2-Letter Words Starting with U

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

Umbilication

Unable to be explained

That cannot be explained

One can't have the knowhow

ACCOUNTABLY In an accountable manner.

""Inflected form of ADJUDICATED Inflected form of ADJUDICATE To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.""

Pure, natural duet moving journalist

A French mature brie finally deemed authentic

Pure

More the stay-at-home type

Not expected

Not foreseen

United captain changed? That's surprising

Unprotected fund grew in value without recognition

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

Unassertive

Not absorbed (into society)

Unbeautiful

BELLIGERENT Waging war; carrying on war.

CALCULATING Of or pertaining to mathematical calculations; performing or able to perform mathematical calculations.

""Inflected form of CAPITALIZED Inflected form of CAPITALIZE To convert into capital, or to use as capital.""

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.""

COLLECTIBLE Capable of being collected.

Awkward - not conducive to relaxing

Not at ease

Ill at ease

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

Not reimbursed

Disinclined to go up against others

(Of prices) higher than others

Not marketable enough

Clear a Parisian complex

Straightforward

Simple

Without any ifs or buts

Under all circumstances

With no strings attached

Not conditioned or subject to conditions; unconditional.

Not hallowed

Not limited

At liberty

A French prisoner's disciplined, but not locked up

Unconstraint

CONSTRICTED Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

CONSTRUCTED construct

Inflected form of CONSUMMATED Inflected form of CONSUMMATE Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

CONTAINABLE Capable of being contained or comprised.

CONTENTIOUS Fond of contention; given to angry debate; provoking dispute or contention; quarrelsome.

Unwilling to get involved

Not willing to help

Not willing to help others

Badly organised

CORRECTABLE Capable of being corrected.

Uncouthness

Uncustomary

ACTIVITY the state of being active

Underbudget

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

Set too low

Evaluation that is too low

Rate as too low

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

INFLATED inflate

Underlayment

PAINTING a painted picture

Underpayment

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

UTILIZED utilize

Underutilize

Undeviating

DIALECTICAL Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.

DISSOCIATED not connected or associated.

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.""

Undutiful

Unnatural or mysterious quality

Mysterious quality

ELECTRIFIED

Unemotional

Unemployment

Not given spiritual insight

Without spiritual insight

Not uplifted by knowledge or religion

Not permanently set up

Commonplace.

Usual

Unfaltering

Quality of strangeness

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

GENTLEMANLY gentleman

Not conforming to the rules of syntax

(Of a sentence) not correct

Linguistically flawed

A state of constitutional disorder

Stolid, somewhat dull

Lacking any creativity

Lacking in mental creativity

Providing no useful knowledge

Revealing little

Lacking information

Not suitable for living in

Uninhibited

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

Lacking wit

Loveless marriage, say, with one bloke? That's foolish

Stupid group of workers, none the less, report information in it

Not done on purpose

Accidental

Not meant

Not arousing curiosity

Various units entering flat

Dull, boring

Continuous

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

Continual

INTIMIDATED made timid or fearful as by threats.

Unionisation

Unionization

Uniparental

Unitarianism

Universalist

Can't be defended, having no grounds

Indefensible

JUSTIFIABLY

""Impossible to know, especially being beyond the range of human experience or understanding: the unknowable mysteries of life.""

""Inflected form of MANIPULATED Inflected form of MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Forbidden as a topic of conversation

Scandalous, man on tube line flashing

Indecent playing alone in tub embracing blokes

Inflected form of METABOLIZED Inflected form of METABOLIZE To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism. Metabolism.

Unmitigated

Unnatural

Unnilpentium

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.

""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}

Without airs and graces

Simple routine upset about including new start

Understated

*Not about to raise eyebrows

Straightforward

""PUNCTUALITY The quality or state of being punctual; especially, adherence to the exact time of an engagement; exactness.""

Not expressing doubt

Unquietness

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

Unselective

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

Showing no tender emotions

Not given to excessively tender emotions

Eschewing tender emotions

The quality or state of being unsettled.

Unsettlement

SIGHTLINESS The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

Not dramatic

Undramatic

Unremarkable

Lacking in matter or substance; visionary; chimerical.

SUITABILITY The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.

Incapable of being defended

Not able to be tolerated

""SUSCEPTIBLE Capable of admitting anything additional, or any change, affection, or influence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration.""

""SUSTAINABLE Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable. as, the action is not sustainable.""

Clumsy minaret flawed because it's this

Not having matching parts either side of an axis

Lacking compassion

Without compassion

Not likeable

""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

Abstract noun (-ity)

Uprightness

Uptightness

Urbanisation

Urbanization

Urbanologist

Urethroscope

Ubiquitous

Ultimateness

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""