Stem is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STEM in dictionary:

VERB:
• to deprive a plant of a leaf-bearing axis
• originate in or be caused by
• remove the stems from (fruit or tobacco leaves)
• (of a boat) make headway against (the tide or current)
• stop or restrict (the flow of something)
• stop the spread or development of (something undesirable)
• slide the tail of one ski or both skis outwards in order to turn or slow down
• stop (the flow of something)
• Alt. of Steem
• To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
• To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
• To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
• To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
• grow out of, have roots in, originate in
• cause to point inward
• stop the flow of a liquid
• remove the stem from
RESIDUAL:
• science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (as an educational category)
NOUN:
• the main body or stalk of a plant or shrub, typically rising above ground but occasionally subterranean.
• the stalk supporting a fruit, flower, or leaf, and attaching it to a larger branch, twig, or stalk.
• a long, thin supportive or main section of something
• the slender part of a wine glass between the base and the bowl
• the tube of a tobacco pipe
• a rod or cylinder in a mechanism, for example the sliding shaft of a bolt or the winding pin of a watch
• a vertical stroke in a letter or musical note.
• the root or main part of a word, to which inflections or formative elements are added.
• the main line of descent of a family or nation
• a pipe used for smoking crack or opium.
• The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
• A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
• The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
• A branch of a family.
• A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
• Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
• Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
• That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
• The entire central axis of a feather.
• The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
• The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
• The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
• a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
• front part of a vessel or aircraft
• a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
• main axis of a plant, which bears the leaves, axillary buds, and flowers
• the main upright timber or metal piece at the bow of a ship, to which the ship's sides are joined at the front end
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to remove stems (ascending axes of a plant) from

Words related to STEM

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Words that contain STEM

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How to use STEM in a sentence

• The rate of improvement in the condition of the poor is not quick enough to stem the current of popular discontent.
• The stem is then eight or ten feet long below the leaves, where it is again cut.
• It fell just by the stem of a red flower that I marked well.
• BLUE FLOWER Blue flower waving in the wind, Say whose blue eyes Lift up your swaying fragile stem To the blue skies.
• When he saw Major Carteret moving disconsolately away after his futile effort to stem the torrent, Jerry made a dash for the window.
• The officers bravely strove to stem the tide of panic, but hopelessly.
• Suddenly she vibrated from stem to stern, and with a soft grating sound that was unmistakable came to rest.
• The stem then serves as a conductor or a passage for food and moisture between roots and leaves.
• It forms a bulb which contains a sort of meal, while the stem contains a juice.
• My father toiled incessantly, but the tide of ill-success and losing fortune had set steadily against him, and the attempt to stem it became daily harder and more hopeless.
• He brought out the pipe which he could neither fill nor light, but there was a certain steadying comfort in feeling its cool stem between his teeth.
• Towards obtaining this juice the underground stem or root of the plant is the part employed.
• Make a nozzle of the end of a clay pipe stem for the other end of the tube.
• When it was thoroughly ablaze Eustacia took it by the stem and waved it in the air above her head till it had burned itself out.
• His leaves were withered, and only the lifeless stem and the dry tips of his branches were left.
• In its growth it is much smaller than the former, and throws out numerous spreading branches, and seldom presents its marked leading stem.
• The stem has but one leaf, which has, as it were, two horns or points.
• The ship was covered from stem to stern with tons of powdered lava, which retained its heat for hours after it had fallen.
• Several weeks of quiet followed, the British resting after their giant efforts, whilst we prepared to stem their further advance when it should take place.
• It seems as if the Lord had struck the flower from its stem, ere any of the colors had lost their bright hue, or any leaf of fragrance.

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