Need

Definition: Need

Need

Noun

1. A condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs".

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

3. The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action; the reason for the action; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives".

4. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Verb

1. Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert".

2. Have need of: "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner".

3. Be obliged, required, or forced to; "She has to get her driver's license".

4. Be in want of.

5. Be logically necessary.

6. Have or feel a need for: "always needing friends and money".

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

Date "need" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Business

Dream Interpretation

Tips from 1870

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

Synonyms: Need

Desire

Want, miss, need, feel the want of, would fain have, would fain do; would be glad of.

Noun: desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.

Insufficiency

Want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want; (poor), live from hand to mouth.

Scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition, starvation, famine, drought.

Poverty

Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.

Requirement

Verb: require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire.

Noun: requirement, need, wants, necessities; necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency,pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.

Crosswords: Need

Estonian (them, these, these/those).

But it helps me remember and I need to remember Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Those fold-outs take a tremendous amount of space up, and I need space (Fletch; writing credit: Andrew Bergman)

All I need to find you, Louis, is to follow the corpses of rats (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I do love you and you know there is something very important we need to do as soon as possible (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

Why do I need a lawyer (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

You need a resolution, I need a resolution, (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

I need you tonight cause I'm not sleeping (Need You Tonight; performing artist: INXS)

I don't need a lot of things (I Need You; performing artist: LeAnn Rimes)

When I need love (When I Need You; performing artist: Leo Sayer)

‘Cause I need to know (I Need To Know; performing artist: Marc Anthony)

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it. (references; author: Bob Hope)

He who buys what he doesn't need steals from himself. (references; author: Swedish Proverb)

People in power need the power of prayer. (references; author: unknown)

I need someone real bad… Are you real bad? (references; author: unknown)

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. (references; author: unknown)

I need not your needles, they're needless to me; for kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see; but did my neat knickers but need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed. (references; author: unknown)

All You Need Is Money (1974)

That's All We Need (1971)

I Need (1967)

So You Think You Need Glasses (1942)

The Newlyweds Need Help (1928)

BABY I NEED YOUR LOVIN'  (performing artist: Four Tops )

What You Need (performing artist: INXS)

Need You Tonight (performing artist: INXS)

All I Need (performing artist: Jack Wagner)

I'm The One You Need (performing artist: Jody Watley)

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

Books

• Real Estate a LA Carte: Selecting the Services You Need, Paying What They're Worth (reference)

• The Low-Carb Cookbook: The Complete Guide to the Healthy Low-Carbohydrate Lifestyle: With over 250 Delicious Recipes, Everything You Need to Know Ab (reference)

• The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century: The Inside Information You Need to Know to Select a Home-Based Business That's Right for You (reference)

• ABCs of Hormones: What You Need to Know About Melatonin, Dhea, Pregnenolone, Sex Hormones, Hgh, Insulin, Thyroid, and More (Good Health Guides) (reference)

• The Complete Book of Running for Women: Everything You Need to Know About Training, Nutrition, Injury Prevention, Motivation, Racing and Much, Much M (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Certificate Of Need Program Monthly Status Report (reference)

• Need A Lift (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cardcaptors - Times of Need (Vol. 8) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Only Classical CD You'll Ever Need! (reference)

• The Only Opera CD You'll Ever Need ! (reference)

• All You Need Is Love: Beatles Songs for Kids (reference)

• I Need You [Bonus Tracks] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Paradyne Network Interface Module Only For Dial Need 50Pin To 50Pin Cable (reference)

• BACKUP AGENT FOR ORACLE 2.X SUPPORT ON ORACLE 7.1 NEED EBU (reference)

• Need For Speed (reference)

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

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

Five illustrations showing the methods of surgical treatment that may be used: lumpectomy; modified radical mastectomy; partial mastectomy (also called segmental mastectomy), radical mastectomy (also called Halsted radical mastectomy), and total (simple) mastectomy. These illustrations appeared in "What You Need to Know About Breast Cancer." See artwork WYTK-05. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (Artist).

By 1911, the staff had come to realize the need for a hospital connected to Gratwick laboratories. The result was the Cary Pavillion, a 30-bed hospital. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Summary of need to develop prevention strategies for emerging infectious diseases (quote, Dr. Joshua Lederberg). Credit: CDC.

