The word "understructure" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun which refers to the foundational framework or substructure of something, particularly a building. For example, "The understructure of the bridge had to be reinforced after the heavy storms."
This re-feudalization of northern China, along Mongol lines with a slight understructure of Chinese-type bureaucrats, lasted for many years.
The suspension and understructure are shared with the new Toyota Verso MPV and, as configured for the Prius, they underpin a car with smooth, accurate steering, a supple ride and a fluent demeanour.
In it, Ford said: When I wrote The Sportswriter, I was writing with a loose understructure that only I knew about and that probably isn't detectable by the reader.
But, as Ford said in his interview, it's not the surface qualities but the "understructure" of his story that is connected to Slocum's.
Up the road, and this is a major thoroughfare, the asphalt is coming away from the understructure of a bridge.
"It was a real challenge to cast the understructure directly into the resin, which we'd never done before".
"Elizabeth gave us pretty detailed drawings, with the metal understructure visible from above the tabletop," said Karen Atta, of Atta Inc., the workshop at 450 West 31st Street that made the tables.
"The understructure was a compete disaster, pilings were loose, joints and beams were rotting.
Shot at random on long rides through southern and western parts of the United States, they encompass ribbons of road, bleak or plowed fields, bare trees, rutted snow, telephone poles, a bridge understructure, a distant railroad crossing sign.
They took "those turbulent seethings, those emotional surges from the innermost being — that is to say, that vague turmoil of the soul's bodily understructures — to be the language of the eternal by which all men can be united".
For the most part the paintings in this show, his 17th solo gallery exhibition in New York since 1972, depict the understructures of bridges and highways around Manhattan or abandoned sites in the high desert of southwest Texas, around Presidio or nearby Marfa.
