| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 窮地 | きゅうち | dilemma, predicament |
| 窮状 | きゅうじょう | distress, wretched condition |
| 窮屈 | きゅうくつ | narrow, tight, stiff, rigid, uneasy, formal, constrained |
| 困窮 | こんきゅう | poverty, distress |
| 窮乏 | きゅうぼう | poverty |
| 窮余 | きゅうよ | extremity, desperation |
| 窮み | きわみ | height, acme, extremity |
| 窮まる | きわまる | to terminate, to reach an extreme, to take to the extreme, to be in a dilemma, to be at an end |
| 窮める | きわめる | to carry to extremes, to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly, to master |
| 窮まりない | きわまりない | extremely, in the extreme, boundless, limitless |