Essential - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 12/12/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Essential.

10 letter answer(s) to essential

IMPERATIVE
  1. a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
  2. relating to verbs in the imperative mood
  3. requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
  4. some duty that is essential and urgent

13 letter answer(s) to essential

INDISPENSABLE
  1. absolutely necessary; vitally necessary; "essential tools and materials"; "funds essential to the completion of the project"; "an indispensable worker"
  2. not to be dispensed with; essential; "foods indispensable to good nutrition"
  3. unavoidable; "the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state"

8 letter answer(s) to essential

INHERENT
  1. existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth"
  2. in the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning"
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9 letter answer(s) to essential

INTRINSIC
  1. belonging to a thing by its very nature; "form was treated as something intrinsic, as the very essence of the thing"- John Dewey
  2. situated within or belonging solely to the organ or body part on which it acts; "intrinsic muscles"
NECESSARY
  1. absolutely essential
  2. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
  3. unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"

3 letter answer(s) to essential

KEY
  1. (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court; "he hit a jump shot from the top of the key"; "he dominates play in the paint"
  2. a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
  3. a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access; "a safe-deposit box usually requires two keys to open it"
  4. a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin"
  5. a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
  6. a list of answers to a test; "some students had stolen the key to the final exam"
  7. a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
  8. a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
  9. any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
  10. harmonize with or

4 letter answer(s) to essential

NEED
  1. a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs"
  2. a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
  3. anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"
  4. have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
  5. have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
  6. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  7. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for t

6 letter answer(s) to essential

NEEDED
  1. have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
  2. have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
  3. necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"
  4. require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"

5 letter answer(s) to essential

VITAL
  1. Critical
  2. Essential to maintain life
  3. full of spirit;
  4. manifesting or characteristic of life; "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs"
  5. Necessary
  6. performing an essential function in the living body; "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise"
  7. urgently needed; absolutely necessary; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest"

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A major, maybe extremely kamikaze, back in army
A or E, but not I
Absolutely essential
Absolutely necessary
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Answer sheet
Articulated joint performed as required
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Basic
Basic - unadorned
Basic issue recalled about stuff, including redundancy, primarily
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Be short of
Beat outlaw with an awl-tip to show who's boss
Beggary
Behind this door, books are essential
Bit of Florida
Born and died in poverty
Brooks's direction waiving unneeded extras
C minor, for one
Call for
Called for
Can't do without
Change of scenery, as needed
Characteristic of life
Charity's calculation
Chief
Church ___
Code breaker
Codebreaker's discovery
Common item in a purse
Compulsory
Crave
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Critical
Critically important
Crucial
Crucial as Poins is in effect loveless
Crucial withdrawal of speculative cases
Crucial; island
Cry out for
Cryptographer's aid
Cryptographer's need
Deficiency
Desideratum
Destitution
Dialogue tense on very right-wing channel
Difficulty, so to speak
Distress
Don't say it's obligatory
E minor, e.g.
E or G, e.g.
Elaborate rhinestone not so natural
Emergency
Enter, for one
Essential - as scenery
Essential - lively
Essential scenes shot before virgin blows top
Essential unlikely to be provided by chemist?
Exigency
Existing in something as a permanent attribute
F or G, but not H
Financial aid criterion
Financial aid factor
Five Italians, not half lively
Florida island
Full of life
G, e.g., but not H
Girl maintaining it's indispensable
Grant basis
Grant consideration
Grant criterion, often
Had to have
Have to have
Hotelier's handout
I’ve built with a permit - it's essential
If ___ be
Ignition starter
Impecuniosity
Important
Important access tool
Important place to handle cargo, we hear
Important time to plug bottle
Indigence
Indispensable
Inherent
Inherent, essential
Innate
Integral
It may be urgent
It's more than a desire
Item with a magnetic stri
Key
Key component of speculative returns
Lack
Legend in dock according to hearsay
Life-or-death
Like some organs
Like some signs and stati
Like some statistics
Like yardage on a fourth
List of test answers
Little Valerie describing information technology as crucial
Lock opener
Lock-opener
Miss Norway enjoyed exhibition dance, initially
More than desire
Must have
Must-have
Must-have item
Native
Native names will encapsulate this place in it
Natural home — this place, supported by National Trust
Necessary
Necessity
Needful
New European editor repeatedly called for
News cut by half editor repeatedly called for
Not just desire
Not optional
Number of streams is not extravagant
Obligatory
Of crucial importance
Of great importance
One of 88 on an eighty-ei
One's leader is spiked; two editors required
Opener
Organ piece
Penury
Pivotal
Plain, nothing to excite cockney
Popular coach, when heart deficient, so essential
Popular plan, besides, crazy but essential
Popular writer's wearing fur after initially deeming it essential
Poverty
Prerequisite
Rambling, wanting company - that's natural
Reason for a donation
Relations stuck in loo, turning key
Reportedly worked flour into dough, as required
Require
Require Anne Reed to appear in regular instalments
Require key to get into flipping study!
Require massage, reportedly
Require(ment)
Require; want
Required
Required for reporter, any editors
Required north-east editor (twice!)
Required, necessary
Required, wanted
Required: E, N and D, sorted in various quantities
Requirement
Requirement none expected when being extremely selective
Requisite
Safe box opener
Scholarship basis
Scholarship consideration
Scholarship criterion
Securing it, John turned key
Shortage
Significant
Sine qua non
Something nice to feel
Speck in the ocean
Straits
Swipe card alternative
Take lead off vizsla wagging tail - essential
Thing on a ring
Trainee dentist’s concealing inadequacy
Triage consideration
Urgently necessary
Urgently needed
Very important container contains tritium
Very important eastern part of Turkey
Vital
Vital components from empty cars seen disintegrating by a railway
Vital Geordie heads for Fleet Street?
Vitally necessary
Want
Want date on evening to turn up
Want massage reported
Want massage, reportedly
Want to handle dough while talking
Want to work dough, did you say?
Want to work on radio?
Want work on radio
Want, require
Wanted
Wanted joint passed to the audience
Wanted: leading pair of network journalists
Wanted: new editors to cover Spain
Welfare state?
What have-nots have
What’s essential — some speculative returns
Without any extras
Without any extras - fins roll
Without inessentials
Without unnecessary extras
___-to-know basis

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