THESAURUS
dado
baluster, balustrade, banister, base, baseboard, basement, bezel, canal, canalize, carve, caryatid, chamfer, channel, chase, chassis, chink, chisel, colonnade, column, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cranny, crimp, cut, die, dike, ditch, engrave, engraving, flute, fluting, foot, footing, footstalk, foundation, frame, furrow, gash, goffer, gouge, groove, gully, incise, incision, jack, keel, microgroove, mopboard, nadir, newel-post, pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, pier, pilaster, pile, piling, pillar, pleat, plinth, plow, pole, post, queen-post, rabbet, rifle, rifling, ruck, rut, score, scratch, shaft, shoemold, slit, socle, sole, staff, stalk, stanchion, stand, standard, stem, streak, stria, striate, striation, subbase, sulcation, sulcus, surbase, toe, trench, trough, trunk, upright, wainscot, well-worn groove, wrinkle
ROGET THESAURUS
dado
Base
N
base, basement, plinth,
dado, wainscot, baseboard, mopboard, bedrock, hardpan, foundation, substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag, carped, ground floor, deck, footing, ground work, basis, hold, bilge, bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root, centerboard, bottom, undermost, nethermost, fundamental, founded on, based on, grounded on, built on.