underground lab
Basement for forbidden experiments
An underground lab is a clandestine facility for illegal manufacturing, typically of drugs like methamphetamine or fentanyl: Police raided an underground lab in the basement of an abandoned warehouse.
The term emphasizes secrecy rather than literal subterranean location—these operations hide from authorities in warehouses, rural properties, or residential buildings.
In fiction and gaming, underground labs are secret research facilities where sinister experiments occur.
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- black siteSecret extrajudicial detention facility
- secretConcealed information
- top secretHighest classification level
- experimentSystematic investigation procedure
scientist · mad scientist · chemicals · hidden · off the grid · basement · facility · government facility · covert · classified research
- Laboratoriesflasks, lab notebook, beakers, science lab, lab technician
- underground spacesbasement, cellar, cave, cavern, tunnel
- secret lairslair, hideout, hidden chamber, fortress, dungeon
- research facilitieslab, laboratories, laboratory, labs, research center
- Neutrinosantineutrino, antineutrinos
underground labpublic institution
Government-run organization serving citizens
underground, under, ground, grounded, grounding, grounds, groundless, undergrounds