Phrase Hound found 14 phrases and 15 compound words that contain stems. The most common are listed below. Open stems in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 14
- stems-and-leavesplural of stem-and-leaf: A stemplot.
- heavenly stemsplural of heavenly stem: One of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
- celestial stemsplural of celestial stem: One of the ten terms used in East Asian cultures to represent
- consonant stemsplural of consonant stem: A stem ending in a consonant.
- brain stemsplural of brain stem: The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.
- flower stemsplural of flower stem: The stem of a flower.
- o-stemsplural of o-stem: A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /o/.
- oblique stemsplural of oblique stem: A third declension found in the grammars of Latin and Ancient Greek.
- question stemsplural of question stem: In a survey or examination, the focus or salient part of a particular question that the respondent or examinee is asked to answer, excluding any additional prompts or information provided as context; often, the …
- straw stemsplural of straw stem: The fine stem of a wine glass pulled out from the material of the bowl, instead of being attached separately.
- u-stemsplural of u-stem: A word, especially a noun in Indo-European linguistics, whose stem ends in /u/.
- Mach stemsplural of Mach stem: A shock wave formed by the fusion of incident and reflected shock waves from an explosion.
- stems the rosethird-person singular simple present indicative of stem the rose: To have anal sex; to insert one's penis (stem) into another's anus (rose).
- stems the tidethird-person singular simple present indicative of stem the tide: To slow or stop the flow of something.
Compound words 15
- meristemsplural of meristem: The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
- bluestemsplural of bluestem: Any of various grasses having bluish stems, including little bluestem and big bluestem, principally in tribe Andropogoneae.
- brainstemsplural of brainstem: The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.
- diastemsplural of diastem: Intervening space; interval.
- flowerstemsplural of flowerstem: The stem of a flower.
- forestemsplural of forestem: The front part of a vessel.
- macrostemsplural of macrostem: The stem of a verb, plus any object markers preceding the stem and affixes following the stem, taken as a morphological unit.
- mainstemsplural of mainstem: The principal watercourse of a river that has multiple streams
- pipestemsplural of pipestem: The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.
- pseudostemsplural of pseudostem: A false stem made of the rolled bases of leaves.