Baseboard

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: base=board

CIDE DICTIONARY

Baseboard, n. 

 A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Baseboard, n. US a skirting-board.

ROGET THESAURUS

Baseboard

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.