| abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
| abstemiously | (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: temperately |
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| abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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| (noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
| biosystematic | (adjective) of or relating to biosystematics | - |
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| biosystematics | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematy |
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| biosystematy | (noun) use of data (e.g. cytogenetic or biochemical) to assess taxonomic relations especially within an evolutionary framework | Synonyms: biosystematics |
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| blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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| blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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| bluestem | (noun) tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in the United States | Synonyms: Andropogon furcatus, Andropogon gerardii, blue stem |
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| brainstem | (noun) the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | Synonyms: brain-stem, brain stem |
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| diastema | (noun) a gap or vacant space between two teeth | - |
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| distemper | (noun) a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | - |
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| (noun) a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder | - |
| (noun) an angry and disagreeable mood | Synonyms: ill humor, ill humour |
| (noun) any of various infectious viral diseases of animals | - |
| (verb) paint with distemper | - |
| ecosystem | (noun) a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | - |
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| episteme | (noun) the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time | - |
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| epistemic | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemological |
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| epistemological | (adjective) of or relating to epistemology | Synonyms: epistemic |
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| epistemologist | (noun) a specialist in epistemology | - |
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| epistemology | (noun) the philosophical theory of knowledge | - |
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| meristem | (noun) undifferentiated tissue from which new cells are formed, as at the tip of a stem or root | - |
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| servosystem | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servomechanism |
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| stem | (noun) a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it | Synonyms: stem turn |
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| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: bow, fore, prow |
| (noun) the tube of a tobacco pipe | - |
| (noun) cylinder forming a long narrow part of something | Synonyms: shank |
| (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed | Synonyms: base, radical, root, root word, theme |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, staunch |
| (verb) remove the stem from | - |
| (verb) grow out of, have roots in, originate in | - |
| (verb) cause to point inward | - |
| stemless | (adjective) not having a stem | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground | Synonyms: acaulescent |
| stemma | (noun) an eye having a single lens | Synonyms: ocellus, simple eye |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock |
| (noun) a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work | - |
| stemmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a textual stemma | - |
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| stemmatics | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatology |
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| stemmatology | (noun) the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis) | Synonyms: stemmatics |
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| stemmed | (adjective) having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) (of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground | Synonyms: caulescent, cauline |
| (adjective) having the stem removed | - |
| stemmer | (noun) a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples) | - |
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| (noun) a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge | - |
| (noun) an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem | Synonyms: stemming algorithm |
| (noun) a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers | - |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stripper |
| subsystem | (noun) a system that is part of some larger system | - |
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| system | (noun) instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity | - |
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| (noun) an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized | Synonyms: organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts | - |
| (noun) the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole | - |
| (noun) a complex of methods or rules governing behavior | Synonyms: system of rules |
| (noun) a procedure or process for obtaining an objective | - |
| (noun) an organized structure for arranging or classifying | Synonyms: arrangement, organisation, organization |
| (noun) a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole | Synonyms: scheme |
| (noun) (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium | - |
| systematic | (adjective) characterized by order and planning | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to taxonomy | Synonyms: taxonomic, taxonomical |
| systematically | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: consistently |
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| systematics | (noun) the science of systematic classification | - |
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| systematisation | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematization |
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| systematise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematize, systemise, systemize |
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| systematiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systematism | (noun) the habitual practice of systematization and classification | - |
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| systematist | (noun) a biologist who specializes in the classification of organisms into groups on the basis of their structure and origin and behavior | Synonyms: taxonomer, taxonomist |
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| (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematizer, systemiser, systemizer |
| systematization | (noun) systematic organization; the act of organizing something according to a system or a rationale | Synonyms: rationalisation, rationalization, systematisation |
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| systematize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systemise, systemize |
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| systematizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systemiser, systemizer |
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| systemic | (adjective) affecting an entire system | - |
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| systemise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemize |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| systemize | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemise |
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| systemizer | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser |
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| unsystematic | (adjective) lacking systematic arrangement or method or organization | - |
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| unsystematically | (adverb) in an unsystematic manner | - |
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| wingstem | (noun) perennial herb with showy yellow flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Actinomeris alternifolia, golden honey plant, golden ironweed, Verbesina alternifolia, yellow ironweed |
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