| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: chagrin, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| base | (adjective) serving as or forming a base | Synonyms: basal |
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| (adjective) debased; not genuine | - |
| (adjective) having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | Synonyms: mean, meanspirited |
| (adjective) illegitimate | Synonyms: baseborn |
| (adjective) (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal | - |
| (adjective) of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) | Synonyms: baseborn, humble, lowly |
| (adjective) not adhering to ethical or moral principles | Synonyms: immoral |
| (noun) a support or foundation | Synonyms: pedestal, stand |
| (noun) lowest support of a structure | Synonyms: foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure |
| (noun) a place that the runner must touch before scoring | Synonyms: bag |
| (noun) (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector | - |
| (noun) installation from which a military force initiates operations | Synonyms: base of operations |
| (noun) a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit | - |
| (noun) the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area | Synonyms: infrastructure |
| (noun) the principal ingredient of a mixture | - |
| (noun) the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained | Synonyms: basis, cornerstone, foundation, fundament, groundwork |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: radical, root, root word, stem, theme |
| (noun) a lower limit | Synonyms: floor |
| (noun) (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment | - |
| (noun) the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end | Synonyms: home |
| (noun) the bottom or lowest part | - |
| (noun) (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place | Synonyms: radix |
| (noun) the most important or necessary part of something | Synonyms: basis |
| (noun) the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed | - |
| (noun) any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water | Synonyms: alkali |
| (noun) a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) | Synonyms: nucleotide |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: establish, found, ground |
| (verb) use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes | Synonyms: free-base |
| (verb) situate as a center of operations | - |
| database | (noun) an organized body of related information | - |
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| debase | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content | Synonyms: alloy |
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| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, dilute, load, stretch |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| fanbase | (noun) All of the fans or devotees of something | - |
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| firebase | (noun) an artillery base to support advancing troops | - |
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| gynobase | (noun) the enlarged receptacle in which the pistil is borne | - |
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| isobase | (noun) a line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant land upheaval. | - |
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| subbase | (noun) the lowest molding of an architectural base or of a baseboard | - |
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| surbase | (noun) the molding or border above the base of a structure (a pedestal or podium or wall) | - |
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| wheelbase | (noun) the distance from the center of a car's front wheel to the rear axle | - |
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