A sono-radio-buoy developed to eliminate need for station boats RAR operations in the Gulf of Mexico Forerunner of Anti-submarine warfare sonobuoys. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Demonstrating oxygen mask. After arriving at 11,000 feet altitude fresh from sea level, one often feels the need to perk up a little with oxygen before starting the day's work. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Power block operator monitors the net as it comes aboard. If need be, he will stop the net in case of a problem. Credit: Fisheries.

A mooring buoy put in place by the restoration team prevented the need to to place large potentially damaging anchors on the reef. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Wetlands that need to be opened up to improved hydrology. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Compared to old hard hat diver, Exo mask diver doesn't need lead boots. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Soft corals, crinoids and sea pens need a hard spot for attachment. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Men who dwell without the forest need not henceforth come before our justiciaries of the forest upon a general summons, unless they are in plea, or sureties of one or more, who are attached for the forest. (reference)

First, How to resist force without striking again, or how to strike with reverence, will need some skill to make intelligible. (Second Treatise of Government)

The Communists have no need to introduce community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. (reference)

The Commission, assisted in case of need by the necessary forces, shall have general powers of administration. (reference)

We understand the Russian need to be secure on her western frontiers by the removal of all possibility of German aggression. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Illinois, stressed the need for protective devices to make the process of police interrogation conform to the dictates of the privilege. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You need not be afraid of unwholesome preserves here

There was no need for me to maintain the conversation

Meanwhile, there I was, a Surveyor of the Revenue, and, so far as I have been able to understand, as good a Surveyor as need be.

By the way, my friend, when you come again, you need not come through the garden

And Father Arnall had said that he need not study till the new glasses came

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse

An if they live, I hope I need not fear

Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action

I have already observed that they are subject to no diseases, and therefore can have no need of physicians

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You won't need dialysis. (references)

You don't need a machine. (references)

You need a healthy liver. (references)

Business

Payment terms need to be negotiated. (references)

These hospitals are in great need of upgrades. (references)

A deviation from the global norm need not be a bad sign. (references)

Children

Djibouti

Many schools are in poor condition and need upgrading. (references)

Hong Kong

A witness support program was launched that helps child witnesses in need. (references)

Ethiopia

Nevertheless there is a clear need for reform of the juvenile justice system. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

Foreign reporters need no special visas or government-issued press cards. (references)

Guatemala

Members of a religion need not register simply in order to worship together. (references)

Greece

The only government-funded center for asylum seekers was old and in need of repair. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

To access ETS, firms need to subscribe. (references)

Russia

While most are serviceable, almost all need upgrading. (references)

Eritrea

Hiring an agent may obviate the need for a local attorney. (references)

Human Rights

Mozambique

By law police need a warrant to enter homes and businesses. (references)

Russia

Many of the facilities were in urgent need of renovation and upgrading. (references)

Armenia

The court appoints an attorney for any indigent defendants who need one. (references)

Indigenous People

Mexico

In the 1996 San Andres accords, the Administration of then-President Zedillo agreed with the EZLN on the need to expand indigenous rights. (references)

Minorities

Portugal

Economic growth created a need for many workers, especially in the construction and service sectors. (references)

China

Graduates of these schools typically need 1 year or more of intensive Chinese before they can cope with course work at a Chinese-language university. (references)

Political Economy

BAHRAIN

Firms do not need to pre-qualify for smaller contacts. (references)

ARGENTINA

Firms need not obtain permission to invest in Argentina. (references)

Taiwan

The Chen Administration has emphasized the need for ending corruption. (references)

Political Rights

Laos

Candidates need not be LPRP members, but in practice almost all are. (references)

Malaysia

In defending its July ban on all political meetings, the Government noted that there was no need for the opposition to continue campaigning in a nonelection year. (references)

Malaysia

In June 1999, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi stated that there was no need to consult the opposition on the appointment of a new Election Commission chairman. (references)

Trade

Portugal

Imported goods need to be marked with an indication of origin. (references)

Argentina

U.S. exporters do not need to go through the EXIM application process. (references)

Honduras

Samples need not be registered with the DFC, nor are they required to be labeled. (references)

Travel

Colombia

All Colombians traveling to the United States need visas. (references)

Ghana

Areas on the outskirts may, however, need to store water in tanks. (references)

Saudi Arabia

One-time visitors on a single entry visa do not need an exit permit. (references)

Women

Jordan

Male Muslim heirs have the duty to provide for all family members who need assistance. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

There also were internationally funded crisis centers for women in need of such assistance in both Talas and Jalal-Abad. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

