base word
Linguistics
noun
A word that serves as a base form.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Neophilologus.
- contract of adhesion
- contract of location
- contractor
- contractorisation
- contractorization
- contractorize
- contractual
- contractually
- contractural
- contracture
- contradance
- contradict
- contradiction
- contradiction in terms
- contradictor
- contradictorily
- contradictoriness
- contradictory
- contradistinction
- contradistinguish
- contrafactive
- contrafactual
- contraflow
- contrail
- contraindicate