12-letter words containing stem
- abstemiously — sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
- alarm system — a set of electronic devices that trigger an alarm
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- block system — the system whereby a railway is divided up into separate sections of track where only one train can travel at a time
- boehm system — a system of improved fingering and keying for the flute and clarinet, invented by the German musician Theobald Boehm (1794–1881).
- buddy system — (in swimming and scuba diving) the practice of pairing swimmers, each being responsible for the other's safety.
- caste system — the division of Hindu society into four major hereditary classes
- chronosystem — A pattern of events and transitions over the course of a person's life.
- class system — a system in which social status is largely determined by the family into which a person is born
- cryptosystem — a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.
- distemperate — (obsolete) immoderate.
- distemperoid — resembling distemper.
- epistemology — The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. Epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion.
- fixed system — a system of solmization which assigns the names ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, si (or ti) to the degrees of the major scale of C
- hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
- honor system — a system whereby the students at a school, the inmates in a prison, etc., are put on their honor to observe certain rules in order to minimize administrative supervision or to promote honesty.
- isostemonous — having stamens equal in number to the sepals or petals.
- legal system — judicial structures and processes: law
- long-stemmed — having a long stem or stems: long-stemmed roses.
- lymph system — Anatomy, Zoology. the system by which lymph is returned from the cells to the blood and by which white blood cells are produced in response to inflammation or presence of antigens; in mammals, the system includes the lymph glands, vessels and sinuses through which lymph is carried, and lymphoid tissues, as bone marrow and the thymus.
- meristematic — consisting of or having the properties of meristem.
- merit system — a system or policy whereby people are promoted or rewarded on the basis of ability and achievement rather than because of seniority, quotas, patronage, or the like.
- microsystems — Plural form of microsystem.
- multistemmed — having two or more stems or trunks
- non-systemic — of or relating to a system.
- point system — Printing. a system for grading the sizes of type bodies, leads, etc., that employs the point as a unit of measurement. Compare point (def 48a).
- quota system — a system, originally determined by legislation in 1921, of limiting by nationality the number of immigrants who may enter the U.S. each year.
- servo system — a system using a servomechanism.
- solar system — the sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it.
- sound system — equipment for playing music
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- systematical — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- systematized — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
- systemically — of or relating to a system.
- systems desk — a team of people who provide help with computer problems, for example within a company or institution
- systems disk — a disk used to store computer programs, esp the basic operating programs of a computer
- touch system — a system of typing in which each finger is assigned to one or more keys, thereby enabling a person to type without looking at the keyboard.
- track system — a system whereby students are separated into different groups or classes according to test scores or relative scholastic ability, as to assure that gifted students are not inhibited by slower learners.
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- unsystematic — having, showing, or involving a system, method, or plan: a systematic course of reading; systematic efforts.
- value system — moral code, ethos
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- water system — a river and all its branches.
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