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Showing words for REQUIRE using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Require

querier, require

6 Letter Words for Require

querre

5 Letter Words for Require

queer, quire

4 Letter Words for Require

eire, erer, erie, eure, iure, qere, qeri, quei, rier, ruer

3 Letter Words for Require

eer, eir, ere, err, ire, que, qui, ree, rei, req, rie, rue, ure

Definitions for Require

[1] to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
[2] to call on authoritatively; order or enjoin to do something: to require an agent to account for money spent.
[3] to ask for authoritatively or imperatively; demand.
[4] to impose need or occasion for; make necessary or indispensable: The work required infinite patience.
[5] to call for or exact as obligatory; ordain: The law requires annual income-tax returns.
[6] to place under an obligation or necessity: The situation requires me to take immediate action.
[7] Chiefly British . to desire; wish to have: Will you require tea at four o'clock?
[8] to demand; impose obligation: to do as the law requires.
[9] to have need of; depend upon; want
[10] to impose as a necessity; make necessary this work requires precision
[11] (also intr) to make formal request (for); insist upon or demand, esp as an obligation
[12] to call upon or oblige (a person) authoritatively; order or command to require someone to account for his actions

Words related to Require

lack, oblige, compel, request, involve, instruct, obligate, take, demand, cause, order, expect, desire, wish, crave, miss, claim, beseech, entail, bid

Words nearby Require

request stop, requiem, requiem shark, requiescat, requiescat in pace, require, requirement, requisite, requisition, requital, requite

Origin of Require

1300–50; Middle English requiren < Latin requīrere, equivalent to re- re- + -quīrere, combining form of quaerere to seek, search for (cf. quest)

Other words from Require

re·quir·a·ble , adjective
re·quir·er , noun
non·re·quir·a·ble , adjective
pre·re·quire , verb (used with object), pre·re·quired, pre·re·quir·ing.
qua·si-re·quired , adjective
un·re·quired , adjective

Word origin for Require

C14: from Old French requerre , from Vulgar Latin requaerere (unattested) to seek after, from Latin requīrere to seek to know, but also influenced by quaerere to seek

Synonyms for Require

lack, crave, desire, miss, wish, depend upon, feel necessity for, have need, hurting for, stand in need