Desire - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 13/11/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Desire.

8 letter answer(s) to desire

APPETITE
  1. a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life"; "the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible"- Granville Hicks
YEARNING
  1. desire strongly or persistently
  2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
  3. have affection for; feel tenderness for
  4. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
  5. wish or long for

5 letter answer(s) to desire

COVET
  1. wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"
CRAVE
  1. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  2. plead or ask for earnestly
  3. Yearn
YEARN
  1. desire strongly or persistently
  2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
  3. have affection for; feel tenderness for
  4. wish or long for

4 letter answer(s) to desire

EROS
  1. (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
  2. a desire for sexual intimacy
  3. Minor planet or asteroid. Second largest near-Earth object.
HOPE
  1. a specific instance of feeling hopeful; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant"
  2. be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well"
  3. expect and wish; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise"
  4. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover"
  5. intend with some possibility of fulfilment; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening"
  6. one of the three Christian virtues
  7. someone (or something) on which expectations are centered; "he was their best hope for a victory"
  8. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"
ITCH
  1. a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation; "he has a bad case of the itch"
  2. a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"
  3. an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch
  4. cause to perceive an itch; "his skin itched"
  5. have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight"
  6. have or perceive an itch; "I'm itching--the air is so dry!"
  7. scrape or rub as if to relieve itching; "Don't scratch your insect bites!"
LUST
  1. a strong sexual desire
  2. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  3. self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
URGE
  1. a strong restless desire; "why this urge to travel?"
  2. an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"
  3. force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies"
  4. push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
  5. spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"
WANT
  1. a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire"
  2. a state of extreme poverty
  3. anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
  4. be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"
  5. feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"
  6. have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
  7. hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
  8. the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"
  9. wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"
WISH
  1. (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes"
  2. a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire"
  3. an expression of some desire or inclination; "I could tell that it was his wish that the guests leave"; "his crying was an indirect request for attention"
  4. feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of
  5. hope for; have a wish; "I wish I could go home now"
  6. invoke upon; "wish you a nice evening"; "bid farewell"
  7. make or express a wish; "I wish that Christmas were over"
  8. order politely; express a wish for
  9. prefer or wish to do something;
  10. the particular preference that you have; "it was his last wish"; "they should respect the wishes of the people"

7 letter answer(s) to desire

HOPEFOR
PINEFOR

6 letter answer(s) to desire

THIRST
  1. a physiological need to drink
  2. feel the need to drink
  3. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  4. strong desire for something (not food or drink); "a thirst for knowledge"; "hunger for affection"

3 letter answer(s) to desire

YEN
  1. a yearning for something or to do something
  2. have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover"
  3. Longing
  4. the basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Desire'

