Stems is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STEMS in dictionary:

VERB:
• STEM, 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
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 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 STEMS

stem6 stemmed12 stemming13

Words that contain STEMS

restems9 stemson9 systems12 diastems11 stemsons10 bluestems13 meristems13 pipestems15 brainstems14 ecosystems17 nonsystems15 subsystems17 minisystems18 photosystems22 supersystems19 intersystems17 multisystems19 cryptosystems25

How to use STEMS in a sentence

• Again, some of the coal is made up of the crushed and flattened bark, or outer coat, of the stems of plants, the inner wood of which has completely decayed away.
• On warm hill-sides its stems are ripe by the twenty-third of August.
• They have very long underground stems, which go through and through the dry, loose sand.
• The willows were short, slender poles with stems so close together that they almost touched, and with the leafy foliage forming a thick covering.
• The most remarkable things in this garden are two vine- stocks, whose stems were each a foot in diameter.
• Ordinarily, however, it is sought for by splitting open those bamboo stems which give a rattling sound when shaken.
• In any but the younger stems, the bark is composed of an inner, live layer, and an outer or dead portion.
• When the plants appear, hoe the ground between, draw a little fine earth to the stems, and leave the rest to Nature.
• The natives take them by springs fastened to the stems.
• More than 100 stems have been produced by one plant, but under conditions the most favorable.
• Much care is necessary when it is being cured to prevent loss in the leaves, and when cured the stems are so brittle that it is difficult to prevent waste in handling the hay.
• The bright, shimmering stems of twenty batteries, each of five stamps, were marking time before their eyes like, a row of steel soldiers.
• Payne went ahead at first, walking sidewise, throwing his shoulder against the brittle stems and crashing a path through.
• Lovely flowers grew in luxuriance, and, lest people should pass the most beautiful without noticing them, peals of silver bells were tied to their stems.
• Draw the design upon the satin, and work in embroidery-stitch, the leaves with the shades of green, the stems with the shades of olive, and the grapes with the beads.
• They should have fine round heads of foliage, clean stems, and no weeds or underwood below, nor a single dead branch above.
• It has sixty stems, or dropped branches that have taken root.
• A tall column or two surmounted with graceful garden-vases were covered about with raspberry-vines, the stems of brilliant scarlet showing among the green.
• Big boughs or the stems of small trees were placed together in the form of an A with the ends resting on the ground.
• The long stems twined round the gable, on which there hung a small bell.
• It was so cool and sweet that she held it there a moment before she slipped out of bed and ran across the room to thrust the long stems into the water pitcher.
• Look over, and then put stems and all in a porcelain-lined kettle.

Similar words containing STEM without suffix s

stem6 steme7 restem8 stemed9 stemes8 stemma10 stemme10 stemmy13 system11 diastem10 restems9 stembok15 steming10 stemlet9 stemmas11 stemmed12 stemmer11 stemmes11 stempel11 stemple11 stemson9 systems12 blastema12 bluestem12 diastema11 diastems11 meristem12 pipestem14 stemboks16 stembuck18 stemhead14 stemless10 stemlets10 stemlike14 stemmata12 stemmers12 stemmery15 stemmier12 stemming13 stempels12 stemples12 stemsons10 stemware13 systemed14 systemic15 blastemal13 blastemas13 blastemic15 bluestems13 brainstem13 destemper14 diastemas12 distemper14 ecosystem16 epistemic15 meristems13 mistemper15 nonsystem14 penstemon13 pipestems15 restemmed14 stembucks19 stemheads15 stemmatic15 stemmiest13 stemmings14 stemwares14 subsystem16 systemics16 systemise14 systemize23 unstemmed14 abstemious14 agrostemma15 blastemata14 brainstems14 destempers15 diastemata13 distempers15 ecosystems17 epistemics16 eriostemon12 gynostemia16 minisystem17 mistempers16 nonsystems15 penstemons14 pentstemon14 restemming15 stemmatous14 stemmeries14 stemwinder16 subsystems17 systematic17 systemised16 systemiser15 systemises15 systemized25 systemizer24 systemizes24 systemless15 tastemaker16 unsystemic17 agrostemmas16 blastematic17 callistemon15 destempered17 diastematic16 distempered17 eriostemons13 gynostemium19 intersystem16 minisystems18 mistempered18 multisystem18 nonsystemic18 pentstemons15 photosystem21 stemwinders17 supersystem18 systematics18 systematise16 systematism18 systematist16 systematize25 systemisers16 systemising17 systemizers25 systemizing26 tastemakers17 abstemiously19 agrostemmata17 callistemons16 destempering18 distemperate17 distempering18 epistemology20 isostemonous14 meristematic18 mistempering19 multistemmed19 photosystems22 supersystems19 systematical19 systematised18 systematiser17 systematises17 systematisms19 systematists17 systematized27 systematizer26 systematizes26 systemically22 unsystematic19 cryptosystem24 intersystems17 multisystems19 nonsystemics19 biosystematic22 epistemically22 nonsystematic20 postembryonal22 postembryonic24 postemergence20 postemergency23 resystematise18 resystematize27 systematician20 systematisers18 systematising19 systematizers27 systematizing28 systematology22 systemisation18 systemization27 undistempered19 cryptosystems25 abstemiousness18 biosystematics23 biosystematist21 diplostemonous19 distemperature19 epistemologies19 epistemologist19 haplostemonous21 resystematised20 resystematises19 resystematized29 resystematizes28 systematically24 systematicians21 systematicness21 systemisations19 systemizations28 unsystematical21 unsystematised20 unsystematized29 biosystematists22 distemperatures20 epistemological22 epistemologists20 resystematising21 resystematizing30 systematisation20 systematization29 systematologies21 abstemiousnesse19 systematicnesse22 meristematicall21 unsystematicall22 abstemiousnesses20 unsystematically26 systematizations30 systematicnesses23 meristematically25 epistemologically27

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