basement |
the lowermost space in a building, usu. partly underground. |
blowhole |
a vent for air or gases, as from an underground tunnel. [1/3 definitions] |
bulb |
a plant bud that begins to grow underground. [1/3 definitions] |
bunker |
in warfare, a partially underground fortification from which soldiers can fire weapons. [1/5 definitions] |
burial |
the act or process of putting something underground, esp. a dead body. |
cable railway |
a system of transportation in which enclosed passenger cars, pulled by a continuously moving underground cable, roll along rails. |
catacomb |
(usu. pl.) an underground burial tunnel, lined by recesses for the tombs. [1/2 definitions] |
cave |
an underground storage chamber, esp. a wine cellar. [1/4 definitions] |
cave-in |
a collapse inward, as of the walls of an underground mine. |
cellar |
a room or rooms wholly or partly underground and usu. beneath a building; basement. [1/4 definitions] |
corm |
a thickened underground stem acting as a storage tissue and source of new leafy shoots, as in crocuses. |
crypt |
a burial chamber or underground vault, esp. one beneath a church. |
digger wasp |
any of various wasps that paralyze spiders and other prey with their stingers, then lay eggs on them in underground nests. |
divining rod |
a forked stick used by dowsers to search for underground water; dowsing rod. |
dowse |
to search with a divining rod for underground water or minerals. |
dowser |
a person who uses a divining rod to search for underground water; water witch. |
dungeon |
a jail or jail cell, esp. a dark, damp one underground. |
earthnut |
any of various plants, such as the peanut or truffle, that bear edible underground tubers, enlarged roots, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |
extravasate |
to cause (molten lava) to flow forth from an underground source. [2/4 definitions] |
gallery |
an underground passageway, as in a mining system. [1/7 definitions] |
groundnut |
any of several plants having edible underground nuts or tubers, such as the peanut. |