flooring

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: floor=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

flooring, n. 

•  A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
•  Material for the construction of a floor or floors.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flooring, n. the boards etc. of which a floor is made.

THESAURUS

flooring

adobe, ashlar, base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, clinker, concrete, cover, covering materials, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, earth, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, lath and plaster, masonry, mat, mortar, parquet, pave, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat, siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, walling, welcome mat