arrangement
background
base
basement
basic training
basis
bearing wall
bed
bedding
bedrock
bottom
briefing
clearing the decks
cornerstone
equipment
familiarization
fixing
floor
flooring
fond
footing
foundation
fundament
fundamental
ground
grounds
hardpan
infrastructure
makeready
making ready
manufacture
mobilization
pavement
planning
prearrangement
preliminaries
preliminary
preliminary act
preliminary step
prep
preparation
preparatory study
preparing
prepping
prerequisite
pretreatment
principle
processing
readying
starting-point
underpin
underpinnings