8-Letter Words Starting: STEM

• (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

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

• cylinder forming a long narrow part of something

• the tube of a tobacco pipe

• front part of a vessel or aircraft

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

• grow out of, have roots in, originate in

• cause to point inward

• stop the flow of a liquid

• remove the stem from

• Drinking glasses that have a stem, such as wine glasses or champagne flutes.

• A family tree or recorded genealogy

• In the study of stemmatics, a diagram showing the relationship of a text to its manuscripts

• One of the types of simple eyes in arthropods

• a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

• a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers

• an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

• a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge

• a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples)

• not having a stem

• (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground