Term: dearth: an acute insufficiency
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: dioxin: any of several toxic or carcinogenic hydrocarbons that occur as impurities in herbicides
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: quantification: a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no')
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: sister-in-law: the sister of your spouse
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: multiversity: a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: genus zoysia: lawn grasses native to southeastern Asia and New Zealand; grown especially in warm regions
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: holder: a holding device
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: knock-knee: an inward slant of the thigh
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: question time: a period during a parliamentary session when members of British Parliament may ask questions of the ministers
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: conventicle: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship
Broader: lack: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Unrelated: spongioblast: any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia