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STEMS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

STEMS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

STEMS root STEM-s

Word family

STEM 1 STEMMING-ming 11 STEMMED-med 5

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STEMMINGS 11
noun
  1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
  2. A branch of a family.
  3. A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
  4. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
  5. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
  6. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
    • the stem of an apple or a cherry
  7. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
  8. The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
  9. slangA person's leg.
  10. slangThe penis.
  11. A vertical stroke of a letter.
  12. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
  13. A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
  14. The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
  15. broadlyThe front part of a vessel.
    • from stem to stern
  16. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
  17. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
  18. slangA crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
  19. UKA winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
  20. alternativeAlternative form of steem.
  21. alternativeAlternative form of STEM.
  22. alternativeAlternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
verb
  1. To remove the stem from.
    • to stem cherries; to stem tobacco leaves
  2. To be caused or derived; to originate.
    • The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
  3. To descend in a family line.
  4. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
  5. obsoleteTo hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
  6. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
  7. transitiveTo stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
    • to stem a tide
  8. To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
  9. To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.