base
base is a valid 4-letter word worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
What does base mean?
- noun
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
a phosphoric ester of a nucleoside; the basic structural unit of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA)
- noun
a lower limit
- adjective
serving as or forming a base
- noun
the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- noun
(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- noun
the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- noun
the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area
- adjective
having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality
- noun
any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- adjective
not adhering to ethical or moral principles
- adjective
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
- noun
installation from which a military force initiates operations
- verb
use as a basis for; found on
- noun
a flat bottom on which something is intended to sit
- noun
(anatomy) the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment
- adjective
debased; not genuine
- noun
(electronics) the part of a transistor that separates the emitter from the collector
- verb
situate as a center of operations
- noun
the bottom or lowest part
- noun
the bottom side of a geometric figure from which the altitude can be constructed
- noun
the principal ingredient of a mixture
- verb
use (purified cocaine) by burning it and inhaling the fumes
- adjective
(used of metals) consisting of or alloyed with inferior metal
- noun
lowest support of a structure
- noun
a support or foundation
- noun
the most important or necessary part of something
- noun
a place that the runner must touch before scoring
- adjective
illegitimate
- noun
(numeration system) the positive integer that is equivalent to one in the next higher counting place