maintenance (n.)

• age
• aid
• alimentation
• alimony
• allowance
• antiquity
• backing
• bread
• care
• carriage
• conservancy
• conservation
• constancy
• continuance
• continuation
• continuity
• contribution
• durability
• duration
• endowment
• endurance
• extension
• holding
• inhibition
• keep
• keeping
• lastingness
• lengthening
• livelihood
• living
• longevity
• manna
• meat
• nourishment
• nurture
• perdurability
• perennation
• permanence
• perpetuation
• perpetuity
• perseverance
• persistence
• prehension
• preservation
• progress
• progression
• prolongation
• protection
• protraction
• provision
• pursuance
• reliance
• repetition
• repression
• retention
• retentiveness
• retentivity
• run
• safekeeping
• salt
• salvage
• salvation
• saving
• stability
• standing
• steadfastness
• stipend
• subsidization
• subsidy
• subsistence
• subvention
• support
• suppression
• survival
• sustainment
• sustenance
• sustentation
• tenacity
• treat
• upkeep
• way