hankering

kaipaus, halu, kaipuu (present participle of)
2008 May 23, James Graff, "http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808953,00.html Lost: Labour's Love for Brown," Time:

There is a clear sense that Britain is hankering for a change at the top.

I found that he had dipped a little in chimerical studies and had a hankering after astrology and alchymy.

Mike says he even likes to talk to him and run after him, but he has a hankering that Moore should be made an example of.

One may say that hankering after naughty things is the very essence of the evil into which we have been precipitated by Adam's fall.

"Some people are fond of a stay-at-home life, but I always had a hankering after adventures."

In other words, some species of human ancestor . . . not only had a hankering for meat, which scientists had not expected, but used tools to get it.