Essential

Definitions: Essential

Essential

Adjective

1. Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker".

2. Basic and fundamental; "the essential feature".

3. Of the greatest importance; "the all-important subject of disarmament"; "crucial information"; "in chess cool nerves are of the essence".

4. Being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc; "essential oil".

5. (law) applying to essential legal principles and rules of right; "substantive law".

6. Absolutely required and not to be used up or sacrificed.

Noun

1. Anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "essential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Essential \Es*sen"tial\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression essentiel. See Essence.]. (Websters 1913)

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ESSENTIAL

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Synonyms: Essential

Existence

Real, actual, positive, absolute; true; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.

Greatness

Principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part; bulk, mass; (whole).

Absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished.

Importance

Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance.

Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points.

Intrinsicality

Noun: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness; Adjective: essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part; (importance).

Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.

Requirement

Adjective: required; Verb: requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.

Substantiality

Noun: substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part.

Whole

Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.

Crosswords: Essential

I am essential to the theatre - as ants to a picnic, as the boll weavil to a cotton field. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

I do. They're an essential part of any family. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz)

Gel is essential when things get complicated. (The Good Thief; writing credit: Auguste Le Breton; Jean-Pierre Melville)

There are other weapons I haven't given you as yet. For success it's essential you have thunderball fists. (Jung-Gwok chiu-yan; writing credit: Chakrapani)

The essential is know to give up your things and, at the same time, respect the space of the other member. (Popstars: Brasil; writing credit: David Meinstein)

I gave my heart so you know what's essential, ("A Little Bit"; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

Teamwork is essential; it gives the enemy someone else to shoot at. (references; author: unknown)

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own. (references; author: unknown)

The five most essential words for a healthy, vital relationship: "I apologize" and "You are right. (references; author: unknown)

What Every Christian Ought to Know: Essential Truths for Growing Your Faith (2000)

Hands Off: The Essential Defense Program for Women (2000)

The Essential Guide to Weather (1999)

Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)

The Essential Mike Oldfield (1980)

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References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Essential Oils, Perfume and Flavor Materials in Austria (reference)

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Benign Essential Blepharospasm (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Essential Oils, Concretes, Absolutes, and Resinoids in Asia (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Essential Oils, Perfumes and Toilet Preparations Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Essential Oils, Perfumes and Toilet Preparations Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Eating Well For Optimum Health: The Essential Guide to Bringing Health and Pleasure Back to Eating (reference)

• Dha: The Essential Omega-3 Fatty Acid (Woodland Health Ser) (reference)

• The 17 Essential Qualities Of A Team Player Becoming The Kind Of Person Every Team Wants (reference)

• French Wines: The Essential Guide to the Wines and Wine Growing Regions of France (reference)

• 500 Formulas for Aromatherapy: Mixing Essential Oils for Every Use (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Essential Connection (reference)

• Essential Drugs Monitor (reference)

• Essential Energy Efficiency (reference)

• Essential Medical World (reference)

• Essential Merger Control Quarterly (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Billy Joel - The Essential Video Collection (reference)

• Essential Techniques for Mandolin (reference)

• The Directors - The Essential DVD Collection (reference)

• Essential Winning Taekwondo Skills (reference)

• Stott Pilates - Essential Matwork (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Essential Bach (reference)

• Essential Guitar: 33 Guitar Masterpieces (reference)

• Essential Mozart: 32 Of His Greatest Masterpieces (reference)

• Essential Heart [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

• The Essential Kenny Loggins [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Gateway Essential Slimline Desktop (1.1-GHz Pentium III, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive) (reference)

• Kodak Essential Camera Bag (reference)

• IConcepts Essential Kit For Compaq iPAQ 3800/3900 Series (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Special Deliverease: The Essential Labor Comfort Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Pictured is a white nude mouse. The mouse is being held in the rubber-gloved hand of a technician. Nude mice, because of a genetic defect, have no thymus and cannot make certain cells essential for various immune responses. Because of this, they are extremely helpful to scientists working in Immunology Research.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shows photo of test tubes, petri dishes and other essential laboratory tools, used for cancer research, found in FDA Laboratory in 1938.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

A member of the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group cuts holes to place cable in the logs. US Forest Service and Skagit Fisheries Enhancement members cabled all the jams into place. Then, volunteers played an essential role in the restoration by performing pre and post monitoring of the site.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Snow builds up in Colorado's high forests. Snow melt is essential to western agriculture.Credit: Tim McCabe.

