Answer to "Foundations" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BASES which also is the latest solution we found used in USA Today in 2020.

Foundations crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BASES	77 %	5
BEDS	15 %	4
SUBSTRATA	8 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Foundations

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• basis
• groundwork
• base
• fundament
• origination
• creation
• founding
• initiation
• institution
• instauration
• substructure
• understructure

Crossword Answer definitions

BASES noun

1. Something from which other things extend; a foundation.
2. The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.
3. A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.
4. The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.
5. A basic but essential component or ingredient.
6. A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.
7. Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.
8. Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.
9. Important areas in games and sports.
10. The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.
11. A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.
12. The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.
13. The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
14. The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.
15. The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.
16. The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.
17. A number raised to the power of an exponent.
18. The set of sets from which a topology is generated.
19. A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.
20. A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.
21. (acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.
22. A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.
23. The smallest kind of cannon.
24. The housing of a horse.
25. (in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
26. The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
27. An apron.
28. A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
29. A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.
30. The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.
31. A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.
32. Short for base leg.

BASES verb

1. To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
2. To be located (at a particular place).
3. (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

BASES noun

1. A low spectrum of sound tones.
2. A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.
3. One who sings in the bass range.
4. An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.
5. The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.

BASES noun

1. A root.
2. A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
3. The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

BASES noun

1. A physical base or foundation.
2. A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
3. An underlying condition or circumstance.
4. A regular frequency.
5. In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
6. Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
7. A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.

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More clues leading to the result BEDS

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More clues leading to the result SUBSTRATA

• Underlying layers
• Foundations