2-Letter Words Starting with U

More the stay-at-home type

Unprotected fund grew in value without recognition

""ARTICULATED United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton. as, an articulated skeleton.""

Unassertive

Unawareness

BELLIGERENT Waging war; carrying on war.

""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

Uncertain

Uncertainty

CHARISMATIC Of or pertaining to a charism.

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

""Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites.""

Awkward - not conducive to relaxing

Not at ease

Ill at ease

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

CONCERNEDLY In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.

Not conformable; not agreeable; not conforming.

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

Invincible

UNCONQUERABLE Not conquerable; indomitable.

Not hallowed

Not limited

At liberty

A French prisoner's disciplined, but not locked up

Unconstraint

CONSTRICTED Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

CONSTRUCTED construct

Unwilling to get involved

Not willing to help

Not willing to help others

Badly organised

CORRECTABLE Capable of being corrected.

Uncustomary

Like returned post

Like returned mail

Powerless to accept reviled revolutionary with incorrect address (wordplay)

ACHIEVED achieve

One doing less well than expected

Person not reaching their potential

Hear I've tangled with dunce? Right, he could do better

Underachieve

ACTIVITY the state of being active

Underbudget

Landing gear below coach

Changed gear, ruined car, or part of one

(Aircraft) landing gear

CHARGING charge

They're not yet seniors

CLASSMEN classman

Where to look for vest (wordplay)

Invest in this

Old chuntering about lingerie

COATINGS coating

Undercount

Nora Roberts book

Hidden feelings

Suggestions

Short on schooling

EMPHASES emphasis

EMPHASIS stress imparted to something to indicate significance

Not used enough

Having too little work

Not fully made use of

Set too low

Evaluation that is too low

Rate as too low

EXPOSING expose

Fault of a dark picture

A giving of insufficient light to a photograph

FINANCED finance

Bras and briefs

Clothes that should not be worn out

Eg, bra, pants, vest, etc

One studying for a first degree

Student's strangely guarded nature

Student's oddly guarded nature

Underground

In a dishonest manner

INFLATED inflate

Underlayment

PAINTING a painted picture

Underpayment

Underpinning

Not ready enough for action

Insufficiently readied

Not ready

Underreact

Underreport

Undershoot

STAFFING staff

Getting sympathetic (wordplay)

Digging beneath footing (wordplay)

Gathering the soles there (wordplay)

Understated

Understeer

A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling.

A French-German article on power of missing players

Preparing to substitute for player, not learning enough

Undersupply

Undersurface

UTILIZED utilize

Underutilize

Surprisingly wild men hunger for routine

Subservient to western leadership? Not very impressive

DESCRIBABLE That can be described; capable of description.

""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.""

DISTRIBUTED spread from a central location to multiple points or recipients. Opposite of concentrated.concentrated.

""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.""

Unnatural or mysterious quality

Mysterious quality

ELECTRIFIED

Not ashamed

ENCOURAGING Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

(Of law) impossible to police

Unfaltering

Quality of strangeness

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

Not conforming to the rules of syntax

(Of a sentence) not correct

Linguistically flawed

Unguarded

Uniformness

Providing no useful knowledge

Revealing little

Lacking information

""INSTRUCTIVE Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons. as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.""

Not arousing curiosity

Various units entering flat

Dull, boring

Continuous

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

Continual

Uniparental

Unitarianism

Universalism

Universalist

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

Universalize

The quality or state of being universal; universality.

Unnatural

Canines surely unleashed for nothing

That gets in the way of the start of 36 across

So as not to attract attention

Unorthodoxy

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

Unreadiness

Unreasoning

RECLAIMABLE That may be reclaimed.

""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.""

Unrelenting

RELIABILITY The state or quality of being reliable; reliableness.

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

Unremitting

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.""

Unrighteous

Unserious

Not in working order

Error in cube reveals it to be of no use

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Incapable of being defended

Not able to be tolerated

Not able to be bettered

Clumsy minaret flawed because it's this

Not having matching parts either side of an axis

""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.""

THREATENING threaten

""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

Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper.

""Inflected form of WARRANTABLY Inflected form of WARRANT to justify, also WARRAN, WARRAND""

WORKABILITY

Naivety worsens in dull position

Lack of sophistication

Naivety

Abstract noun (-ity)

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

Certain students.

Uprightness

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

Law 1. (Law) a principle of inheritance whereby the youngest son succeeds to the estate of his ancestor Compare primogeniture

CIVILIZED civilize

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

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

ENERGETIC

""EXCLUSIVE Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others; as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society. as, exclusive bars; exclusive privilege; exclusive circles of society.""

Ultrafiltrate

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

HAZARDOUS Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

Ultramarathon

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

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

ULTRAMICRO

""MINIATURE Originally, a painting in colors such as those in medi\'91val manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.""

""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.""

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.

ULTRAREALIST

Ultrarightist

Ultraroyalist

""SENSITIVE Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. as, a sensitive soul.""

ULTRASONIC

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Ultraviolence

Umbrageous

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

ALTERABILITY The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

""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.

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

Inflected form of BUREAUCRATIC Inflected form of BUREAUCRAT An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine.

Unchivalrous

The absence or want of circumcision.

COMPREHENDED comprehend