Leavened bread has been around a long while-since the days of ancient Egypt, Babylon and Greece, in fact. Then, as now, it was made from wheat, or from a mixture of wheat and rye. The elastic gluten in wheat is essential for bread to rise. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Autonomy is essential for diabetic sufferers. : Daily self-injection. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

Prevention is essential to protect life and there is no substitute for vaccination and immunization. / WHO/UNICEF photo.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Loyalty tests? Essential to security. Movie censorship? Of course! Should left-wingers be jailed? Naturally. What's that. Should food be rationed? Ridiculous! Who wants to live in a police state?".Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used in the manufacture of fine silverware, this grinder is now used in production of surgical instruments, as an Eastern factory undergoes conversion to the production of materials essential to Army and Navy medical.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Banta, farmers near Anthon, Iowa. They have groceries to last for only ten days unless they sell some of their livestock which is most essential for farming next spring. They hardly have a ton of wheat straw, and all the WPA money has.Credit: Library of Congress.

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In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference)

It is the essential criterion of appellate jurisdiction, that it revises and corrects the proceedings in a cause already instituted, and does not create that cause. (reference)

The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. (reference)

A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby assuring him the guarantees essential to the right of defence. (reference)

Ultimately, when the essential brotherhood of man is truly embodied and expressed in a world organization with all the necessary practical safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organization. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

The privilege against self-incrimination, which has had a long and expansive historical development, is the essential mainstay of our adversary system, and guarantees to the individual the "right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will," during a period of custodial interrogation as well as in the courts or during the course of other official investigations. (reference)

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.

And, in fact, you have heard all the essential already.

He deemed it essential, it would seem, to know the man, before attempting to do him good.

Happiness is only the essential.

The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender.

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Health

Calcium is an essential nutrient. (references)

No-touch techniques are not essential. (references)

Proteins are essential to all life processes. (references)

Business

Face-to-face contact is essential. (references)

In such cases, specialist advice is essential. (references)

Provisions for maintaining essential services are not onerous. (references)

Children

Rwanda

The public schools lack essential and basic supplies and cannot accommodate all children of primary school age. (references)

Marshall Islands

Of that number, 50 percent eventually graduate The Government provides subsidized essential medical services for all citizens, including children. (references)

Civil Liberties

Sri Lanka

By year's end, an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 IDP's, including those in the Vanni, had registered for government food aid, and were receiving medicine and other essential supplies from the Government. (references)

Economic History

Guinea

Still, an attorney familiar with local practices is essential. (references)

China

These raw materials are essential elements of most fertilizers. (references)

Tunisia

THESE ARE ESSENTIAL STEPS TOWARD IMPROVING THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

Many observers believe that reforms are essential to establish a fair and impartial, as well as efficient, judicial system. (references)

Malaysia

The Attorney General may restrict the right to a fair trial in criminal cases by invoking the Essential (Security Cases) Regulations. (references)

Vietnam

At the same time, diversification of the economy has made membership in CPV-controlled mass organizations and the CPV less essential to financial and social advancement. (references)

Political Economy

DENMARK

Trade unions are an essential factor in political life and represent their members effectively. (references)

SAUDI ARABIA

Certain specified essential commodities (e.g., defense purchases) are not subject to custom duties. (references)

Switzerland

There is virtually no standing army apart from training cadres and a few essential headquarters staff. (references)