A severe social stigma is attached to female victims of domestic violence, who are shamed for their presumed bad behavior and need of correction. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

In practice many children work because families need the supplementary income. (references)

New Zealand

The act also promotes mediation and attempts to reduce the need for judicial intervention. (references)

Philippines

DOLE officials acknowledge that their 253 inspectors are not adequate for the number of work sites in need of visits. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "need": a friend in need is a friend indeed ♦ as a real need ♦ be desperately in need of smth. ♦ be in dire need of ♦ be in dire need of smth. ♦ be in direful need of ♦ be in need ♦ be in need of ♦ be in need of smth. ♦ be in urgent need of ♦ case of need ♦ causing need ♦ Certificate of Need ♦ do you need a hand? ♦ friend in need ♦ have need of ♦ have no need to do smth. ♦ he is urgently in need of help ♦ i need ♦ i need not ♦ i need not tell you that ♦ if need be ♦ in a sore need ♦ in case of need ♦ in dire need of ♦ in need ♦ in need be ♦ in one's utmost need ♦ in times of need ♦ may be in need of it ♦ meet a need ♦ must need ♦ need a lot of pressing ♦ need help ♦ need not ♦ need rest ♦ need smth. badly ♦ need smth. like a dose of salts ♦ need the spur ♦ no need ♦ no need for smth. ♦ no need to do smth. ♦ no need to get uptight about it! ♦ no need to thank ♦ one need not say ♦ pressing need ♦ satisfy a need ♦ should the need arise ♦ stand in need of ♦ stand in need of help ♦ standing in need ♦ the need ♦ there is need for ♦ there is no need ♦ there is no need for smth. ♦ there is no need to do smth. ♦ there's no need of it! ♦ urgent need to empty the bowels ♦ we need it badly ♦ what need is there to? ♦ you need a bit of dutch courage ♦ you need a change of scene. Additional references.

Beginning with "need": need-assessor, need-based, need-driven, need-fire, need-food, need-meeters, need-meeting, need-of, need-orientated, need-oriented, need-reducing, need-related, need-to-be-paid, need-to-have, need-to-know.

Ending with "need": call-by-need, client-need, investment-need, n-need, people-need, species-need.

Containing "need": no-need-to-clear-mask, no-need-to-soak, once-a-fortnight-whether-i-need-it-or-not, positive-but-need-to-be-paid-for-it.

Afrikaans

nodig hê (require), behoeftigheid (destitution, distress, indigence, penury), behoefte (want), behoef (require). (various references)

Albanian

nevojë (call, demand, exigency, maun, necessity, pinch, requirement, straits, want). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, indigence, lack, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, ruin, want), ‏فاقة (privation), ‏كان ضروريا, ‏حاجة (bareness, deficiency, necessity, poverty, requirement, want), ‏تطلب (ask, call, call for, claim, demand, exact, require, take, want), ‏عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation, want), ‏ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, oppression, parochial, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), ‏إحتاج (crave, demand, lack, require, run out, want), ‏شدة (adversity, exaltation, ferocity, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, rigor, solidity, strength, temperature, vehemence, violence, warmth). (various references)

Asturian

necesitar (to need). (various references)

Basque

behar ukan (need to). (various references)

Blackfoot

sstsina' (to need to). (various references)

Breton

ezhomm. (various references)

Bulgarian 

трябва (be obliged to, have, have to, must, ought, should, take, want), в мизерия съм, нужен ми е, нуждая се от (be in want of, call for, lack, require, want), нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, necessity, pinch, privation, requirement, use, want), необходимост (indispensability, instancy, necessary, necessity, perforce, requirement), потрябва ми (have need of), потребност (necessity, requisite, want), имам нужда от (want for). (various references)

Catalan

necessitar (require). (various references)

Cebuano

magkinahanglan (to need). (various references)

Chamorro

para ma nisisita (to need). (various references)

Chinese 

需要 (Entail, Entailed, Entailing, Needed, Needing, Needs), 需 (necessity, to need, to require, to want), 要有 (require), 待 (about, deal with, delay, intending to do something, stay, treat, wait). (various references)

Czech

potřebovat (require, want). (various references)

Danish

behov (want), behøve (require). (various references)

Dutch

nodig hebben (require), moeten (are supposed to, have to, must, need to, ought to, require, should), hoeven (require), behoeven (require). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

mutsuna (to need). (various references)

Esperanto

senhaveco (destitution, distress, indigence, penury), bezono (want), bezoni (require), bezonas. (various references)

