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

""Inflected form of PUNCTUATED Inflected form of PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

Too shocking to be said again

No encore for such a performance? That's gross!

Not reacting to stimuli

Cool prison venues to be redesigned

Not answering

Unripeness

""SCRIPTURAL Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine. as, a scriptural doctrine.""

Lacking moral principles.

Devoid of moral principles

Corrupt organisation can be ethical

Unstopper

Not overseen

SURPRISING surprise

Not aware of danger

Not aware of present danger

Off guard, trustful

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

They restore plush to order

Upholstery

Covering furniture

Uppercut

Uppishness

Uppitiness

Uppityness

Uproarious

UPROOTED uproot

Upwardness

Urediospore

An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

POWERFUL full of power

Without escort

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

Alone

Not expected

Not foreseen

United captain changed? That's surprising

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

Unappealing

Unprotected fund grew in value without recognition

""Inflected form of CAPITALIZED Inflected form of CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

Not reimbursed

Disinclined to go up against others

(Of prices) higher than others

Not marketable enough

Stoical

Clear a Parisian complex

Straightforward

Simple

Unwilling to get involved

Not willing to help

Not willing to help others

EMPHASES emphasis

EMPHASIS stress imparted to something to indicate significance

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

PAINTING a painted picture

Underpayment

Underpinning

Not ready enough for action

Insufficiently readied

Not ready

Underreport

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

Undersupply

Without self-control

Lacking in self-control

Uncontrolled in behaviour

Unemployable

Unemployment

Commonplace.

Usual

EXPLAINABLE Capable of being explained or made plain to the understanding; capable of being interpreted.

Unhappiness

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.""

Continuous

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

Continual

Uniparental

""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.""

Unnilpentium

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.""

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.""

""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

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.""

Lacking compassion

Without compassion

Not likeable

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Certain students.

Uprightness

Uptightness

Uranography

A reddish spore that is produced in the uredinium of a rust fungus and that spreads to and infects other host plants.

Urethroscope

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

""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.""

PRACTICAL Of or pertaining to practice or action.

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

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.

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.""

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.""

""DECIPHERABLE Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable. as, old writings not decipherable.""

(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.""

Underexposure

Underpainting

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Understrapper

EMPHATICALLY With emphasis; forcibly; in a striking manner or degree; pre\'89minently.

Not showing initiative

Unexpected

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

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

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.""

Unresponsive

How chiselers behave

How double-dealers deal

Unsurprising

The act or an instance of upgrading.

Very funny behaviour

High jinks

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

Uprootedness

Upstanding

Urediniospore

""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.""

Plural noun (-sions)

Inflected form of SONOGRAPHY Inflected form of SONOGRAPH

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.