Political Rights

Bhutan

The Assembly occasionally rejects the King's recommendations or delays implementing them, but in general, the King has enough influence to persuade the Assembly to approve legislation that he considers essential or to withdraw proposals he opposes. (references)

Trade

Bahamas

Precursor and essential chemicals: Customs Department. (references)

Burma

The rates depend whether the item is considered an essential or a luxury item. (references)

Travel

Nepal

Only essential travel is permitted in these areas. (references)

Tanzania

Patience, specificity and flexibility are essential for success. (references)

Ecuador

All types of food are readily available, but proper preparation is essential. (references)

Worker Rights

Liechtenstein

Workers have the right to strike except in certain essential services. (references)

Ethiopia

The law also prohibits workers who provide essential services from striking. (references)

Malaysia

The list includes sectors not normally deemed essential under ILO definitions. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Beginning with "essential": essential-at-the-time, essential-books, essential-to.

Ending with "essential": non-essential.

Albanian

element i domosdoshëm (part and parcel), vital (vital), veti themelore, themelor (basal, basic, Cardinal, constitutive, fundamental, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, radical, seminal, ultimate, underlying), thelbësor (Cardinal, elemental, imperative, mattery, overriding, radical, vital), qendror (basic, central, Midland, nodal, self centered, self centred), i nevojshëm (due, indispensable, necessary, needful, required). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كامل (absolute, all out, complete, completed, concluded, consummate, entire, finalized, finished, full, full blown, full scale, integral, integrate, out and out, outright, perfect, plenary, plumb, rounded off, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unqualified, utter, whole), ‏نقطة رئيسية, ‏حقيقي (actual, authentic, effective, factual, genuine, intrinsic, intrinsical, positive, proper, real, realistic, right, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, veritable, very), ‏عنصر أساسي (basis), ‏عطري (aromatic, odorous), ‏جوهري (cardinal, fundamental, intrinsic, intrinsical, main, material, overriding, pivotal, prime, quintessential, radical, substantial), ‏جوهرى, ‏أساسى (primordial), ‏أصول (genetics, seeds). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съществен елемент, съществен (formal, fundamental, integral, integrant, intimate, intrinsic, material, meaty, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying, vital), основно качество, основен (abecedarian, alkali, alkaline, basal, basic, bottom, capital, fundamental, general, grade, gut, key, key note, main, organic, pivotal, polar, primal, prime, primitive, primordial, principal, radical, rudimental, rudimentary, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, tonic, ultimate, underlying), най-важен (central, foremost, leading, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, supreme), етеричен, летлив (vaporous, volatile), предмет от първа необходимост (necessary, necessity). (various references)

Chinese 

要點 (main point), 要� (factor), � �本 (fundamental, radical), 必需�"� (necessity), 必需 (indispensable), 必要 (indispensable, necessary, required), 必不可少 (absolutely necessary, indispensable). (various references)

Czech

základní (basal, basic, Cardinal, elementary, fundamental, funded, overriding, primary, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, standard, staple, ultimate, underlying), podstatný (constituent, fundamental, germane, intrinsic, intrinsical, massive, perceptible, quintessential, real, substantial, substantive, vital), nutný (imperative, indispensable, inescapable, necessary, needful, perquisite, requisite, urgent), nezbytný (basic, imperative, indispensable, inevitable, necessary, needful, urgent, vital), hlavní (big, capital city, Cardinal, chief, decuman, leading, magistral, main, major, prime, principal, staple, star). (various references)

Danish

E (electromotive force, explosive, potential difference, tension), væsentlig (fundamental, substantial). (various references)

Dutch

essentieel, vitaal (full of life, vital), intrinsiek (inherent, intrinsic). (various references)

Esperanto

esenca. (various references)