Estonian

vajavad (they need). (various references)

Faeroese

nýtast (require), tørva (require), hava fyri neyðini (require). (various references)

Farsi 

نیازمندی (Dependency, Necessity, Requirement), نیازمندبودن , نیازداشتن (Require), نیاز (Necessity, Requirement, Want), لزوم (Exigency, Incumbency, Necessity, Supply), احتیاج (Lack, Necessity, Requirement), دراحتیاج داشتن . (various references)

Finnish

tarvita (be in need of, have need of, require). (various references)

Flemish

nodig. (various references)

French

besoin (necessity), indigence (neediness, needness), avoir besoin. (various references)

French Canadian

besoin. (various references)

Frisian

hoege (to need). (various references)

German

benötigen (require, to require, want), brauchen (be in need of smth., be necessary, do with, employ, make use of, require, take, to be in need of, turn to account, use, use up, want), Bedarf (demand, needs, requirement, requirements, requisites, want), Bedürfnis (appetite, call of nature, desire, necessity, requirement, urge, want, wish), not (affliction, destitution, difficulty, distress, emergency, hardship, misery, necessity, neediness, penury, poverty, pressure, privation, problem, trouble, want), nötig (necessary, needful, required). (various references)

Greek 

χρειάζομαι (do with, require, want), ανάγκη (constraint, necessitousness, necessity, neediness, occasion, requirement, requisiteness, want). (various references)

Guarani

napeikotevêipa (don't you need), aikotevê (I need). (various references)

Haitian Creole

bezwen. (various references)

Hebrew 

מחסור (deficiency, deprivation, insufficiency, lack, misery, paucity, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, want), מצוקה (adversity, distress, hardship, misery, straits, stress), להיות זקוק (want), להיות צריך (have to, must, ought, should), להצטרך, לצרוך (consume, require), שיג (occupation), הזקקות, הכרח (compulsion, necessity), הצטרך, הצטרכות (needing, requirement), דחק (emergency, pressure, stress), צורך (call, necessity, requirement, want), ספיקה (discharge, flow, possibility, satisfaction, sufficiency, supply), נחיצות (urgency). (various references)

Hungarian

szükséglet (necessity, needs, prime necessity, requisite, want), szükség (exigence, exigency, necessity, poverty, want), szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, indigence, necessity, pauperism, pauperization, penury, poorness, poverty), szűkölködés (destitution, privation, want, wantingness), súlyos helyzet (acute crisis), nehéz helyzet (a pretty pass, entanglement, fix, predicament, sod, strait, toughy). (various references)

Icelandic

vantar (lacks), þarf. (various references)

Indonesian

mendapat (find, gain, get, realize, reap, receive), memerlukan (require), keperluan (necessity, requisite, utility), kebutuhan (necessary, necessity), butuh (necesity). (various references)

Inuktitut

pijumalluni (to need). (various references)

Irish

gá. (various references)

Italian

bisogno (lack, necessity, requirement, want), aver bisogno di (lack, require, want). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ナパーム弾 (big-headed, caller ID, closest to pin, egotist, knee, knee-high socks, knee-length, knowledge, knowledge engineering, licence plate, NAFTA, Namibia, Nanking, Napa Valley, napalm bomb, naphtha, Naphthalin, napkin, Naples, napoleon, napolitain, narcism, Narcisse, narcissism, narcissist, narcist, narodniki, narration, narrator, narrow silhouette, narrow-band, narrowcasting, National Leaque, navigator, Navstar, near pin, near-miss, neat, needle, needs, Nicaragua, nice, Nichrome, Nielsen, niobium, nonsense, nonsense comedy, nourish, nourishing cream, nourishment, number, number display, number eight, number one, number plate, numbering, numbering machine, nymphe, stuck-up person), 入用 (demand, necessity, requirement), 入り用 (demand, necessity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ニード , にゅうよう (demand, necessity, requirement), いりよう (demand, necessity). (various references)

Kongo

ku-vwa mfunu (to need). (various references)

Korean 

필요 (Needs). (various references)

Macedonian

treba (to need). (various references)

Malagasy

tokony. (various references)

Malay

perlu (necessary, require), keperluan (want). (various references)

Manx

ymmyrchagh (destitute, indigent, necessary, needful), raghtanys (indigence, rigour, want), lhiass (advantage, advantage upper hand, benefit, profit, welfare), feme (exigence, necessity, requirement, requisite, want), boghtynid (jargon, nonsense, poverty, shabbiness), arkys (affliction, difficulty, distress, hardship, misfortune). (various references)