"A waking dream": Aristot
"A waking dream," accordi
"Aeneid" figure
"Aphrodite and ___" (clas
"Keep ___ alive!"
"Love surfeits not, ___ l
"The Seven Year ___"
"Theogony" figure
"___ springs eternal"
*Birthday secret
A deadly sin
A drive through Paris or Edinburgh in reverse
A good breakfast, but a b
A mongrel had to be ordered to cover king in blanket
A portion of scrambled egg on salmon's picked up and necked
Aching
Achingly desire
Action before blowing out
Addict's bugbear
Advocate
Allergic reaction
Allergy consequence
Ambition in Dutch Opera?
Amor's Greek counterpart
An elephant has a big one
Angry about this London statue
Antony's faithful aide, i
Any entry on a Dear Santa
Appetite
Arab country offloading Middle East currency
Archer who aims for the h
Ardent love
Ardent wish
Arrow shooter
Asian capital
Asian capital?
Aspiration
Aspiration fellow’s had about work
Asteroid discovered in 18
Asteroid first seen in 18
Asteroid landed on in 200
Asteroid on which a NASA
Asteroid viewed by the NE
Athlete's foot symptom
Attempt to sell lacking power and desire
Awful slut's sexual desire
… inducing this in fluster?
Baby taking a bow?
Basic desire
Be lovesick
Be optimistic
Beast involved in Bataclan crime
Beg; long for
Bill Clinton's birthplace
Birthday creation
Bite result, say
Bookshop evidently stocks this English writer
Bow and arrow carrier
Bow-wielding deity
Bow-wielding god
Boy armed with bows and a
Boy who's bowed
Break the Tenth Commandme
Buried in breadfruit, chrysalides are dying
Capital of Honshu
Carnal desire
Carrier of a bow and arro
Cash in Kyoto
Cast wearer
Cast wearer's frustration
Champion lacking height succeeded in love
Chance for success
Character not the first to get urge
Children's game with children a bit of a pain
Chit-chat conceals irritation
Chuck’s missing 500 yen
Circus attraction in London aching to travel north
Circus figure's painful back
Climber stuck on top of Everest might have this
Clinton's birthplace
Cockney idol’s famous London statue
Coin with kanji writing
Commit a deadly sin
Common companion of a dry
Compulsion
Compulsive desire
Computers etc starting to cause headaches and irritation
Conservative Party long for ...
Conservative party's desire?
Controversial 1960's maga
Counterpart of Thanatos,
Covet
Crave
Craving
Craving a little quiet inside
Craving beer at last in the present time
Craving for drink
Craving for flour - is it regular?
Craving sex before church
Craving the last bit of stretchy netting
Crone a non-starter in desire
Crosby partner
Crossed fingers symbolize
Cupid
Cupid's counterpart
Cupid's Greek counterpart
Cupid, son of Aphrodite
Cupid, to the Greeks
Currency of China
Dad's upset, having little enthusiasm
Daring 1960's Ralph Ginzb
Dart shooter
Deity with a bow and arro
Depraved desire
Dermatological concern
Dermatologist's concern
Desire - deficiency
Desire a bit of sunshine in most of the days of November
Desire badly?
Desire deeply
Desire for drink
Desire for food
Desire for food Dad’s shown on return — pretty small?
Desire for water
Desire heterosexual embraces
Desire intensely
Desire is bringing wife and husband together
Desire man with Tarzan's face
Desire of head changing study
Desire personified
Desire purification - but not at first
Desire revealed in chit-chat
Desire short journey east
Desire singer to shake tin
Desire subtle changes be removed?
Desire that’s in our genes
Desire to do one large American tenor
Desire to drink
Desire to get rid of … to get rid of piano
Desire to marry, wanting first husband
Desire to remove wrapping from Big Mac, perhaps
Desire to show Apple title learners missed?
Desire, but with little morality
Desperately want
Desperately want to be in Conservative Party?
Dog without lead is an irritation
Dream
Drive
Drive or sweep? Somerset's opener lost
Eager longing
Eagerly desire
Earthy desire
Edit choral piece that's really long?
Egg
Egg on
Egg on some burgers
Encourage
Encourage (to do something)
Encourage caviar maker: just take heart
Encourage clearout after removal of leader
Encourage heading away from sudden rise in water
Encourage; impulse
English-born US comedian, d. 2003
Exhort
Expect and desire
Expectation
Expectation and desire
Express a desire
Fancy
Fancy Conservative party
Fancy making yen first
Fancy redhead in Neanderthal's place?
Fancy unspecified number occupying temple
Far Eastern bread
