10 Letter Words for Scarceness
scarceness
9 Letter Words for Scarceness
ancresses
8 Letter Words for Scarceness
accesses, caresses, casernes, cassenes, creances, necessar, reaccess, searness
7 Letter Words for Scarceness
accerse, ancress, anseres, ascence, asceses, cancers, careens, caserne, caserns, cassene, ccesser, censers, cessers, creance, creases, cresses, encases, enraces, ensears, recanes, rescans, sarsens, scarcen, scernes, screens, seances, searces, secerns, senecas
6 Letter Words for Scarceness
access, aesces, cancer, caners, careen, carene, caress, carses, casern, ceases, censer, censes, cernes, cesare, cesser, cesses, crance, cranes, crases, crease, crenae, crenas, easers, ecrase, encase, enrace, ensear, erases, escars, essera, nacres, nasser, nesses, rances, ranees, ranses, rasses, recane, recase, recces, recess, rescan, sarsen, scance, scarce, scares, scenas, scenes, scerne, scraes, scrans, screen, screes, seance, searce, seases, secern, secess, seneca, senses, seracs, serena, snares, sneers
5 Letter Words for Scarceness
acers, acnes, acres, ancre, anser, arces, arnee, asses, caese, caner, canes, cares, carne, carns, carse, caser, cases, casse, cease, cense, ceras, ceres, cerne, cesar, cesse, crane, crans, crass, creen, crena, cresc, cress, earns, easer, eases, erase, ernes, erses, escar, esnes, essen, esses, nacre, narcs, nares, nears, races, rance, ranee, rasen, rasse, reans, recce, reens, sacre, saner, sanes, sasse, scans, scare, scarn, scars, scase, scena, scene, scrae, scran, scree, seans, seare, sears, sease, secre, seers, senas, sence, sensa, sense, serac, seres, sessa, snare, snars, sneer, snees
4 Letter Words for Scarceness
acce, acer, aces, acne, acre, ance, anes, anre, arcs, aren, ares, asse, assn, cace, canc, cane, cans, care, carn, cars, case, cass, ceas, ceca, cees, cene, cens, cera, cere, cern, cess, cran, cres, eans, earn, ears, ease, ecce, enes, ense, eras, eres, erne, erns, erse, esca, eses, esne, esse, nace, narc, nare, near, neer, nese, ness, nsec, race, rane, rean, recs, reen, rees, sacs, sane, sans, sare, sars, sass, scan, scar, sean, sear, seas, secs, seen, seer, sees, sena, sene, sens, sere, sers, sese, sess, snar, snee, srac
3 Letter Words for Scarceness
acc, ace, aer, aes, anc, ane, ans, arc, are, arn, ars, ase, ass, can, car, cee, cen, cer, cns, crc, crs, csc, ean, ear, eas, ecc, eec, een, eer, enc, ene, ens, era, ere, ern, ers, esc, ese, esr, ess, nae, nar, nas, nea, nee, ran, ras, rea, rec, ree, res, rna, sac, san, sar, scr, sea, sec, see, sen, ser, sse
Definitions for Scarceness
[1] insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant: Meat and butter were scarce during the war.
[2] seldom met with; rare: a scarce book.
[3] scarcely.
[4] make oneself scarce , Informal . to depart, especially suddenly. to stay away; avoid.
[5] rarely encountered
[6] insufficient to meet the demand
[7] make oneself scarce informal to go away, esp suddenly
[8] archaic , or literary scarcely
Words related to Scarceness
scarcelimited, rare, scanty, deficient, sparse, scant, sporadic, failing, few, occasional, seldom, short, shy, uncommon, unusual, wanting, truncated
Words nearby Scarceness
scarcescarabaeoid, scarabaeus, scaramouch, scarborough, scarborough lily, scarce, scarce as hen's teeth, scarcely, scarcely ever, scarcement, scarcity
Origin of Scarceness
1250–1300; Middle English scars < Old North French (e)scars < Vulgar Latin *excarpsus plucked out, for Latin excerptus; see excerpt
Words that may be confused with Scarceness
WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, scarceextinct, rare, scarce
Other words from Scarceness
scarce·ness , noun
un·scarce , adjective
un·scarce·ly , adverb
un·scarce·ness , noun
Word origin for Scarceness
C13: from Old Norman French scars, from Vulgar Latin excarpsus (unattested) plucked out, from Latin excerpere to select; see excerpt
Synonyms for Scarceness
curtailment, dearth, defalcation, defect, deficiency, deficit, failure, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, leanness, paucity, pinch, poverty, scantiness, scantness, scarcity, shortcoming, shortfall, tightness, want, weakness, underage