Norwegian

trenger. (various references)

Occitan

far mestièr. (various references)

Papiamen

mester (have to, must, ought to, require, should), mesté (require). (various references)

Pig Latin

eednay.(various references)

Polish

potrzebować (require). (various references)

Portuguese

necessidade (call, lack, must, necessary, necessity, poverty, requirement, requisite, want, washroom), precisão (exactitude, exactness, precision, want), necessitar (ask, demand, lack, necessitate, require, want). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

necessitamos (we need), precisar (to need). (various references)

Provencal

far mestièr (to need). (various references)

Romanian

nevoie (business, call, demand, destitution, difficulty, lack, necessity, poverty, straits, trouble, want), nevoi, nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, evil, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, reverse, rod, scourge, sore, trouble), necesitate (call, demand, must, necessity, requirement, want), necesitãţi, necesita (ask, call, claim, demand, have, infer, involve, necessitate, require, want), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, evil, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), trebuinţã (call, lack, necessity, requirement), trebui (can, have, have got, must, ought), reclama (ask, call for, claim, demand, denounce, necessitate, reclaim, repeat, require), fi nevoie, fi necesar, fi cazul, dificultate (ado, complication, crux, difficulty, doubt, hardness, hardship, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, inconvenience, ponderosity, ticklishness, trouble), avea nevoie de (demand, have need of, necessitate, require, stand in need of, want). (various references)

Ruanda

gukenera (to need). (various references)

Russian 

требоваться (be requested, want), нужно необходимость нужно, нуждаться (be badly off, demand, lack, want), нужда (beggary, destitution, dire necessity, distress, hardship, indigence, necessity, privation), надобность (necessity), потребность (requirement, want), иметь потребность. (various references)

Samoan

e manaomia (to need). (various references)

Scottish

feum (must, needs must : am feum, use, want). (various references)

Sepedi

hloka (to need). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nužnost (certainty, necessity), nužda (necessity, want), nemaština (distress, indigence, poverty), trebati (be necessary, ought, suppose), potreba (call, exigency, requisite, want), oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, penury, privation, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage), muka (anguish, annoyance, limbo, nausea, qualm, queasiness, torment), biti potreban (behoove). (various references)

Spanish

necesitar (lack, necessitate, require, take, want), necesidad (desire, hunger, necessity, neediness, pinch, poverty, requirement, starvation, straits, want), indigencia (destitution, distress, indigence, misery, necessity, penury, poverty, want). (various references)

Swahili

haja (want). (various references)

Swazi

kú-dzinga (to need). (various references)

Swedish

behov (desideratum, lack, necessity, needs, requirement, requiring, requirment, requisite, want), behöva (have to, require, want), nöd (destitution, distress, necessity, neediness, want), brist (absence, dearth, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, desideratum, destitution, disadvantage, failing, failure, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, poverty, scarcity, scarity, shortage, shortcoming, short-fall, want, warp). (various references)

Tagalog

kailangang (need to). (various references)

Thai

ต้องการ (ask, exact, lack, like, require, take), ความต้องการ (necessity, request, requirement, requisition), จำเป็น (essential, necessary, necessitous, requisite). (various references)

Turkish

gerek (exigence, exigency, necessity, pinch, requirement, requisition). (various references)

Turkmen 

zerurlyk, mдtдз bolmak, hal-ahwal (health, situation), hajat (want). (various references)

Ukrainian

злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, misery, neediness, penury, privation), потреба (demand, hunger, necessity, requirement, want), потребувати (affect, cost, crave, require, suppose, want), прагнення (affectation, ambition, anxiety, appetency, appetition, aspiration, aspiring, craving, desire, gravitation, hanker, hunger, libido, nisus, objective), біда (affliction, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, evil, mischief, misfortune), бідність (bareness, humility, meanness, misery, necessity, penury, poorness, poverty, shabbiness, tenuity, underprivilege), бідувати (want), потреби, бути необхідним (be necessary), терпіти нужду, запити (take to drink), заслуговувати (deserve, earn, exact, merit), мати потребу, недостача (absence, dearth, failure, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, shortness, want), нестатки (hardship), нужда (destitution, indigence, necessity, neediness, privation, want), важке становище, бути потрібним (want). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cần tình cảnh túng thiếu, sự đi đái (urination), lúc khó khăn. (various references)

