Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| ambition | aspiration after success or advancement; (verb) to be ambitious of, desire strongly. |
| appetence | strong craving or powerful desire. |
| appetency | strong craving or powerful desire. |
| appetent | having strong desires. |
| appetible | desirable. |
| appetition | (Arch.) direction of desire. |
| appetitive | having or giving an appetite. |
| aspire | to have an earnest desire or ambition. |
| aspiring | desiring, aiming at. |
| aspiringly | (Adv.) ASPIRING. |
| besoin | (Fr.) need, want, desire. |
| brame | (Spenser) a fierce longing. |
| conation | mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose. |
| conational | relating to conation, mental effort towards a goal. |
| conative | relating to purposeful action or desire. |
| covet | to desire greatly. |
| covetable | that may be coveted. |
| coveter | one who covets. |
| covetingly | (Adv.) COVETING. |
| covetise | (Obs.) covetousness; ardent desire. |
| covetous | very desirous; eager to obtain. |
| covetously | (Adv.) COVETOUS, eager to obtain. |
| crave | to desire greatly. |
| craver | one who craves. |
| cupidinous | full of desire, amorous. |
| cupidity | avarice, greed. |
| desiderate | to desire; to feel the want of. |
| desideration | the act of desiderating. |
| desiderative | implying desire; (noun) something desirable. |
| desideratum | (Lat.) something considered necessary or desirable. |
| desiderium | longing or yearning. |
| desirable | to be desired (noun) something desirable |
| desirableness | the state of being desirable. |
| desirably | (Adv.) DESIRABLE, to be desired. |
| desire | to wish for. |
| desireless | free from desire. |
| desirer | one who desires. |
| desirous | desiring. |
| desirously | (Adv.) DESIROUS, with desire. |
| desirousness | the state of being desirous. |
| egence | the state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. |
| egency | the state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. |
| envier | one who envies. |
| grein | (Scots) to long, yearn. |
| hanker | to want, yearn for. |
| hankerer | one who hankers. |
| hunger | desire for food (verb) to crave |
| hungerly | (Shakesp.) hungry, hungrily. |
| long | extending for a considerable distance ) LENGER, LONGEST or (obs.) LENGEST, LONGLY; (adv.) for a long time; (verb) to desire strongly |
| longing | a strong desire. |
| longingly | (Adv.) LONGING, having a strong desire. |
| lust | strong desire (verb) to have an intense desire |
| mindedness | an inclination to do something. |
| moreish | such that one wants more. |
| morish | such that one wants more. |
| necessitous | needful, in need. |
| necessitously | (Adv.) NECESSITOUS, needful, in need. |
| needer | one who needs. |
| needful | necessary (noun) something that is needful |
| needfully | (Adv.) NEEDFUL, necessary. |
| nill | (Arch.) not to will; to refuse. |
| outwill | to surpass in willing. |
| outwish | to surpass in wishing. |
| pine | any tree of the north temperate coniferous genus Pinus (verb) to yearn intensely |
| prerequire | to require beforehand. |
| prevenancy | courteous anticipation of others' wishes. |
| requere | (Spenser) to require. |
| require | to have need of. |
| requirer | one who requires. |
| requisite | required (noun) something necessary |
| requisitely | (Adv.) REQUISITE. |
| undesired | not desired. |
| undesiring | not desiring. |
| undesirous | not desirous. |
| unwanted | not wanted. |
| unwill | to annul or reverse by an act of the will. |
| unwish | (Shakesp.) to wish not to be. |
| unwishful | not wishful. |
| velleity | volition at its faintest. |
| volition | the act of will. |
| volitional | relating to volition. |
| volitionally | (Adv.) VOLITIONAL, relating to volition. |
| volitionary | relating to volition. |
| volitionless | without volition. |
| wanderlust | (Ger.) an urge to travel from place to place. |
| wanna | (Coll.) want to. |
| want | to have a desire for. |
| wanter | one who wants. |
| will | to decide upon used as an auxiliary followed by a simple infinitive to express futurity, inclination, likelihood, or requirement 2d person WOULD, WOULDEST, or WOULDST. |
| willer | one who wills. |
| willing | ready to comply. |
| willingly | (Adv.) WILLING, ready to comply. |
| wish | to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something. |
| wisher | one who wishes. |
| wishful | desirous. |
| wishfully | (Adv.) WISHFUL, desirous. |
| wishless | without a wish. |
| wiss | to wish. |
| wistful | yearning. |
| wistfulness | the state of being wistful. |
| wistly | (Shakesp.) longingly. |
| would | the desired, the intended. |
| wull | (Dial.) to will. |
| yearn | to have a strong or deep desire. |
| yearner | one who yearns. |
| yearning | a strong or deep desire. |
| yearningly | (Adv.) YEARNING. |
| yen | a Japanese unit of currency; (verb) to desire or yearn. |