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Is stem a Scrabble word?

Yes, stem is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of stem?

Definition

noun (English)

1. A branch of a family.

2. (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.Examples: "After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem."; "He had placed her upon the grass by now, her back resting against the stem of a huge tree. At her question he stepped back where he could the better see her face."

3. (linguistics) 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.Examples: "The praenomen and nomen for the most part consisted of simple stems with the suffix -us or -ius, which correspond to some of the contracted forms in other languages […]."

4. (slang) A person's leg.Examples: "She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he'd ever seen on someone so dang diminutive."slang

5. (slang) The penis.Examples: "Waves of ecstasy roll through him as the moustachioed Casanova slides his stem in and out of the spaced-out chick."slang

6. (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.

verb (English)

1. (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.Examples: "As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […]"obsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).Examples: "to stem a tide"; "[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts."; "Stemm'd the wild torrent of a barbarous age."transitive

2. (skiing) 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.

noun (English)

1. (countable, physics) Acronym of scanning transmission electron microscope.abbreviationacronymalt-ofcountable

2. (uncountable, education) Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.Examples: "Although these six classifications of the scope and responsibility and specific engineering expertise are interesting and useful, they come from within engineering itself and they don’t help us to disentangle STEM."; "Table 7 shows that in general, the STEM subjects share more phrases with each other, while the opposite is true for the humanities subjects."; "Despite wide efforts to encourage more girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM, a new survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found Gen Z girls significantly lag behind boys in the level of interest expressed in STEM subjects, suggesting more must be done to close the gender gap."abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "stem"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "stem"?

Scrabble
6 points
S1
T1
E1
M3
Words With Friends
7 points
S1
T1
E1
M4

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