2-Letter Words Starting with U

Not controlled

Not practised in advance

Not practised beforehand

Off-the-cuff

Allowed to exhibit freely

RETOUCHED retouch

Kind of fat that's heart-healthy

Like some fats

Kind of dietary fats that are heart-healthy

Like paid-for cable TV

Restored to intelligibility

SEPARATED separate

Unstopper

Not borne out (by facts)

Stays away (wordplay)

Lacking approval

Never before topped

Never bettered

Not bettered

SURPRISED surprise

Not spoiled or ruined

Pure

Not hampered

TRAVERSED traverse

Type of truth (wordplay)

Lacking a topcoat, that's plain

Not justified or authorised

Without justification

Not justified

WEATHERED weather

Held posture straight, being padded

Padded

REFINED refine

Not officially recognised

Not given official recognition

Not certified

Taking place without being made public

Of unknown provenance

A foreign element reaching bad end came from God knows where

""AUTHORIZED Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. as, an authorized agent.""

""Inflected form of BARRICADED Inflected form of BARRICADE A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually an obstruction formed in streets to block an enemy's access.""

""Inflected form of CALIBRATED Inflected form of CALIBRATE To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.""

Little-known

Sans supervision (hidden celeb 3)

* Sans supervision

""Not christened; as, an unchristened child. as, an unchristened child.""

Not recorded children travelling, with count incomplete

""Inflected form of CIRCULATED Inflected form of CIRCULATE To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body. as, the blood circulates in the body.""

Don, seducer in trouble, may be ignored

Mac's remarkable northern team - looking hot but ignored

CONTRACTED contract

Out of hand

Without restraint or regulation

Wild organisation ruled the roost

CORRELATED mutually related.

DECIPHERED decipher

CHARGED charge

Undercount

Given too little light

INSURED one who is insured

Lacking sufficient oomph

Underreact

Undershirt

Lacking sufficient employees

Understeer

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

Less than impressed

Far from pleased or stirred

Not impressed

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 censored (of books)

Without deletions

Unabridged

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

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

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

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

Inflected form of HYDROLYZED Inflected form of HYDROLYZE

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

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.

OBSTRUCTED obstruct

Simple switch turned on to receive call

Tops by a considerable margin

Unique, unlike bar used by gymnast

Not equalled

Free from bias

Not biased

Unbiased

Having no morals

Lacking moral scruples

Lacking integrity

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

PROGRAMMED program

PRONOUNCED Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.

RECOGNIZED

Not brought together

Off the record, international body had an impact

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

REINFORCED

REMEMBERED remember

Rampant disorder was rampant, say

Dreariest nun can be wild!

Not tied up

Accessible to all

Not limited

Accessible to all reproducing red tinctures

Not set apart

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

""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

TRANSLATED

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

ULTRARARE

Pure, natural duet moving journalist

A French mature brie finally deemed authentic

Pure

Unprotected fund grew in value without recognition

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

""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.""

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

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

Not hallowed

Not limited

At liberty

A French prisoner's disciplined, but not locked up

CONSTRICTED Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

CONSTRUCTED construct

Badly organised

ACHIEVED achieve

Underbudget

Short on schooling

Not used enough

Having too little work

Not fully made use of

FINANCED finance

INFLATED inflate

Not ready enough for action

Insufficiently readied

Not ready

Underreport

UTILIZED utilize

""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.

ELECTRIFIED

Not ashamed

Continuous

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

Continual

UNIVERSALIZE To make universal; to generalize.

Inflected form of PARASITIZED Inflected form of PARASITIZE

Inflected form of PASTEURIZED Inflected form of PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Never known before

Like never before

Never before known or experienced

Inflected form of PRESSURIZED Inflected form of PRESSURIZE

REPRESENTED represent

Not changed

CIVILIZED civilize

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

COMPREHENDED comprehend

""COMPUTERIZED stored, processed, or analyzed by computer.""

CONTRADICTED contradict

Not confirmed by evidence

CREDENTIALED credential

CRYSTALLIZED smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.

(Of a country) not economically advanced

Like dark pictures of the Third World

Like a picture that comes out badly scrawny

Judged badly, but not excessively

Made approximation that wasn't highly inaccurate

Two continental articles calculated at less than current price

Hungry? Rescheduled dinner hour's due

With too few inhabitants

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

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

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

Inflected form of REFRIGERATED Inflected form of REFRIGERATE To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

Inflected form of ROMANTICIZED Inflected form of ROMANTICIZE

""Inflected form of STANDARDIZED Inflected form of STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

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

CHOREOGRAPHED choreograph

EMPHASIZED Having stress or emphasis.

Characteristic of slum children

Poor driver - I need plug changing

Like many slum children

Inflected form of PUBLICIZED Inflected form of PUBLICIZE

RECONSTRUCTED reconstruct

Classified as the same