Farsi 

مصادره کردن.ضروری , لاینفک (Innate), واقعی (Actual, Genuine, Lifelike, Literal, Real, Right, Sterling, True, Unfeigned, Veracious, Veritable, Very, Virtual), واجب (Fundametal, Indispensable, Momentous, Necessary, Necessitous, Obligatory, Vital), عمده (Chief, Dominant, Gross, Head, Main, Major, Material, On, Only, Predominant, Primary, Prime, Principal, Significant), جبلی (Innate, Natural), اساسی ذاتی , اصلی (Arch, Basic, Cardinal, Elementary, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal), بسیارلازم . (various references)

Finnish

välttämätön (imperative, indispensable, inevitable, necessary, unavoidable), tärkeä (important, serious, significant, urgent), olennainen (inherent, intrinsic, material, substantial). (various references)

French

essentiel (essence, essentials), fondamental (esentially). (various references)

German

wesentlich (appreciable, considerable, considerably, esentially, essentially, fundamental, fundamentally, important, integral, intrinsic, material, materially, primary, prime, substantial, substantially, substantive, vastly, vital, vitally), notwendig (imperative, inevitable, necessary, necessitative, needed, needful, needfull, needfully, required, requisite, structural), Hauptsache (main-thing), essentiell (essentially). (various references)

Greek 

ουσιώδησ (main, material, substantial). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"ותי (intrinsic, intrinsical, objective), יסו�"י (basic, elementary, elementary school, fundamental, inchoate, main, substantial, thorough, thoroughgoing, ultimate), תמציתי (concise, laconic, pithy, quintessential, succinct, summary, synoptic, terse), עצמותי (substantial), חיו� י (indispensable, necessary, needful, objective, vital), �"כרחי (imperative, indispensable, mandatory, must, necessary, obligatory, vital), � חוץ (immediate, imperative, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, urgent). (various references)

Hungarian

lényeges (concrete, constitutive, inherent, integral, intrinsic, intrinsical, primordial, quintessential, relevant, significant, substantial, substantive). (various references)

Italian

essenziale (basic, broad, concrete, concrete oil, elemental, main, material, pivotal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

重要 (important, major, momentous, principal), 肝腎 (crucial, fundamental, main, vital), 肝要 (crucial, importance, vital), 肝心 (crucial, fundamental, main, vital), エックス線�'�影 (edge, edge ball, edging, eggnog, essay, essayist, essence, extract, indecent, lewd, meal, radiographic, radiography), 必需�"� (necessary article, necessities, requisite), 必要 (indispensable, necessary), 必�"� (indispensable, necessary), 不可� (indispensable), 切要 (vital). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひつよう (indispensable, necessary), ひつじゅひ�" (necessary article, necessities, requisite), ふかけつ (indispensable), せつよう (economization, embezzlement, using secretly, vital), か�"よう (common, crucial, cultivation, customary, forbearance, fostering, generosity, government business, governmental porcelain furnace, importance, lobe of the liver, official use, tolerance, training, vital), か�"じ�" (aChinese, armorer, crucial, fundamental, magnanimous, main, man of leisure, scoundrel, temple solicitation, villain, vital), エッセンシャル , じゅうよう (appointing to a responsible post, appropriation to, earmarking for, important, major, momentous, principal). (various references)

Korean 

근본. (various references)

Manx

femoil (beggarly, destitute, necessary, needy, requisite), breeoil (active, active as person, brisk, buoyant, buoyant of market, cogent, dynamic, energetic, fizzy, forceful, go ahead, impulsive, purposeful, red-blooded, strenuous, valid, vibrant, vigorous). (various references)

Norwegian

vesentlig, absolutt nødvendig (imperative). (various references)

Pig Latin

essentialay

Portuguese

essencial (first, fundamental, head, important, main, necessary, pivotal, primarily, primordial, principal, root, substantial), principal (boss, broad, Cardinal, central, chief, firm in one's principles, first, flyer, forename, head, high, highlight, keynote, king, leading, main, major, major domo, master, parent company, pixie, preparative, primal, principal, principal sum, slip on, substantial), básico (basic, bottom, Cardinal, chief, fundamental, key, main, major, primary, principal, root, underlying). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

essencial, principal (main). (various references)

