lack¹ /lak/

1. Want, deficiency
2. Something absent or in short supply

1. To be without
2. To be short of or deficient in
3. To need
4. To miss (obsolete)

1. (now usu in prp) to be wanting or absent
2. To be deficient
3. To be in want (obsolete)

lackˈing adjective

lackˈ-all noun (archaic)

Someone who is destitute

lackˈ-beard noun

lackˈ-brain noun (Shakespeare)

A fool

lackˈland noun and adjective

lackˈ-Latin noun (obsolete; often Sir John Lack-Latin)

An ignorant priest

adjective

Uneducated, ignorant

lackˈ-linen adjective (Shakespeare)

Without linen

lackˈ-love noun

Someone who is deficient in love (also adjective)

lackˈlustre or US lackˈluster adjective

Dull, without brightness, sheen or vitality (also noun)

• sampler-works
• samplery
• samples
• sample space
• sample spaces
• sampling
• sampling error
• sampling errors
• sampling frame
• sampling frames
• samplings
• samps
• samsara
• samsaras
• samsaric
• samshoo
• samshoos
• samshu
• so to speak
• sots
• sotted
• sotting
• sottings
• sottish
• sottishly