Welsh

eisiau (lack, want). (various references)

Zulu

-dinga (require). (various references)

a�te. (various references)

desiderabant, desiderabat, desiderabis, desiderabit, desiderabunt, desideramus, desiderans, desiderant, desiderantes, desiderantibus, desiderantis, desiderantium, desiderare, desideras, desiderasti, desiderastis, desiderat, desiderati, desideratus, desideraveram, desideraverat, desideraveris, desideraverunt, desideravi, desideravimus, desideravit, desideres, desideret, desiderium, desidero, difficultas, dipundio, egebunt, egemus, egens, egent, egentem, egentes, egenti, egentis, egentium, egere, egerem, egeris, egestas, egestate, egestatem, egestatis, eget, eguerunt, indigeas, indigebant, indigebit, indigemus, indigens, indigent, indigenti, indigentiam, indigentis, indigeo, indigeremus, indigeret, indiges, indiget, indigetis, indiguerit, indiguerunt, inopia, inopiae, inopiam, necessitas, necessitate, necessitatem, necessitates, necessitati, necessitatibus, necessitatis, opera, opere, operi, operibus, operis, operum, opus, opusque, paupertas, paupertate, paupertatem, paupertatis, paupertatula, penuria, penuriam, requiram, requirant, requiras, requirat, require, requirebant, requirendi, requirendos, requirendum, requirens, requirent, requirentes, requirentibus, requirere, requireres, requireret, requiret, requiretis, requiretur, requirit, requirite, requiro, requirunt, requisierit, requisierunt, requisissent, requisisset, requisisti, requisita, requisitus, requisivi, requisivit. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "need": needed, needer, needers, needful, needfully, needfulness, needfulnesses, needfuls, needier, neediest, needily, neediness, needinesses, needing, needle, needled, needlefish, needlefishes, needlelike, needlepoint, needlepoints, needler, needlers, needles, needless, needlessly, needlessness, needlessnesses, needlewoman, needlewomen, needlework, needleworker, needleworkers, needleworks, needling, needlings, needs, needy. (additional references)

Words ending with "need": gratineed, kneed. (additional references)

Words containing "need": unneeded. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Need" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eed, enced, ende, ened, enet, enew, enod, jeed, nade, Naeem, Najd, Naledi, Naqd, Naud, nawed, nayed, ndeed, Ndeh, Ndev, ne, neac, nead, neah, Neau, neaz, nec, ned, Neda, Nede, nedel, Nedem, neder, Nedev, nedi, nedn, neeb, neede, needn, Neef, neeh, neej, Neek, neel, neen, neep, Neer, ne-er, nees, neet, Neeta, neev, neez, neh, nei, neid, neiw, neiz, nej, neld, Nemea, Nemet, Nenet, neod, neox, neoz, neq, Nered, neu, Neuadd, neud, neuen, neuk, Neum, nev, newd, newed, nexe, nexer, neyed, nez, nged, Ngee, Nhe, niad, nided, nied, Nieddu, nieh, niem, nieo, niep, niet, Nieux, niev, niod, noad, noed, noex, noid, nre, nyd, nyr, Nze, uneed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dene.

-1 letter: dee, den, end, nee.

-2 letters: de, ed, en, ne.

+1 letter: denes, dense, diene, donee, emend, ended, ender, endue, kneed, needs, needy, undee.

+2 letters: aedine, aneled, anteed, beaned, bended, bendee, bender, blende, censed, deaden, deafen, deaned, debone, decane, decent, decern, deepen, deewan, defend, define, demean, dement, dengue, denied, denier, denies, denned, denote, denser, dented, denude, depend, depone, detent, devein, dienes, donees, donnee, dudeen, duende, earned, edenic, emends, encode, endear, enders, endite, endive, endued, endues, endure, ennead, ensued, enured, envied, evened, expend, extend, fenced, fended, fender, gender, hented, indeed, indene, keened, kenned, kerned, leaden, leaned, legend, lender, lensed, mended, mender, mensed, neared, necked, needed, needer, needle, neoned, nereid, nerved, nested, netted, omened, opened, peened, peined, pended, penned, redden, redeny, redone, reined, relend, remend, rended, render, rented, resend, seined, sended, sender, sensed, tended, tender, tensed, tented, veined, vended, vendee, vender, vendue, venged, vented, weaned, wedeln, weened, wended, yeaned, yenned.