Far Eastern capital
February 14 figure
February figure
Feel a need for wife to meet social worker
Feel desire
Feel great desire
Feel great need for Conservative party?
Feel nostalgia, e.g.
Feel the ___
Feel wistful
Feeling of expectant desire
Feeling of irritation in suit, chafing
Feeling of optimism
Female dog losing head in desire
Figure who may inflame aching back
First asteroid landed on
First near-Earth asteroid
Fountain request?
Freud's libido
Genie's offering
Ginza currency
Give a little push
Give a nudge, so to speak
Go without
Goad
God hurt back
God is angry on being overthrown
God makes mistakes over replacing king
God of love
God offended by Daphnis
God often depicted unclot
God swiftly abandons aerospace
Great desire
Greek counterpart of 27-D
Greek Cupid
Greek deity
Greek equivalent of Cupid
Greek god
Greek god of love
Greek god sometimes pictu
Greek god who figures in
Greek god with a bow and
Greek god, resentful, rises
Greek god, son of Aphrodite
Greek love god
Greek mythology figure
Hanker
Hanker (for)
Hankering
Have a burning desire to throw Pence out
Have a craving for
Have a hankering
Have a strong desire
Have a strong desire for
Have a yen for
Have the munchies for
Have too little
He hits you, you're smitten!
Head going off to purge press
Hope
Hunger
Hunger (for)
Hunger for
Husband following Women’s Institute’s fancy
Impatient desire
Impatient desire to behead a sorceress
Impel
Implore
Importune
Impulse
Inner drive
Insatiable desire
Instinctive desire
Intense longing
Intensely desire
Irritating skin sensation
Irritation
Irritation caused by topless jerk
Irritation of the skin
Irritation starts to concern him after sex
It may be irresistible
It may be made by a starg
It might bring you up to
It stayed in Pandora's bo
It's a sensation
It's a sin
It's issued by the Nippon
It's made in Japan
It's often made with the
Itch
Its symbol is a "Y" with
Japanese bread
Japanese capital
Japanese currency
Japanese currency unit
Japanese moolah
Kind of ad
Kobe cash
Kobe currency
Kyoto capital
Kyoto cash
Kyoto currency
Kyoto kale
Lack, deficiency
Left-wingers in Italian towns campaigned hard and long
Libidinous deity
Libido
Libido, in psychiatry
Life force, to Freud
Life instinct, to Freud
Liking
Liking small area at the front with parking
Limited number concealing onset of such longing
London statue originally
London statue painful to knock over
Long
Long (for)
Long and yellow, with no tail
Long dog with no head
Long drain beginning to dry out
Long for
Long for clubs to go wild
Long for oxygen during hard exercise
Long grass totally pointless
Long hold-up after the start
Long lead taken from back of Macintosh
Long letter needing its introduction cut
Long party held after college
Long period before November
Long period of time before noon
Long period of time that’s new? (and a hint to eight other clues)
Long right jabs this close to heavyweight
Long story about Eeyore’s tail
Long story about Eeyore, primarily
Long story about end of Empire
Long story describing the end of empire
Long story entertains beginning to end
Long story interrupted by hysterics in the middle
Long story: ear needs boxing
Long tale about Melibee, ultimately
Long throw dismissing opener
Long throw needing power
Long throw striking opener
Long time associated with a YBA
Long time before noon
Long time before November
Long time with artist
Long to have
Long to make some money after end of study
Long to marry after losing first husband
Long twelve months before end of recession
Long twelvemonth at end of campaign
Longing
Longing for 20 in Osaka?
Longing for money overseas
Longing to be picking up information after new start
Longing to remove initiator of political clean-up
Longing to thumb a lift in part of London?
Love
Love child
Love child?
Love deity
Love fragrant flower close to nose
Love god
Love god angry when rejected
Love hurting after rejection
Love inspirer
Love personified
Love symbol
Love this statue? Turning angry
Love to have sex, not about to retreat
Love's inspiration
Lover boy angry after rejection
Lover boy barred from beerhouse on a regular basis
Lover boy?
Lover who abandoned Psych
Lust after
Lustful god
Man retains work in aspiration
Measles symptom
Miss badly
Money for a Toyota, say
Money in Tokyo
Money we earn in eastern parts?
More than suggest
Motivation
Nagging desire
