Definition of lack

"lack" in the noun sense

1. lack, deficiency, want

the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

"there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"

"water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"

"for want of a nail the shoe was lost"

"lack" in the verb sense

1. miss, lack

be without

"This soup lacks salt"

"There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

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Quotations for lack

Better leave than lack. [ Proverb ]

Love that asketh love again
Finds the barter naught but pain;
Love that giveth in full store
Aye receives as much, and more.
Love exacting nothing back
Never knoweth any lack;
Love compelling Love to pay,
Sees him bankrupt every day. [ Dinah Muloch Craik ]

They have a plentiful lack of wit. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II. Sc.1 ]

I live for those who love me.
For those who know me true,
For the heavens that bend above me.
And await my spirit too;
For the cause that needs assistance.
For the wrongs that lack resistance,
For the future in the distance.
And the good that I can do. [ Thomas Guthrie ]

The world will turn when we are earth
As though we had not come nor gone;
There was no lack before our birth.
When we are gone there will be none. [ Omar Khayyam ]

Lack of desire is the greatest riches. [ Seneca ]

People do not lack strength; they lack will. [ Victor Hugo ]

Enjoy what you have; hope for what you lack. [ Levis ]

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth - the cowards! [ Joaquin Miller ]

In vain is the mill-clack if the miller his hearing lack. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit. [ Fielding ]

You need not go to the iron-mills every time you lack a tack-nail. [ Proverb ]

He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. [ Rückert ]

The lack of wealth is easily repaired; but the poverty of the soul is irreparable. [ Montaigne ]

Women complain of the lack of virtue in men, and do not esteem those who are too strictly virtuous. [ Blondel ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]

People who love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty and their fidelity is either the lethargy of custom or lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what constancy is to the intellectual life, simply a confession of failure. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

lack in Scrabble®

The word lack is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters lack:

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The 32 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In lack

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lack in Words With Friends™

The word lack is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters lack:

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The 35 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lack

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Words within the letters of lack

2 letter words in lack (1 word)

4 letter words in lack (1 word)

Words containing the sequence lack

Word Growth involving lack

Shorter words in lack

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Longer words containing lack

black azoblack

black blackball blackballed

black blackball blackballing

black blackball blackballs

black blackbean blackbeans

black blackberries

black blackberry blackberrying

black blackberry blackberrylike

black blackbird blackbirds

black blackboard blackboards

black blackbodies

black blackbody

black blackbox blackboxes

black blackbuck blackbucks

black blackcap blackcaps

black blackcurrant blackcurrants

black blacked lampblacked

black blacked unblacked

black blacken blackened nonblackened

black blacken blackened unblackened

black blacken blackener blackeners

black blacken blackening

black blacken blackens

black blacker

black blackest

black blackeye blackeyes

black blackface

black blackfish blackfisher blackfishers

black blackfish blackfishes

black blackfish blackfishing

black blackflies

black blackfly

black blackguard blackguards

black blackhat blackhats

black blackhead blackheads

black blackheart blackhearted blackheartedly

black blackheart blackhearted blackheartedness

black blackheart blackhearts

black blacking lampblacking

black blackish

black blackjack blackjacked

black blackjack blackjacking

black blackjack blackjacks

black blacklead blackleaded

black blackleg blacklegged

black blackleg blacklegging

black blackleg blacklegs

black blacklight blacklights

black blacklist blacklisted nonblacklisted

black blacklist blacklisted unblacklisted

black blacklist blacklister blacklisters

black blacklist blacklisting blacklistings

black blacklist blacklists

black blackly

black blackmail blackmailed unblackmailed

black blackmail blackmailer blackmailers

black blackmail blackmailing

black blackmail blackmails

black blackmail unblackmailable

black blackness

black blackout blackouts

black blackpox

black blacks blacksmith blacksmiths

black blacks blacksnake blacksnakes

black blacks blackspotted

black blacks lampblacks

black blackthorn blackthorns

black blacktop blacktopped

black blacktop blacktopping

black blacktop blacktops

black blackwash blackwashed

black blackwash blackwasher blackwashers

black blackwash blackwashes

black blackwash blackwashing

black blackwater blackwaters

black coalblack

black lampblack lampblacked

black lampblack lampblacking

black lampblack lampblacks

black pitchblack

clack clacked

clack clacking

clack clacks

flack flacks

lackadaisic lackadaisical lackadaisicality

lackadaisic lackadaisical lackadaisically

lackadaisic lackadaisical lackadaisicalness

lacked blacked lampblacked

lacked blacked unblacked

lacked clacked

lacked shellacked

lacked slacked foreslacked

lackey blackeye blackeyes

lackey lackeys

lacking blacking lampblacking

lacking clacking

lacking shellacking shellackings

lacking slacking foreslacking

lackluster lacklusterish

lackluster lacklusterness

lackluster lacklusters

lacklustre lacklustres

lacklustrous

lacks blacks blacksmith blacksmiths

lacks blacks blacksnake blacksnakes

lacks blacks blackspotted

lacks blacks lampblacks

lacks clacks

lacks flacks

lacks pollacks

lacks shellacks

lacks slacks foreslacks

pollack pollacks

shellack shellacked

shellack shellacker shellackers

shellack shellacking shellackings

shellack shellacks

slack foreslack foreslacked

slack foreslack foreslacking

slack foreslack foreslacks

slack slackage

slack slacked foreslacked

slack slacken slackened

slack slacken slackening

slack slacken slackens

slack slacker slackers

slack slackest

slack slacking foreslacking

slack slackly

slack slackminded

slack slackness

slack slacks foreslacks