| distress(noun, pass, difficulty, failure, want) |
| emptiness(noun, pass, passion, desire, difficulty) |
| exigency(noun, need, lack, inadequacy, absence) |
| fewness(lack, smallness, scarcity, scantiness, rareness) |
| flyspeck(noun, insufficiency) |
| food shortage(noun, expression, idiom, want, deprivation) |
| inanition(noun, insufficiency, hunger, undernourishment) |
| indigence(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| insolvency(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| neediness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| no food(noun, expression, state, want, hunger) |
| pauperism(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| pennilessness(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| pinch(noun, pass, difficulty, distress, failure) |
| pittance(noun, insufficiency) |
| scantness(lack, deficiency, shortage, scarcity, insufficiency) |
| sparseness(noun, lack, smallness, scarcity, insufficiency) |
| speck(noun, insufficiency) |
| starving(verb, hunger) |
| undersupply |