Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word stem. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in stem.
Definitions and meaning of stem
stem
Pronunciation
enPR: stĕm, IPA(key): /stɛm/
Rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishstem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old Englishstemn, from Proto-Germanic*stamniz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-(“to stand, stay”).
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
A branch of a family.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
(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.
1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
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.
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.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(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.
(slang) A person's leg.
2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
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) The penis.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
Synonyms:tail, (obsolete)virgula
(music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
(cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
(anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
(slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
(chiefly Britain) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stem” in the Collins English Dictionary
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple presentstems, present participlestemming, simple past and past participlestemmed)
To remove the stem from.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
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 […]
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
(to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishstemmen, a borrowing from Old Norsestemma(“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danishstemme/stæmme(“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic*stammijaną. Cognate with Germanstemmen, Middle Dutchstemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple presentstems, present participlestemming, simple past and past participlestemmed)
(transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
to stem a tide
[They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
(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.
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
Alternative form of steem
Etymology 4
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Noun
stem (pluralstems)
Alternative form of STEM
2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
Further reading
stem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
stem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “stem”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɛm/
Etymology 1
From Dutchstem, from Middle Dutchstemme, from Old Dutch*stemma, from Proto-Germanic*stebnō, *stamnijō.
Noun
stem (pluralstemme)
vote
voice
Etymology 2
From Dutchstemmen.
Verb
stem (presentstem, present participlestemmende, past participlegestem)
to vote
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutchstemme, from Old Dutch*stemma, from Proto-Germanic*stebnō, *stamnijō. Under influence of Latin vox(“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /stɛm/
Hyphenation: stem
Rhymes: -ɛm
Noun
stemf (pluralstemmen, diminutivestemmetjen)
voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
the ability to speak
vote
(obsolete) word
(phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
Derived terms
foertstem
proteststem
Descendants
Afrikaans: stem
Negerhollands: stem
→ Indonesian: setem
→ Papiamentu: stèm
→ Sranan Tongo: sten
Verb
stem
first-person singular present indicative of stemmen
imperative of stemmen
Anagrams
mest, mets
Latin
Verb
stem
first-person singular present active subjunctive of stō