Nails' target
Name hidden in seven othe
Name of woman parking in garden
Natural impulse
Need
Need for drink
Need husband not to start putting on weight
Need to drink
Nikkei average currency
Nikkei currency
Offspring of Chaos, to He
Old comedian's dance, ending in glide
Old man from the east with little desire for food?
Old man making climb with little desire
Olympic archer
One might lose it in a cr
One of Pandora's finds
One of seven in the film
One of the primal gods in
One taking a bow?
Opposite of Thanatos, to
Optimism
Optimistic desire, 1/100?
Oscar Wilde poem "The Gar
Pain when running, having to lose stone? That’s an irritation
Painful back for love god
PANT
Pant - pine
Passion personified
Passionate desire
Personification of desire
Persuade
Pessimist's lack
Piccadilly Circus statue
Piccadilly Circus stature
Pine
Pine resin has the top left off
Pine tree finally included in story
Plead for
Point out emperor's a god
Pointless change causes irritation
Poison ivy symptom
Positive expectation
Poverty
Power of love
Press
Press crumpled rug with energy
Press cull removing head
Press for
Press for admission to surgery
Press on
Press to take one game for review
Press upon
Prickle
Prickly heat symptom
Priest admitted to a slight desire
Primate eats little from abroad … lacking this?
Privation
Problem for a suited-up d
Problem with hives
Prod
Psyche's love
Psyche's lover
Push
Push for
Push prow of gondola into river
Raise tender for statue
Rash problem
Rash reaction?
Really want
Really, really want
Recommend
Recommend strongly
Relish
Request one’s placed between wife and husband
Restless desire
Restlessness
Result of a bite, maybe
Result of a flea, maybe
Result of a mosquito bite
Revolutionary French marshal's money
Rhode Island's motto
River swallows up golf drive
Satyr's feeling
Scratch it!
Scratcher's target
Second of three virtues
Secretary going around with little desire for sex?
Seven-year phenomenon
Seven-Year ___ , 1955 film starring Marilyn Monroe with Tom Ewell
Skin infection
Skin irritation
Skinned bits ache and burn
Smallpox symptom
Smooth operator's secret desire
Snag: first horse is missing and must be scratched
Some people have it for l
Something brought to the
Something to scratch
Something wished for
Son of Aphrodite
Son of Chaos
Sorceress losing head causes irritation
Sorceress scratching head finds another thing to scratch
Source of irritation in Italian church
Spring came, finally producing optimism
Spur
State of extreme poverty
Statue in Piccadilly Circus
Stomach
Story describing finale to 'Lonesome Pine'
Strong desire
Strong desire to do something
Strong fancy netting required after close of play
Strong impulse
Strong impulse revealed by our gentry
Strong restless desire
Strong sexual desire
Strongly desire company doctor
Strongly desire potholer to take run-up
Strongly recommend
Strongly recommend 50% reduction in your wage
Subject for Freud
Sushi may be sold in this
Symbol of love
Symbol of love very touching, in retrospect
T-shirt ripped up in lust
Tame animal - it is eaten by wild one wanting food
Target for nails
Target for nails?
Taste a delicate starter of pâté beforehand
The hots
The libido, in psychiatry
The munchies, for one
The old name for money
Thirst
Thirst (for)
Thirst for
Thought before blowing ou
Time taken to orbit sun? Primarily not long!
Tokyo dough
Trigger finger problem?
Troubadour's inspiration
Try to persuade
Twist the arm of
Uncomfortable skin sensation
Upset angry God
Urge
Urge charming female to go topless
Valentine's Day visitor
Variable goal in short for a currency abroad
Want
Want badly
Want badly, with "for"
Want business to take on old soldier
Want quiet in garden
Want something belonging to another
Want time to go to bay
Want what someone else has
Way below half of 13 yen
Well product?
Western worker's deficiency
What a wool shirt can do
What an addict fights
What an optimist always h
Where the NEAR space prob
Wife lives on Henry's whim
Wife lives with hot desire
Winged Greek god
Winged statue thus about to be erected?
Winged youth of myth
Wish
Wish for
Wish to drive out without parking
Women’s group’s hot desire
Word before and after "ag
Word on a 2008 Obama post
Wound up seeing statue's name
Yearn (for)
Yearn for
Yearn to possess
Yearning
Yen
Yorkshire banker entertains good egg

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