Deficiency
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

GAP
An act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

4 letters

WANT
Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"

LACK
Be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

NEED
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"

5 letters

MINUS
An arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated; "the subtraction of three from four leaves one"; "four minus three equals one"

6 letters

DEFECT
A failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"

7 letters

ABSENCE
Failure to be present

DEFICIT
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing

PAUCITY
An insufficient quantity or number

8 letters

SHORTAGE
An acute insufficiency

9 letters

SHORTFALL
The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"

10 letters

INADEQUACY
Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

13 letters

INSUFFICIENCY
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally