Lack

Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.

To blame; to find fault with.

To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.

To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.

To be in want.

Exclamation of regret or surprise.

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"