Scrabble & Words with friends points
- base is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 6
- base is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 6
- base is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 7
Definition of base
- a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries (noun)
Synonyms
- al-qa'ida
- al-qaeda
- al-qaida
- al qaeda
- al qaida
- qaeda
- of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense) (adjective)
Examples
- baseborn wretches with dirty faces
Synonyms
- baseborn
- humble
- lowly
- use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes (verb)
Synonyms
- free-base
- lowest support of a structure (noun)
Examples
- it was built on a base of solid rock
Synonyms
- foot
- foundation
- fundament
- groundwork
- substructure
- understructure
- a support or foundation (noun)
Examples
- the base of the lamp
Synonyms
- pedestal
- stand
- the most important or necessary part of something (noun)
Synonyms
- basis
- a place that the runner must touch before scoring (noun)
Synonyms
- bag
- illegitimate (adjective)
Synonyms
- baseborn
- (numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place (noun)
Synonyms
- radix
- a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) (noun)
Synonyms
- nucleotide
- a lower limit (noun)
Synonyms
- floor
- serving as or forming a base (adjective)
Examples
- the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
Synonyms
- basal
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained (noun)
Synonyms
- basis
- cornerstone
- foundation
- fundament
- groundwork
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed (noun)
Synonyms
- radical
- root
- root word
- stem
- theme
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end (noun)
Synonyms
- home
- the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area (noun)
Examples
- the industrial base of Japan
Synonyms
- infrastructure
- having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality (adjective)
Examples
- that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble
Synonyms
- mean
- meanspirited
- any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water (noun)
Examples
- bases include oxides and hydroxides of metals and ammonia
Synonyms
- alkali
- not adhering to ethical or moral principles (adjective)
Examples
- base and unpatriotic motives
- a base, degrading way of life
Synonyms
- immoral
- installation from which a military force initiates operations (noun)
Examples
- the attack wiped out our forward bases
Synonyms
- base of operations
- use as a basis for; found on (verb)
Examples
- base a claim on some observation
Synonyms
- establish
- found
- ground
- a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit (noun)
Examples
- a tub should sit on its own base
- (anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment (noun)
Examples
- the base of the skull
- debased; not genuine (adjective)
Examples
- an attempt to eliminate the base coinage
- (electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector (noun)
- situate as a center of operations (verb)
Examples
- we will base this project in the new lab
- the bottom or lowest part (noun)
Examples
- the base of the mountain
- the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed (noun)
Examples
- the base of the triangle
- the principal ingredient of a mixture (noun)
Examples
- glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments
- he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green
- everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base
- (used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal (adjective)
Examples
- base coins of aluminum
- a base metal
See definition of base in Merriam Webster