- 窮屈【きゅうくつ】 - narrow, tight, cramped, formal, stiff, strict, ceremonious, rigid, constrained, uncomfortable, tight (e.g. finances) 
- 窮地【きゅうち】 - dilemma, predicament 
- 困窮【こんきゅう】 - poverty, need, destitution, having great difficulty with, struggling greatly with, being in distress 
- 窮乏【きゅうぼう】 - poverty, destitution, privation, indigence, penury 
- 窮状【きゅうじょう】 - distress, wretched condition 
- 窮余【きゅうよ】 - extremity, desperation