Romanian

esenţial (capital, constituent, constitutive, elemental, fundamental, indispensable, main, meat, prime, principal, vital), esenţã (base, being, bottom, content, core, cream, essence, extract, gist, kernel, kind, marrow, materiality, meat, pith, quiddity, quintessence, substance, sum), primordial (absolute, essentially, foremost, initial, primary, primordial, primordially), necesar (good, imperative, necessary, needed, needful, prerequisite, required, requisite), lucruri de primã necesitate, fundamental (base, basic, basically, capital, fundamental, fundamentally, main, prime, principal, ultimate, vital), capital (assets, capital, chief, corpus, fund), absolut (absolute, absolutely, arbitrarily, be sure, blank, boundless, broad, categorical, categorically, coercive, complete, completely, dead, downright, emphatic, entire, finished, flat, inalienable, just, perfect, physically, positive, positively, precious, pure, sheer, simple, strict, sure, there's no doubt about it, thorough, thoroughly, total, unequivocal, unfailingly, unlimited, unmistakable, unmistakably, unqualified, unrestricted, utter). (various references)

Russian 

сущность (core, entity, essence, essentiality, gist, inwardness, marrow, nature, pith, quiddity, substance, sum), существенный (constitutive, intrinsic, material, mattery, substantial, very basic, vital), основной (basal, basic, best, elemental, fundamental, key, main, most basic, overriding, primal, primary, prime, primitive, principal, radical, underlying), неотъемлемость (inalienability, inherence, inherency). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

esencijalan, glavna stvar (heft). (various references)

Spanish

esencial (esentially, imperative, necessary, pivot, pivotal, ultimate, vital). (various references)

Swedish

väsentlig (fundamental, integral, intrinsic, pertinent). (various references)

Thai

องค์ประกอบสำคัญ, จำเป็น (necessary, necessitous, need, requisite). (various references)

Turkish

esaslı (bedrock, constitutional, true), esas olan şey (essentiality), esas özellik, esans türünden, zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, forced, forcedly, imperative, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent), köklü (deep rooted, deepseated, deep-seated, ineradicable, inveterate, radical, root and branch, rooted, sweeping), gerekli (imperative, indispensable, material, necessary, needful, obligatory, ought, requisite, wanted), başlıca (Cardinal, chiefly, largely, leading, main, mainly, major, mostly, primarily, primary, prime, principally, ruling, staple), asíl (fundamental), asıl gerekli şey. (various references)

Turkmen 

mцhьm (important, necessary), dьяpli (fundamental). (various references)

Ukranian 

істотний (appreciable, constitutive, integrant, significant, substantial, substantive), суть (alcohol, backbone, content, core, entity, essence, existence, gist, hinge, inwardness, juice, kernel, marrow, marrowbone, matter, nature, net, nub, pith, point, quid, quiddity, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance), сутт�"вий, основне, неодмінний (bound). (various references)

Vietnamese 

yếu tố cần thiết, tinh (acute, exquisite, unmixed), thiết yếu, cốt yếu (capital). (various references)

Welsh

hanfodol, anhepgorol (indispensable), anhepgor (indispensable). (various references)

cardinalis, necessarius, necesse. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "essential": essentialism, essentialisms, essentialist, essentialists, essentialities, essentiality, essentialize, essentialized, essentializes, essentializing, essentially, essentialness, essentialnesses, essentials. (additional references)

Words ending with "essential": inessential, nonessential, quintessential, unessential. (additional references)

Words containing "essential": inessentials, nonessentials, quintessentially. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Essential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: assential, assyntian, easential, Eisenstat, esential, essentail, essentia, essentiall, essentiel, essentyale, essertial, isenthal, messenian, pestential. (additional references)