Answer to "Part of a word" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STEM , but the solution may also be PREFIX which is one of the most recent solution (1967 in New York Times).

Part of a word crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
STEM	50 %	4
PREFIX	25 %	6
SYLLABLE	25 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Part of a word

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• root
• base
• stem
• bulb
• radiate
• crown
• radial
• boot
• collar
• acyclic
• disc
• cyclic

Crossword Answer definitions

STEM noun

1. The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
2. A branch of a family.
3. An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
4. The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
5. A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
6. A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
7. The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
8. A person's leg.
9. The penis.
10. A vertical stroke of a letter.
11. A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
12. A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
13. The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
14. A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork
15. A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
16. A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
17. (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism

STEM verb

1. To remove the stem from.
2. To be caused or derived; to originate.
3. To descend in a family line.
4. To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
5. To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
6. To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.

STEM verb

1. To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
2. To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.

STEM noun

1. A gleam of light; a flame.

STEM noun

1. Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.

STEM noun

1. An electron microscope that transmits a very narrow beam of electrons through a sample; it can detect individual large or heavy atoms.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result STEM

• Derive from
• Bud supporter
• Flower holder
• Pipe part
• Stern's other end?
• Watch part
• Wine glass feature
• Wine glass part
• Bloom supporter
• Check

More clues leading to the result PREFIX

• Homo or trans
• In or out, at times
• Part of a word.
• Pro- or con-
• Attach before
• Anti or semi, e.g.
• Tri for one
• Pre is one
• Add beforehand
• "Anti" or "semi," e.g.

More clues leading to the result SYLLABLE

• Either half of Philly
• One of an iamb's two
• One of seven in this clue
• "Cap" or "tain," in "captain"
• Word chunk
• There's only one in Maine
• Penult is one.
• Part of a word.
• Word part
• Word unit