| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|
| 理屈 | りくつ | theory, reason |
| 屈辱 | くつじょく | disgrace, humiliation |
| 屈指 | くっし | leading, foremost, preeminent, outstanding, one of the best |
| 屈託 | くったく | worry, care |
| 窮屈 | きゅうくつ | narrow, tight, stiff, rigid, uneasy, formal, constrained |
| 屈する | くっする | to yield, to give in, to be daunted; to bend, to shrink; to feel down |
| 屈服 | くっぷく | yielding, submission, surrender, giving way, succumbing |
| 不屈 | ふくつ | persistence, fortitude, indomitability |
| 屈折 | くっせつ | bending, indentation; refraction; inflection; warping (e.g. of opinion, reasoning, etc.), distortion |
| 卑屈 | ひくつ | menial, meanness, servility, abject |
