2-Letter Words Starting with U

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

""Inflected form of ACCLIMATIZED Inflected form of ACCLIMATIZE To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants.""

""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.""

Inflected form of ACCULTURATED Inflected form of ACCULTURATE

Unaccustomed

Unaffected

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

ALTERABILITY The quality of being alterable; alterableness.

Unambivalent

ANESTHETIZED rendered insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.insensible by anesthetizing. Same as anaesthetized.

Unappetizing

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

Not recognising the merits of something

Not specially appropriate; having not special application.

Unattractive

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

AVAILABILITY The quality of being available; availableness.

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

Unchasteness

CHAUVINISTIC fanatically patriotic.

Uncollectible

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

Unconformity

CONGENIALITY The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

""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

Not confirmed by evidence

CREDENTIALED credential

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

Unctuousness

DECIDABILITY

Underclothing

Judged badly, but not excessively

Made approximation that wasn't highly inaccurate

Two continental articles calculated at less than current price

Underestimate

Guard sauntered around with students

Students sauntered around having swallowed a drug naughtily

""INFLATION The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.""

""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.""

Underpainting

With too few inhabitants

Underreport

Not fully saturated; imperfectly saturated.

Ministry high-up

Office junior for leading civil servant

Government official needing to sort out nerdy creatures

Understaffing

Able to be got (wordplay)

Able to be comprehended

Can be appreciated that it is reasonable

""UNDERSTAND To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.""

STANDINGS standing

Meiosis or litotes

Traditional trait of the British.

The downplaying of something

Understrapper

Underthrust

UTILIZING utilize

Run a novel audit producing assessment that's too low

DESIRABILITY The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

Not determinable; indeterminable.

DOGMATICALLY In a dogmatic manner; positively; magisterially.

Release many exotic species initially tethered, including feline that's wild

DRAMATICALLY In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.

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

ENLIGHTENING enlighten

Not showing initiative

Apathetic flipping nuisance! Shut it!

Cool cuties hit annus horribilis

Showing no interest

Uneventful

Unexpected

Unfaithful

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

Unflattering

Unfruitful

Ungenerosity

Ungrateful

Like a shot from dreadful gun, hit in a style

Unhysterical

IDENTIFIABLE Capable of being identified.

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.""

ILLUMINATING Giving or producing light; used for illumination.

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

""INGRATIATING capable of winning favor; as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.as, with open arms and an ingratiating smile.""

""INTELLECTUAL Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc. as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.""

If this is it you won't get it

Impossible to understand

""INTELLIGIBLY In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly. as, to write or speak intelligibly.""

Unisexuality

Of or pertaining to the whole; universal.

Universality

Lingerie nobleman unties perhaps

Underwear shot not seen in album

Riddle's answer

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

PALATABILITY Palatableness.

Unpleasant

Unpopularity

Unpredictable

Auden permitted to compose impromptu

Impromptu new composition for a trumpet? Indeed

Variation for a trumpet, indeed, not rehearsed

QUANTIFIABLE

""Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. as, an unquestionable title.""

Surely search in combination with skill

Start of a quote by H.L. Mencken

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

Unregenerate

In a non-limiting manner

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

Unstableness

""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.""

Unsteadiness

""Inflected form of SYSTEMATIZED Inflected form of SYSTEMATIZE To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

Untenability

Impossible to imagine; inconceivable: an unthinkable amount of money.

Untimeliness

Not to be touched.

Untowardness

""TRANSLATABLE Capable of being translated, or rendered into another language.""

Untruthful

Unwontedness

Unworthiness

The act or an instance of upgrading.

Uprootedness

Upstanding

URBANISTIC

Usufructuary

Philosophical doctrine

Millian reason

Ultimogeniture

""CENTRIFUGE an apparatus having containers for liquids arrayed around a central pivot and rotated at a high speed, thus generating centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.centrifugal force on the liquid, and separating substances (such as particles of solid or globules of an immiscible liquid) mixed together in suspension within the liquid. Suspensions which would settle only very slowly or not at all under gravity can be made to separate quickly in such a device.""

""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.

ULTRALIBERAL

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

ULTRASTRUCTURE

Ultrastructure

Ultravirility

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Far from obliging

Goad communicant after Reformation, unlike 9 and 22

Unadulterated

Unalterable

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Unanticipated

Unappreciation

Impossible to dispute or disprove; undeniable: unassailable truths.

Adjective (-able)

UNCERTAINNESS uncertain

CHANGEABILITY Changeableness.

Unwilling to talk

Reserved; taciturn

Lacking transparency, like a so-called public inquiry (wordplay)

COMPASSIONATE Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Demeaning five vowels in reverse order (nonverbal)

Disparaging

Derogatory lie countryman concocted about politician

State of the possibilities (wordplay)

In a categorical way

With no restrictions

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

Underactivity

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

Not sufficiently concerned about

Wrongly mistreated union valuation that falls short

Underinflation

""INVESTMENT The act of investing, or the state of being invested.""

Undernutrition

Below full capacity

Quota-shy output

""In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.""

Minimizers of a sort

Some inferior representations

Some expressions of false humility

Assigned prices that are too low

Thing in use is dud, awfully mediocre

Ordinary, unexceptional

So-so

DUTIFULNESSES dutifulness

Unearthliness

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.""

Unfamiliarity

Unhealthiness

Uniformitarian

Showing lack of creative thought

Uninformative