2-Letter Words Starting with U

MASCULINE Of the male sex; not female.

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

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

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

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

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

Not recognising the merits of something

ATTRIBUTABLE Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

""CONSTRUCTIVE Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. as, to exhibit constructive power.""

Not open to regulation

Able to be got (wordplay)

Able to be comprehended

Can be appreciated that it is reasonable

Not determinable; indeterminable.

IDENTIFIABLE Capable of being identified.

If this is it you won't get it

Impossible to understand

QUANTIFIABLE

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

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

""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.""

""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.""

Adjective (-able)

Unwilling to talk

Reserved; taciturn

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

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

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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

Beyond reproach

Cannot include offence that is ordinary enough

Inoffensive, lacking power to contain odd one out

""OBJECTIONABLE Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words. as, objectionable words.""

Kind of conduct penalized in football

"Conduct" penalized in football

Conduct penalized in football

Not typical (of a group)

Not a typical example

Not typical of anything

Highly reactionary