Nouns

(n)root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed“thematic vowels are part of the stem”
(n)stalk, stema slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
(n)shank, stemcylinder forming a long narrow part of something
(n)stemthe tube of a tobacco pipe
(n)bow2, fore, prow, stemfront part of a vessel or aircraft“he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line”
(n)stem turn, stema turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

Verbs

(v)stemgrow out of, have roots in, originate in“The increase in the national debt stems from the last war”
(v)stemcause to point inward“stem your skis”
(v)stem, stanch, staunch, haltstop the flow of a liquid“staunch the blood flow”, “stem the tide”
(v)stemremove the stem from“for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed”