groundwork (n.)

• arrangement
• base
• basement
• basis
• bed
• bedding
• bedrock
• bottom
• briefing
• cornerstone
• equipment
• familiarization
• fixing
• floor
• flooring
• footing
• foundation
• fundament
• fundamental
• ground
• grounds
• hardpan
• infrastructure
• makeready
• manufacture
• mobilization
• pavement
• planning
• prearrangement
• preliminary
• prep
• preparation
• prerequisite
• principle
• processing
• propaedeutic
• provision
• radical
• readying
• root
• rudiment
• seat
• sill
• spadework
• substratum
• substructure
• training
• treatment
• trial
• tryout
• undercarriage
• understructure
• warm-up