lack
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lack/lak/
▶noun absence or deficiency of something. ▶verb (also lack for) be without or deficient in.
– origin ME: corresp. to, and perh. partly from, MDu. and Mid. Low Ger. lak ‘deficiency’, MDu. laken ‘lack’.
'lack' also found in these Oxford entries:
abandon
- absence
- absent
- agammaglobulinaemia
- alack
- anergia
- anomie
- anorexia
- apathy
- arrhythmia
- aschelminth
- asthenia
- asymmetry
- atrophy
- avascular
- bacterium
- becalm
- brazen
- bush sickness
- caecilian
- candour
- cavalier
- chlorosis
- choke
- cliché
- clichéd
- common
- crass
- dearth
- default
- defect
- deficiency
- deficiency disease
- deprivation
- diffident
- disaccord
- disbelief
- disconformity
- discontent
- discord
- discredit
- discrepancy
- disdainful
- disease
- disequilibrium
- disharmony
- disinterest
- disjunction
- disorder
- disproportion
