Definition of stem

"stem" in the noun sense

1. root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical

linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

"thematic vowels are part of the stem"

2. stalk, stem

a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ

3. shank, stem

cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

4. stem

the tube of a tobacco pipe

5. bow, fore, prow, stem

front part of a vessel or aircraft

"he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line"

6. stem turn, stem

a turn made in skiing the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

"stem" in the verb sense

1. stem

grow out of, have roots in, originate in

"The increase in the national debt stems from the last war"

2. stem

cause to point inward

"stem your skis"

3. stem, stanch, staunch, halt

stop the flow of a liquid

"staunch the blood flow"

"stem the tide"

4. stem

remove the stem from

"for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

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Quotations for stem

Welcome, dear Goldenrod, once more.
Thou mimic, flowering elm!
I always think that summer's store
Hangs from thy laden stem. [ Horace H. Scudder ]

Our dangers and delights are near allies.
From the same stem the rose and prickle rise. [ Aleyn ]

Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. [ Hafiz ]

Beauty without modesty is like a flower broken from its stem.

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. [ Percival ]

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

stem in Scrabble®

The word stem is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters stem:

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stem in Words With Friends™

The word stem is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words containing the sequence stem

Words with stem in them (138 words)

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Word Growth involving stem

Shorter words in stem

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Longer words containing stem

abstemious abstemiously

abstemious abstemiousness

blastema blastemal blastemally

blastema blastemas

blastema blastemata blastematas

blastema blastematic blastematical blastematically

blastemia

blastemic ablastemic

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brainstem brainstems

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distemper distempers

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epistemological epistemologically ontoepistemologically

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epistemologist epistemologists

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stemwinding

stemwinds

stemwound

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