2-Letter Words Starting with U

Far from contrite

Not expressing regret

Not sorry

APPETIZING appetize

ASSOCIATED Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.

Not able to be reached

Out of reach

Not to be reached

ATTENUATED Made thin or slender.

Not appealing

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.""

BREATHABLE Such as can be breathed.

""CALCULATED Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball.""

""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.""

Adjective (-able)

Little-known

Each tribunal prepared to be cruel

Unethical bar cocktail is mean

Lacking generosity

CHARITABLY In a charitable manner.

CHASTENESS Chastity; purity.

Unchastity

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

""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.""

Unclutter

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

Want of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.

""CONJUGATED formed by the union of two compounds; as, a conjugated protein.as, a conjugated protein.""

Freedom from constraint; ease.

CONTRACTED contract

Out of hand

Without restraint or regulation

Wild organisation ruled the roost

CORRELATED mutually related.

""Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract.""

Without analyzing

UNCTUOUS {greasy=adj}

CULTIVABLE Capable of being cultivated or tilled.

Not highly educated

Fallow deer's head after upset in Tuvalu etc

Poorly educated and not prepared to grow crops

""DEFOLIATED Deprived of leaves, as by their natural fall.""

Power failure without show of hands

Organisation is not despotic or totalitarian

Curt comedian abandoned without popular support

Boxer's briefs (wordplay)

Briefs a number of boxers

Garments worn next to the skin

Undercoat

Undercount

Flounder currently holding tidal flow

Hidden significance of words or actions

Flow hidden beneath surface

Offering goods at lower prices than (competitors)

Pants perhaps turned German off

What exactly is a brief?

What exactly is a brief (wordplay)

Undergrowth

See underlay 1 .

Underlet

Manner deputy arranged partial settlement

Underreact

Underreport

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

Teasing drunk about responsibilities

Short of cash receipts for tasks

Enterprises giving less profits (wordplay)

Undertenant

Underthrust

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

Underweight

Underwriter

""The business of an underwriter,""

Criminal went with ID, return guaranteed

Subscribed and accepted financial responsibility

Accepted financial responsibility for being subscribed (wordplay)

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Not able to be identified

Up in the air

Indigestible.

Tactless for peacekeepers to join ambassador in charge

Gaffe-prone peacekeepers linked to foreign representative in charge

Tactless

Indisputable.

DISTRACTED distract

DOCUMENTED document

""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.""

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

EMBITTERED embitter

Work out clue to depression (wordplay)

A symptom of depression (wordplay)

State of being out of work

In unexciting manner

How Housman's years came

Without warning

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

Not censored (of books)

Without deletions

Unabridged

In a betraying way

""FASTIDIOUS Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.""

Too profound to grasp

Incapable of being fully understood

A humble fan to be moved, too deep for words

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

""FLAMBOYANT Characterized by waving or flamelike curves, as in the tracery of windows, etc.; said of the later (15th century) French Gothic style.""

FLATTERING flatter

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.

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.""

Without thanking one from Roquefort, prepare all the cheese

A foreign fitness centre? Radical and best starting off for the most unfit!

Showing no doubt

""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.""

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

HYSTERICAL Of or pertaining to hysteria.

Not recognised

Mysterious affair seen briefly coming over in profundity (wordplay)

Unification

UNIFOLIOLATE

Uniformity

In a one sided way

University making delayed recovery on its own

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

""Inflected form of INOCULATED Inflected form of INOCULATE To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.""

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

False insinuation containing zero evidence of workplace activism

""IONIZATION the process of converting neutral atoms or molecules into ions. The process may occur by dissolving an ionic substance in a dissociating solvent, such as water, or by adding or subtracting an electron to or from an atom or molecule. The latter process occurs, for example, in an electron beam in a mass spectrometer and by interaction of substances with ionizing radiation.ionizing radiation.""

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

""UNISEXUAL Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di&oe;cious; distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di&oe;cious. bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di&oe;cious.""

Religious doctrine

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

A single heretical principle? (Defended by Priestley)

Unitization

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

Harvard and MIT, for example

Gorky claimed these seats of learning

Clemson and others

Unjustness

Inflected form of LISTENABLE Inflected form of LISTEN to try to hear

Not sellable

Not confusable with anything else

Make Istanbul out to be distinctive

Clear - obvious

Inflected form of MISTAKABLY Inflected form of MISTAKE to interpret wrongly

Unmorality

""Inflected form of MYELINATED Inflected form of MYELINE a fatty substance that covers certain nerve fibres, also MYELIN""

""NEGOTIABLE Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange. as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.""

""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.""

See dubnium .

Not easily observed

OBSTRUCTED obstruct

OBTAINABLE Capable of being obtained.

Simple switch turned on to receive call

Unorthodox

""Inflected form of OXYGENATED Inflected form of OXYGENATE To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide). as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).""

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.

Unpleasant

Lack of mass appeal

A low approval rating indicates it

Great lack of appeal

PRETENDING pretend

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

Boding ill

""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.""

Fully accepted.

Beyond doubt

Not challenged

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

Too shocking to be said again

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

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

""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.""

Not approved

Star loses the head, is supported and isn't punished

Not rigorously investigated

Not systematic or methodical in thought

Lacking a satisfactory analytical process

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

Not set apart

""Inflected form of SENSITIZED Inflected form of SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

""The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance.""

Unsettling

SIGHTLIEST sightly

""STABLENESS The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.""

Shakiness; lack of regularity

Shaky state

Shakiness

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

In a very generous manner

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 aware of danger

Not aware of present danger

Off guard, trustful

Not methodical

Lacking method

Not ordered

TENABILITY The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

By implication, fat royal without consideration

Untidiness

Unseasonableness.

Part of an important global problem

Korn's current album

TOWARDNESS Quality or state of being toward.

TRANSLATED

Untruthful

""Inflected form of VACCINATED Inflected form of VACCINATE To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows. vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.""

""Inflected form of VENTILATED Inflected form of VENTILATE To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine. as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.""

WONTEDNESS The quality or state of being accustomed.

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

They restore plush to order

Upholstery

Covering furniture

Uppercut

Uppitiness

Uppityness

UPROOTED uproot

Process of becoming more built-up

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

A sociologist who specializes in the problems of cities and urban life.

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.

Utilitarian

Utilization

Uglification