Word Meanings - UNDERSTAIRS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The basement or cellar.

Related words: (words related to UNDERSTAIRS)

• CELLARIST
  See CELLARER
• BASEMENT
  The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 .) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively. Basement membrane , a delicate membrane composed of a
• CELLAR
  A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.
• CELLARAGE
  1. The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak. 2. Chare for storage in a cellar.
• CELLARET
  A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
• CELLARER
  A steward or butler of a monastery or chapter; one who has charge of procuring and keeping the provisions.
• OCELLARY
  Of or pertaining to ocelli.
• ABASEMENT
  The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
• EMBASEMENT
  Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.
• SUBCELLAR
  A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
• CYCLONE CELLAR; CYCLONE PIT
  A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.
• PROCELLARIAN
  One of a family of oceanic birds including the petrels, fulmars, and shearwaters. They are often seen in great abundance in stormy weather.
• CANCELLAREAN
  Cancellarean.
• DEBASEMENT
  The act of debasing or the state of being debased. Milton.
• SALTCELLAR
  Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.
• SELF-ABASEMENT
  1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act. 2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.
• PEDICELLARIA
  A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel.