Scrabble and Words with Friends

• STEM is a valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• STEM is a valid Words with Friends word worth 7 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• STEM is a 4 letter word containing the letters e, m, s, t.

Definitions

• stem

  noun (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
  thematic vowels are part of the stem

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• stem

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

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• stem

  noun cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

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• stem

  noun the tube of a tobacco pipe

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• stem

  noun front part of a vessel or aircraft

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• stem

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

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• stem

  verb grow out of, have roots in, originate in
  The increase in the national debt stems from the last war

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• stem

  verb cause to point inward
  stem your skis

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• stem

  verb stop the flow of a liquid
  stem the tide

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• stem

  verb remove the stem from
  for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed

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• Lookup STEM using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

Synonyms

Words that sound like 'stem'

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