2-Letter Words Starting with U

Lacking sufficient oomph

PRICING an act of pricing

Underreact

Underreport

Coming in too short

Emphasising what a consistently poor batsman is doing (wordplay)

Putting emphasis on not getting enough runs (wordplay)

Undersell

Undershirt

Lacking sufficient employees

STATING state

Understeer

Understory

Wasn't a diligent pupil prepared to take part if necessary (wordplay)

Waiters in the wings

They don't start

They take part in emergencies

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Teasing drunk about responsibilities

Short of cash receipts for tasks

Enterprises giving less profits (wordplay)

Undertenant

Underthrust

""UTILIZE to make use of, also UTILISE""

VALUING value

Underweight

Less than impressed

Far from pleased or stirred

Not impressed

Underwriter

""The business of an underwriter,""

Criminal went with ID, return guaranteed

Subscribed and accepted financial responsibility

Accepted financial responsibility for being subscribed (wordplay)

Objectionable people

Up in the air

Not relieved of bankruptcy

Yet to be found

DISTRACTED distract

""Inflected form of DRAMATIZED Inflected form of DRAMATIZE To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode. as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.""

EMBITTERED embitter

Free of liability

Free, one Parisian figured, to be injected with drug

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

Not censored (of books)

Without deletions

Unabridged

Unfairness

Unfamiliar

FERTILIZED united with a male gamete to begin the development of an individual embryo; -- of female gametes.

FLATTERING flatter

Big foul raven could be allowed no excuses

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

Unfortunate

""Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. as, an unfrequented place or forest.""

Unfruitful

GENEROSITY Noble birth.

In an ungenerous manner.

GENTRIFIED gentrify

""Inflected form of GERMINATED Inflected form of GERMINATE To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.""

Inflected form of GLAMORIZED Inflected form of GLAMORIZE

Impossible to control

Ungraceful

Ungracious

Without thanking one from Roquefort, prepare all the cheese

Unharness

""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.""

Inflected form of HYDROLYZED Inflected form of HYDROLYZE

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Unicameral

Uniformity

In a one sided way

University making delayed recovery on its own

50 per cent of unions delayed protest, not acting with others

""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.""

INSTRUCTED instruct

INTEGRATED Formed or united into a whole.

Bored teen isn't rude, surprisingly

Having no care in knowing

Apathetic rude teen isn't misbehaving

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

Inflected form of IRRADIATED Inflected form of IRRADIATE To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

Religious doctrine

Narnia? Um, is it about Christian doctrine (wordplay)

A single heretical principle? (Defended by Priestley)

""The doctrine or belief that all men will be saved, or made happy, in the future state.""

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

Applicability to all cases

Film studio finds it with unknown quantity existing everywhere

To make universal; to generalize.

Harvard and MIT, for example

Gorky claimed these seats of learning

Clemson and others

Unmannered

Not sellable

Immeasurable.

Without letup

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

""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.""

NOURISHING nourish

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

OBSTRUCTED obstruct

Simple switch turned on to receive call

Unorthodox

Tops by a considerable margin

Unique, unlike bar used by gymnast

Not equalled

That cannot be forgiven

Impossible to forgive

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

Not convincing

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.

REALIZABLE Capable of being realized.

That's irrational, dear

Beyond acceptable limits

Beano's unreal, mad, far-fetched

REASONABLY In a reasonable manner.

RECOGNIZED

Not brought together

Inflected form of RECYCLABLE Inflected form of RECYCLE to process waste materials

""REDEEMABLE Capable of being redeemed; subject to repurchase; held under conditions permitting redemption; as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable. as, a pledge securing the payment of money is redeemable.""

Not like the Mirror? I don't think so

Not reforming or repenting

Not showing repentance

Showing no repentance

Off the record, international body had an impact

Buckled under, skirting main point, before being off the record

REINFORCED

Unrelieved

Not particularly surprising

Real number around about a thousand, back as standard

Inflected form of REMARKABLY Inflected form of REMARK to say briefly or casually

REMEMBERED remember

Too shocking to be said again

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

Every sled run is different? Absolutely

Without hesitation

Without qualification

""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

Rampant disorder was rampant, say

Dreariest nun can be wild!

Not tied up

Unrestraint

Accessible to all

Not limited

Accessible to all reproducing red tinctures

Not to be taken back

REVIEWABLE Capable of being reviewed.

""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.""

Unripeness

Unruliness

Unscrambler

Man rings club members - that's the procedure with clues like this

""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

Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.

UNSEARCHABLE Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.

Not set apart

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Unstopper

""Not stratified; applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.""

Loose, in today's world

Not overseen

SURPRISING surprise

TOWARDNESS Quality or state of being toward.

TRANSLATED

Untruthful

Inflected form of VERBALIZED Inflected form of VERBALIZE To convert into a verb; to verbify.

VERIFIABLE Capable of being verified; confirmable.

Unwariness

Unwavering

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

They restore plush to order

Upholstery

Covering furniture

Uppercut

Uproarious

UPROOTED uproot

Upwardness

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

Plural or third person singular

Urethritis

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.

A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it.

USURIOUS practicing usury

Utilitarian

UXORIOUS excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife

CAUTIOUS exercising prudence

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DISTANCE to move far from a particular point

FAMILIAR a close friend or associate

FEMININE the female sex or nature

FILTRATE to {filter=v}

Ultraleftism

Ultraleftist

Ultraliberal

A helluva Netflix binge (wordplay)

MILITANT a person who takes active part in a struggle

Ultramontane

ORTHODOX one who holds traditional beliefs

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

POWERFUL full of power

Ultraradical

ULTRARARE

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

Ultrarealism

Ultrarealist

RELIABLE one that can be relied on

RIGHTIST an advocate of {rightism=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

ROYALIST a supporter of a monarch or monarchy

VIOLENCE a violent action

ULTRAVIRILE

Producing umbels.

Pure, natural duet moving journalist

A French mature brie finally deemed authentic

Pure