食べ物: food in general; a specific food; one's diet

食い物: food; a sexual partner; a patsy, someone tricked into being used for someone else's gain

食い物: to cook, to prepare food

(rare, possibly obsolete) 食らい物: food and beverage

(rare, possibly obsolete) 食み物: food; more specifically, fodder or feed for animals

(rare, possibly obsolete, formal honorific) 食し物: (rare) food and beverage

bacterium, germ, microbe / fungus

to become infected, to catch

water (sometimes cold and/or fresh) / drinking water / a fluid, liquid / a flood / (sumo) Short for 水入り (mizuiri): halting

(pathology) hog cholera